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New California Law Requires Providers to Prescribe Overdose Reversing Drug Naloxone

By Vinay Reddy on January 21, 2019 in Miscellaneous

California Assembly Bill 2760 went into effect on January 1, 2019. That bill requires providers to offer a prescription for the overdose reversing drug, naloxone, when the following conditions are present:  The prescription dosage for the patient is 90 or more ME per day; and/or  Opioid medication is prescribed concurrently with benzodiazepine; and/or The patient presents with an increased risk for overdose, including a patient with a history of overdose, a patient with a history of substance use disorder, or a patient at risk for returning to a high dose of opioid medication to which the patient is no longer […]

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Sacramento Opioid Awareness Summit

By Vinay Reddy on September 13, 2018 in Miscellaneous

The Sacramento Opioid Awareness Summit took place at Sacramento State University on September 12, 2018.  The speakers at the conference included city, county, state and national law enforcement and health officials. The clear message was that opioid prescriptions in Sacramento County and California had decreased by about 12% but there was still more work to be done.   The presenters reminded us that while the United States represents only about 5% of the world’s population, it consumes more than 80% of all opioids.  The conclusion was that opioids are dangerous, and they usually cause more problems than they solve. The following […]

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Acupuncture For Chronic Pain

By Vinay Reddy on January 9, 2018 in Miscellaneous

I recently reviewed a report on acupuncture for chronic pain. It reviewed 13 clinical randomized trials that occurred up until December 2015 and included over 20,000 patients. It compared the use of acupuncture to no acupuncture in patients or sham acupuncture, which was fake acupuncture and it found a significant difference in both pain relief and improved function in the patients using real acupuncture. It also found that the results can persist over many months. Our clinic does feel that acupuncture can be a significant beneficial modality for treatment of many types of pain. Patients can sometimes lower their pain […]

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Drug Overdose Deaths Plateau In California, Soar Nationally

By Vinay Reddy on January 6, 2018 in Miscellaneous

Please click on this link for this article by Pauline Bartolone. Drug Overdose Deaths Plateau In California, Soar Nationally This story was produced by Kaiser Health News, which publishes California Healthline, an editorially independent service of the California Health Care Foundation.

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Opioids Dependence Rates Higher than Initially Thought

By Vinay Reddy on July 11, 2017 in Miscellaneous

For years we have known that opioids (drugs such as Norco, percocet, oxycontin, morphine, fentanyl, etc.) are dangerous. They can lead to dependence and addiction. They can often also lead to overdose and death. A new study suggests that the risk is higher than previously thought. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study, released on March 17, 2017, (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6610a1.htm) evaluated the likelihood of long term opioid use by studying opioid use patterns in the U.S. between 2006-2015. The study demonstrated that patients who had one day of opioid therapy had a 6% chance of long term dependence (still […]

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If You are on Opioids, You Should Know your Morphine Equivalent Dose, by Vinay M. Reddy, M.D.

By Vinay Reddy on July 11, 2017 in Miscellaneous

Morphine Equivalent Dose (MED), also known as Morphine Milligram Equivalents (MME) is a numerical way to compare different opioids (narcotics).   For example, if person A is on 4 tablets of Norco (hydrocodone/acetaminophen) 10/325 and person B is on 4 tablets of Percocet (oxycodone/acetaminophen) 10/325, how do we know who is on a higher dose?  We can calculate the MEDs.  1mg of Hydrocodone has an MED of 1, whereas 1 mg of Oxycodone has an MED of 1.5.   Therefore, person A is on 40 MEDs per day and person B is on 60 MEDs per day. If person C is on 20 mg of oxycontin […]

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Exercise is Key to Preventing Back Pain Recurrence

By Vinay Reddy on March 21, 2016 in Miscellaneous

Most people in the Western world will suffer from disruptive lower back pain at some point in their lives.  And studies show that about 75% of people who’ve had one bout of debilitating back pain will have another within a year, which often leads to a downward spiral of pain and a weakening in the muscles of the lower back.  But there’s good news:  even if you have back pain now, a commitment to the right kind of exercise will help keep future back pain at bay, according to a broad new review published in the Journal of American Medicine Association, […]

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1 in 3 American Adults Experience Chronic Pain

By Vinay Reddy on January 26, 2015 in Diagnosis and Treatment, Miscellaneous, Prevention

An estimated 116 million adults experience chronic pain, according to a report published by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, and treatment is all too often “delayed, inaccessible, or inadequate…” according to committee chair Dr. Philip Pizzo of the Stanford University School of Medicine, who co-authored the report. The Academies’ report, Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education, and Research acknowledges that pain is more than just a physical symptom, and is not always resolved by curing the underlying disease. Chronic pain –defined as pain lasting longer than 12 weeks—is individual and “a disease […]

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Norco and Vicodin Can No Longer Be Called in or Faxed

By Dr. Reddy on September 12, 2014 in Miscellaneous

DEA Reclassifies Hydrocodone Combination Products to Schedule II On August 22, 2014, the U. S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) published the Final Rule moving hydrocodone combination products (HCPs) from Schedule III to the more-restrictive Schedule II classification.   The Final Rule in effective October 6, 2014. The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) places substances with accepted medical uses into one of four schedules, with the substances with the highest potential for harm and abuse being placed in Schedule II, and substances with progressively less potential for harm and abuse being placed in Schedules III through V.   Schedule I is reserved for those […]

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Risk of Osteoarthritis Linked to Finger Length Ratio

By Dr. Reddy on September 12, 2014 in Miscellaneous

The University of Nottingham located in the United Kingdom published a study in 2008 which looked at the role that the length of people’s fingers may play in predicting osteoarthritis. The researchers at the University of Nottingham studied more than 2,000 people.  The conclusion of the study was that people who have an index finger shorter than the ring finger are up to twice as likely to suffer from osteoarthritis.  Osteoarthritis is a general term, which refers to degeneration of joint cartilage or the bone.  This is most commonly associated with age, but some people develop it at an earlier […]

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