Sentences with phrase «analgesic overdoses»
On average, states allowing the medical use of marijuana have lower rates of deaths resulting from opioid analgesic overdoses than states without such laws.
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Approximately 60 percent of all deaths resulting from opioid analgesic overdoses occur in patients who have legitimate prescriptions.
Medical Cannabis Laws and Opioid Analgesic Overdose Mortality in the United States, 1999 - 2010.
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More providers will be trained and authorized to prescribe buprenorphine, a medication that treats opioid analgesics use, and pharmacies across the city will offer naloxone, which can reverse the effects of opioid overdose, without a prescription.
The city is also increasing access to Naloxone, a medication that can reverse overdoses from opioid analgesics and heroin.
Over the past 10 years the number of overdose deaths from prescription painkillers — also known as opioid analgesics — has tripled, from 4,000 people in 1999 to more than 15,000 people every year in the U.S. today.