What To Know About The 'Razor Sore Throat' COVID Symptom | HuffPost Life

COVID infections cause miserable symptoms such as fever, fatigue, congestion and more. Now, though, some people infected with COVID in China are reporting a very sore throat that's been nicknamed "razor blade throat." …

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/razor-sore-throat-painful-covid-symptom_l_6846f28ee4b0bf9944bd1061 

 

Sickle cell disease can be deadly, and the persistent health inequities facing Black Americans worsen the problem

People with the disease frequently visit the emergency room and are hospitalized for pain control. Sometimes, these acute pain episodes are excruciating and last up to 11 days. But often, doctors and nurses do not believe their complaints and requests for strong medications to stop the pain. Instead, they may suspect drug-seeking behavior, deny them pain medicines and label them drug addicts...

https://theconversation.com/sickle-cell-disease-can-be-deadly-and-the-persistent-health-inequities-facing-black-americans-worsen-the-problem-212434

British scientist says US anti-abortion lawyers misused his work to attack Roe v Wade | Roe v Wade | The Guardian

"The Mississippi case claimed that the foetus, when aborted, is suffering. They claimed that because it is such an emotionally highly laden statement. But it is also totally untrue," he said.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/08/british-scientist-says-us-anti-abortion-lawyers-misused-his-work-to-attack-roe-v-wade

Weed withdrawal: More than half of people using medical cannabis for pain experience withdrawal symptoms

... Cannabis withdrawal symptoms usually go away within one to two weeks after use is stopped as the body adjusts back to its own natural production of cannabinoids. Unlike withdrawal from some psychoactive substances – such as alcohol – cannabis withdrawal is not life threatening or medically dangerous...

https://theconversation.com/weed-withdrawal-more-than-half-of-people-using-medical-cannabis-for-pain-experience-withdrawal-symptoms-153841

Five takeaways from the DEA’s pain pill database - The Washington Post

For the first time ever, a database maintained by the Drug Enforcement Administration that tracks the path of every single pain pill sold in the United States — from manufacturers and distributors to pharmacies in every town and city — is being made public. The data was released as part of the largest civil action in U.S. history and provides an unprecedented look at the surge of legal pain pills that fueled the prescription opioid epidemic, which resulted in nearly 100,000 deaths from 2006 through 2012.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/six-takeaways-from-the-deas-pain-pill-database/2019/07/16/1d82643c-a7e6-11e9-a3a6-ab670962db05_story.html

Michigan Republican says that abortion procedures should be 'painful' and 'God should take over' - Daily Kos

Everyone knows that God hates women who get abortions. In fact, one of the earliest books in the Hebrew Bible—Numbers—has a "pleasant" story about God's priests giving women a special "potion" that would induce an abortion. According to the Bible, it was a punishment for adultery. So, abortion bad … unless God wants it done … to punish women...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/15/1857887/-Michigan-Republican-says-that-abortion-procedures-should-be-painful-and-God-should-take-over

CBD: What It Does, Who It's For And Where It's Headed (Meghna Chakrabarti, On Point)

CBD products are all the rage. What you need to know about the marijuana ingredient that’s being used for conditions including insomnia, anxiety and epilepsy.
Interview:
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2018/09/20/cbd-oil-marijuana-industry

Self-Flagellation and the Excruciating Kiss of Jesus –Mother Teresa’s Attraction to Pain | AwayPoint

With a new Pope at the helm, the Catholic hierarchy has set about to polish its tarnished image. Can an increased focus on the poor make up for the Church’s opposition to contraception and marriage equality or its sordid financial and sexual affairs? The Bishops can only hope. And pray. And perhaps accelerate the sainthood of Agnes Gonxha, better known as Mother Teresa.....

https://valerietarico.com/2013/04/29/self-flagellation-and-the-kiss-of-jesus-mother-teresas-attraction-to-pain/

Sarah Sanders: People losing money because of Trump's trade war are just feeling 'a little bit of short-term pain' - Raw Story

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Wednesday argued that market volatility create by President Donald Trump's trade policies was only "short-term pain." ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/sarah-sanders-people-losing-money-trumps-trade-war-just-feeling-little-bit-short-term-pain/

Replacing lymph nodes to ease painful legacy of cancer care - ABC News

Breast cancer treatment left Susan Wolfe-Tank with an arm too painfully swollen to lift anything heavy or even fit into her usual clothing — a debilitating condition that gets little attention and has no cure. Desperate, the Wisconsin woman traveled hundreds of miles to seek a delicate operation — replacing under-arm lymph nodes lost in cancer surgery — as a small but growing number of hospitals offer microsurgical attempts at relief from lymphedema that help some patients but not all.....
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/replacing-lymph-nodes-ease-painful-legacy-cancer-care-51402376

Patients Who Can Legally Take Medical Cannabis More Likely To Quit Opioids, Study Finds - saludmóvil™

A new study finds that patients who can legally treat themselves with medical cannabis stop using prescription opioids or use fewer opiates to care for chronic pain symptoms.....
https://saludmovil.com/patients-who-can-legally-take-medical-cannabis-more-likely-to-quit-opioids-study-finds/

Legal Weed Is the Solution to Our Massive Painkiller Problem -- VICE

Studies show that medical marijuana laws reduce opioid prescriptions and overdose deaths. It's time to consider recreational pot, too....
https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/legal-marijuana-is-solution-to-opioid-painkiller-problem-weedweek2017