Sentences with phrase «involving opioid use»

Developed by an expert ASAM Guideline Committee, the National Practice Guideline provides guidance on the use of medications to treat addiction involving opioid use, according to a synopsis by Drs. Kyle Kampman of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, and Margaret Jarvis of Marworth Alcohol and Chemical Dependency Treatment Center, Waverly, Pa..

Together with the other members of the Guideline Committee and the ASAM leadership, Drs. Kampman and Jarvis hope the information provided will help to make treatment more readily available for people with addiction involving opioid use, thus stemming the tide of overdose deaths.

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In 2011, 31 % of prescription - opioid - related overdose deaths involved these two kinds of drugs used together, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Such education should involve mandating pain - related education for all health professionals who provide care to people with pain, requiring and providing basic training in the treatment of opioid use disorder for health care providers, and training prescribers and pharmacists to recognize and counsel patients who are at risk for opioid use disorder or overdose.

Of the 20.5 million Americans over the age of 12 who had a substance use disorder in 2015, 2 million involved prescription opioids.

Community detoxification is a treatment option that supports people to reduce or stop their use of opioids, benzodiazepines or z hypnotics through an organised process involving key workers and prescribing doctors within the community.