Sentences with phrase «addictive painkillers»

The same pharmacies, he points out, have no qualms about carrying highly addictive painkillers such as oxycodone.

«Abuse of addictive painkillers has increased drastically in the last decade, but our state's regulation and monitoring of these powerful drugs has not kept up,» said U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.

For some athletes, this is a problem, especially because they believe that many pro sports leagues, including the NFL, have a history of pushing powerful and addictive painkillers on players.

Opiates are drugs that are derived from the opium poppy, and range from some of the most addictive painkillers such as codeine, oxycodone, and fentanyl to illicit drugs, such as heroin.

A number of these highly addictive painkillers get diverted, landing in the hands of patients who misuse them or lack a legitimate medical need; often, they wind up with people to whom they were never prescribed.

It has largely been attributed to pharmaceutical companies prescribing and profiting from the proliferation of extremely addictive painkillers.

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

In fact, the FDA recommends doctors send pain patients to acupuncture before prescribing addictive painkillers.

In January, the Department of Justice announced that McKesson had settled, for $ 150 million, civil claims that from 2008 to 2013 the company had failed to warn the DEA about the large number of suspicious orders of highly addictive painkillers it had shipped to certain parts of the country.

This company may have a less - addictive painkiller on its hands.

One law enforcement agent said Gosnell was one of Pennsylvania's top three prescribers of the addictive painkiller Oxycontin.

«They are preying upon an ever - expanding population of those who become addicted to opiates,» he said, pointing out that many of these individuals start out with legal prescriptions to the highly addictive painkillers.

On that same trip, Lewin saw that some doses of Vicodin, an addictive painkiller, had gone missing.

The number of pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admissions for opioid overdoses doubled between 2004 and 2015, despite continuing efforts to curb misuse of the addictive painkillers among adults, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Chicago Medicine published in the journal Pediatrics.

The addictive painkillers — which are responsible for one of the greatest public health crises in American history — also seem to increase the risk of depression.