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Dr. Carole's Couch

Dr. Carole's Couch

Tuesday at 1 PM Pacific

October 31st 2017: Opioid Epidemic: Why Are We in So Much Pain?

The opioid epidemic is staggering! Opioid overdose deaths soared to over 200 percent since 2000, and at least 91 Americans die each day from an opioid OD! No wonder President Trump just declared it a public health emergency. Today's guests, Dr. Alexis Carayannopoulos and Dr. Joseph Audette, are top addiction and pain medicine experts. We follow them into the complex world of painkillers, patients, physicians and prescriptions to understand how things began spinning out of control and became the crisis it is today. You'll hear how the pendulum in medicine has changed: from doctors being encoura

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Joseph Audette, M.D.

Joseph F. Audette, M.A., M.D., earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School in 1991 and completed a residency in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York in 1995, and is board certified in PM&R and Pain.
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Alexios Carayannopoulos, M.D.

Dr. Carayannopoulos is an Osteopathic Physician who is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation as well as Pain Medicine.
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https://www.voiceamerica.com/show/1047/dr-caroles-couch 19/04/2024 06:00 19/04/2024 07:00 Dr. Carole's Couch https://www.voiceamerica.com/show/1047/dr-caroles-couch The opioid epidemic is staggering! Opioid overdose deaths soared to over 200 percent since 2000, and at least 91 Americans die each day from an opioid OD! No wonder President Trump just declared it a public health emergency. Today's guests, Dr. Alexis Carayannopoulos and Dr. Joseph Audette, are top addiction and pain medicine experts. We follow them into the complex world of painkillers, patients, physicians and prescriptions to understand how things began spinning out of control and became the crisis it is today. You'll hear how the pendulum in medicine has changed: from doctors being encouraged to be more generous with pain meds so that patients didn't suffer to their now being encouraged to withhold pain meds - and Big Brother government is counting every pill. The crisis has gotten so bad that even dogs are almost dying because of inadvertently sniffing opioids and requiring the antidote Narcan to survive. VoiceAmerica | Talk Radio | Online Talk Radio studio@voiceamerica.com false DD/MM/YYYY Add to Calendar
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