Sentences with phrase «abusing opioid painkillers»

Pain relief was the top reason cited for misusing or abusing opioid painkillers.

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Shares of Nektar Therapeutics rose 4.5 % in Tuesday trading as the company's opioid - modifying painkiller proved to have far less abuse potential than conventional opioids in a clinical study.

Taking dangerous quantities of the otherwise safe loperamide is one strategy being used by people addicted to opioid painkillers and other drugs since it can increase opioid absorption in the gut; the FDA says it is now working with loperamide manufacturers to change its packaging so that it comes with fewer doses and is thus harder to abuse.

Walmart's offer of free DisposeRX is just the latest in a series of efforts by pharmacies to reduce the risk that opioids will be diverted from their appropriate use as painkillers and abused by either the original customer or another person.

And just this month, the federal Food and Drug Administration requested Endo Pharmaceuticals, an international pharmaceutical manufacturer, remove Opana ER — a semi-synthetic opioid painkiller — from the market after concluding the drug's potential for abuse outweighed its therapeutic value.

Some 11.5 million people misused the painkillers, and 1.9 million people reported opioid dependence or abuse, Beth Han of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in Rockville, Md., and colleagues report online August 1 in Annals of Internal Mediabuse, Beth Han of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in Rockville, Md., and colleagues report online August 1 in Annals of Internal MediAbuse and Mental Health Services Administration in Rockville, Md., and colleagues report online August 1 in Annals of Internal Medicine.

More than 11 million people misused the painkillers and almost 2 million people had opioid dependence or abuse.

The rise in the abuse of opioids — powerfully addictive painkillers — is driven by adults.

Amid the opioid epidemic, abuse of a different prescription painkiller has widely gone unnoticed.

Nationwide, approximately 2 million people abuse or depend on prescription opioid painkillers like OxyContin and morphine.

The CDC has recommended a three - day limit on prescription painkillers for patients, said Dr. Anita Gupta, an anesthesiologist and pain specialist who serves as the American Society of Anesthesiologists» co-chair on prescription and opioid abuse.