Tag: prescription guidelines

A new research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine, a Journal of the American Medical Association, reveals an association between doctors who received payments...

The American Dental Association (ADA) has announced new guidelines which recommend that dentists avoid prescribing opioid medications when possible, and urges limiting those prescriptions...

The FDA has determined that opioid cold and cough medicines should not be used for treating children under the age of 18. According to a...

Pennsylvania has taken the next step in the battle against the opioid crisis by announcing new guidelines for prescribing opioids to pediatric populations. The Pennsylvania...

A clinic has revamped its opioid guidelines after an internal study revealed a trend of overprescribing painkillers after surgery. The Mayo Clinic, a non-profit medical...

After years of the ongoing opioid crisis, doctors are being held accountable for overprescribing opioid painkillers. Some have even been convicted of murder. Under the...

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...

A recent study reveals that when doctors don’t prescribe opioids concurrently with a benzodiazepine, opioid overdose-related hospital trips could be reduced by 15 percent. This...

Last December, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its website with information about antibiotic stewardship -- a practice that describes a...

The Oregon Health Authority’s Public Health Division found that in 2013, out of 4 million Oregonians, 1 million of them received an opioid prescription...