Instead of opioids, an ER in New Jersey now treats many pain patients with alternatives like laughing gas, trigger-point injections and even a therapy harp.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/health/pain-treatment-er-alternative-opioids.html
Rothman adds: Lewis Nelson, who gave an excellent Grand Rounds here on opioids in June of 2013, “The New Opium War: The Epidemiology of Prescription Opiod Misuse,” is mentioned. (Click the link for full video)
“St. Joe’s is on the leading edge,” said Dr. Lewis S. Nelson, a professor of emergency medicine at New York University School of Medicine, who sat on a panel that recommended recent opioid guidelines for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “But that involved a commitment to changing their entire culture.”
