Episode 105 - Sickle Cell Disease and Opioids with Glinda Dames-Fincher

Prescribing and dispensing of opioids is something that we have tried to cut back on in recent years. Have we ever thought that maybe we have gone to far or are doing so at the expense of others? Glinda Dames-Fincher, an awesome patient advocate and sickle cell patient herself, joins the podcast to describe what it's like to be on the other side of the pharmacy counter with a rare disease in need of opioid pain medications. NIH/NHLBI sickle cell management guidelines: https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health-topics/evidence-based-management-sickle-cell-disease - Suggest chapters 3 & 4 here Expert Wally Smith (MD in Virginia) presented sickle cell disease webinar: https://casicklecell.org/webinar11/ Support group and non profit Kincaid's Kindred Spirits: https://www.kks4scd.org/ Glinda Dames-Fincher LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/glinda-dames-fincher-59b18413/