Tag: opioid prescription
FDA warns about withholding opioid addiction medications from patients on CNS...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is cautioning prescribers about withholding opioid addiction treatment medications from patients who are taking central nervous system...
New study links marijuana use to increased risk of opioid use...
People who use marijuana are more likely to misuse prescription painkillers and develop a prescription opioid use disorder, a new study suggests. Conducted by analysts...
Overdoses killed almost two people a day in Minnesota last year
New data revealed that an average of two people died a day from drug overdoses in Minnesota in 2016. The figures, released by the Minnesota...
Research reveals vulnerable opioid addiction treatment system
A new study has revealed that a tiny proportion of doctors are responsible for handing out the majority of treatment drugs to those battling...
Opioid overprescribing continues at high rates for the vulnerable
Growing evidence indicates that doctors are still overprescribing drugs at dangerous rates to people with a high risk of substance use disorder, a new...
How researchers want to end the opioid crisis
A new study maps out a comprehensive response to the opioid crisis, and the researchers believe it can eventually end one of the nation’s...
Opioid prescriptions three times higher in 2015 than in 1999, CDC...
Although opioid prescriptions declined year to year from 2010 to 2015 nationwide, their accessibility either continued steady or increased in more than half of...
Major opioid use linked to mental health disorders
A new study has revealed that people with anxiety or depression account for a huge portion of prescription opioid use. Only 16 percent of adults...
Treating polyneuropathy with long-term opioid therapy
Patients with pain related to polyneuropathy — dysfunction or damage to the peripheral nerves, which connect the brain and spinal cord to the rest...
The risks of long-term opioid use after surgery
Opioid prescribing after surgery regularly occurs in excess, and the risks of new long-term use are more common than previous research revealed, according to...
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