Sentences with phrase «more powerful opioids»

Researchers also noted that little is known about the efficacy and safety of off - label use of naloxone for treating overdoses related to newly emerging illicit uses of more powerful opioids such as fentanyl and fentanyl derivatives.

Not exact matches

These devices dispense a drug called buprenorphine — itself an opioid, but one that doesn't produce the sort of euphoric and addictive high that more powerful painkillers such as OxyContin and morphine do.

Deaths from the illicit and powerful opioid heroin increased more than sevenfold over that span, to nearly than 13,000.

Now, we're getting some more details on exactly what happened: The performer reported thought he was taking traditional prescription Vicodin but was actually taking a counterfeit treatment laced with the far more powerful (and deadly) opioid fentanyl, which has become an increasing source of alarm for public health officials.

Since fentanyl is so much more potent than other opioid painkillers, drug traffickers only need to pack their drugs with small amounts of it to provide users a powerful punch.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP)-- Some of the pills taken from Prince's estate in Paisley Park after his death were counterfeit drugs that actually contained fentanyl — a synthetic opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin, an official close to the investigation said.

Many experts say the prescription painkiller epidemic started when physicians began over-prescribing powerful opioid medications, a well - meaning attempt to more aggressively treat patients» pain.

Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 100 times more powerful than morphine, is traditionally used as a painkiller for extreme cases like end - of - life cancer patients.

And since 2014, fentanyl — an opioid that is 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine — has driven the dramatic increase in overdose deaths.

While prescription painkillers have played a role in the epidemic, crackdowns mean many now get opioids on the street — including fentanyl, which can be 100 times more powerful than heroin.

In just two years, the powerful opioid fentanyl went from nonexistent to detected in more than 1 in 7 stamp bags analyzed by the Allegheny County Office of the Medical Examiner, according to an analysis led by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.

Increasingly, drug users are turning to opioids and powerful synthetic versions of these drugs that can sometimes be as much as 100 times more potent than heroin,» says Kim D. Janda, Ph.D., who led the research into the vaccines.

They were also more likely to return to the hospital in the next 12 months with an opioid - related fall or fracture, a risk factor for seniors who take the powerful painkillers.