Sentences with phrase «begin opioid therapy»

Last year, the CDC recommended that patients be tested when they begin opioid therapy and that long - term users be checked annually, though it left further testing decisions to the discretion of the health practitioner.

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Hep C patients being treated for opioid addiction achieved high rates of sustained virologic response after 12 weeks of therapy with elbasvir - grazoprevir compared to those taking placebo for 12 weeks before beginning the drug treatment.

For the 12 - week, $ 170,000 pilot project, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and will begin later this month, Young's team plans to recruit about 60 patients from the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center who are experiencing chronic pain, are on long - term opioid therapy, and have reported other behaviors — such as drug or alcohol abuse — that put them at high risk of addiction.

Menses had often ceased soon after beginning sustained - action opioid therapy.