Tag: opioid prescription
Availability, legality and safety misconceptions fueled a global opioid crisis
The transition from opioid prescription pills to heroin has been well documented, but recent research shed light on the factors that have led to...
Young adults struggle with barriers to addiction treatment access
Young adults struggling with nonmedical prescription opioid substance use disorders face several barriers to addiction treatment access including patient-level barriers, provider-level barriers, health care...
Curbing abuse and overdoses through opioid stewardship
Last December, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its website with information about antibiotic stewardship -- a practice that describes a...
Emergency room physicians look for solutions to curb opioid overdoses
Emergency room physicians are often blamed for the rising number of opioid overdoses in the U.S. because they are generally the first to prescribe...
eHealth company awaits FDA approval for digital addiction therapy
The first prescription digital therapy designed to treat substance use disorder (SUD) is currently under review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Boston-...
Tech company partners with organization to prevent drug diversion
Solo Technology Holdings, LLC, developers of iKeyp, a smartphone-enabled safe designed to prevent the theft and abuse of prescription drugs, has teamed up with the...
As vets struggle with opioid abuse, VA responds with multi-pronged approach...
According to the National Center for PTSD, a branch of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), 27 percent of veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic...
Canadian opioid crisis prompts calls for public health emergency
Health care experts in Canada are calling for a public health emergency, as opioid misuse continues to swell. “The reason that the U.S. and Canada...
Oregon adopts new opioid prescribing guidelines in an effort to curb...
Oregon’s Opioid Prescribing Guidelines Task Force recently approved the adoption of state-specific opioid prescribing guidelines in order to curb the rate of opioid overdoses...
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