Tag: overprescription
Doctors Paid By Big Pharma Prescribe More Opioids
A new research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine, a Journal of the American Medical Association, reveals an association between doctors who received payments...
Study Suggests Fewer Refills, Higher Dosages Stop Addiction
A recent study published in the BMJ (British Medical Journal) suggests that the key to curbing rates of addiction causes by prescribed painkiller medications...
FDA’s Gottlieb Suggests Corporate-Sponsored Prescription Opioid Monitoring
The Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Scott Gottlieb, made remarks at a public workshop that suggested drug manufacturers and sellers might be required to...
A single-paragraph letter: an unlikely contributor to the opioid epidemic
Researchers say a one-paragraph letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1980 disproportionately had an effect on the opioid epidemic. The paragraph,...
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...
Prescription misuse impacts more than 70 percent of employers in the...
On March 9, the National Safety Council (NSC) released a nationwide survey showing that more than 70 percent of American employers are directly impacted...
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...
Lack of awareness puts seniors at high risk for opioid abuse
Seniors receive nearly 30 percent of all medications prescribed in the United States and make up 36 percent of the total patient population that...
The cultural perceptions of prescription and illicit drug addiction
Patterns of drug use began to change in the U.S. in the 1990s – a decade that ended with more Americans reporting they had...
Avoiding addiction to opioid painkillers
Four in five new heroin users started out misusing prescription painkillers, according to the American Society of Addiction and Medicine (ASAM). “There’s a great deal...
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