Sentences with phrase «from opioid analgesics»

The city is also increasing access to Naloxone, a medication that can reverse overdoses from opioid analgesics and heroin.

Approximately 60 percent of all deaths resulting from opioid analgesic overdoses occur in patients who have legitimate prescriptions.

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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Researchers from Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital and McLean Hospital investigated if high distress intolerance would make patients with chronic pain more likely to misuse opioid analgesics.

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.

Scientists from the University of Granada have taken part, alongside the Esteve laboratory, in the development of a new drug that multiplies the analgesic effect of opioids (drugs for treating intense pain), without increasing constipation, one of the most common side - effects of these drugs, among which is morphine.

When mice were given a daily saccharin solution for 28 consecutive days, morphine no longer resulted in any amount of the typical analgesia.17 In other words, the tolerance of opioids in the mice was increased from the sweet taste of saccharine, necessitating larger doses of opioid drugs to achieve similar analgesic effects.