Sentences with phrase «more powerful painkillers»

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.