Sentences with phrase «based opioid overdose»

For anyone who is unable to afford the insurance co-pay or the cost of naloxone, naloxone may be accessed free of charge at community - based opioid overdose prevention programs.

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Adapt, which is based in Dublin, but operates out of Radnor, Pennsylvania, is one of a handful of companies that in recent years have introduced products delivering naloxone, a decades - old drug that can quickly reverse an opioid overdose, in Narcan spray.

Nevada and five other states are filing new lawsuits accusing a Connecticut - based pharmaceutical company of using deceptive marketing to boost drug sales that fueled opioid overdose deaths.

Based on the survey, 54 percent of New Yorkers have been personally touched by opioid abuse, and 24 percent of New Yorkers personally know someone who has died to an opioid overdose.

Naloxegol is based on the same active molecule as naloxone, a drug developed in the 1960s to counter the effects of opioid overdose.

Since the resurgence of opioid - based medications to treat pain in the 1990s, the drugs have become the primary source of fatal overdoses in the United States.

Ambulance - based studies indicate that between 9 and 26 % of opioid overdose victims fail to respond to nasal naloxone.

«Hospital - based clinicians frequently treat patients with acute pain, and although opioids may sometimes be beneficial in this setting, they do carry the risk of adverse events including inadvertent overdose and physical dependence,» said lead author Shoshana J. Herzig, MD, MPH, Director of Hospital Medicine Research in BIDMC's Division of General Medicine and Primary Care Sections of Hospital Medicine and Research.