Sentences with phrase «of opioid drug»

A doctor in Oklahoma has been charged with five counts of second - degree murder after her patients died because of opioid drug overdose.

The stereotype - shattering nature of the opioid drug crisis, both in Erie County and nationwide, has not gone unnoticed by activists in the black community who remember when the crack epidemic swept through low - income, urban neighborhoods in the 1980s and early»90s, leading to a spike in violent crime and homicides.

In contrast, positive expectations of treatment doubled the natural physiological or biochemical effect of the opioid drug among the healthy volunteers in the study.

However, Spicer then signaled that the White House sees recreational pot very differently, with the press secretary even attempting to link recreational use of the drug to the abuse of opioid drugs across the U.S. (In fact, there has been little scientific evidence linking marijuana legalization to opioid use, with some studies actually showing a decrease in opioid overdoses in states where legal marijuana is available.)

From 2003 through 2007, Simmons, Hanly & Conroy represented 5,000 individual plaintiffs in a class - action lawsuit against Purdue Pharma regarding the use of opioid drugs, according to the county.

The nation's largest pharmacy benefit manager, Express Scripts, will soon limit the number and strength of opioid drugs prescribed to first - time users as part of a wide - ranging effort to curb an epidemic affecting millions of Americans.

Last June, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation that initially limits physicians from prescribing more than a seven - day supply of opioid drugs.

But because of the high potency of opioid drugs sold and used in Erie County, emergency personnel often find they need to use multiple doses to revive overdose victims.

Randall Bond, an ER doctor and pediatrician at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital who led the study, says the uptick coincides with a dramatic boost in sales of opioid drugs.

«Pain sensitivity is a major issue for users of opioid drugs because the more you take, the more the drug can increase your sensitivity to pain, so you may never quite get the level of relief you need.

Suing the manufacturers of opioid drugs is no help with the problem of abuse (13 May, p 25).

So I was pleased to hear that there's a reason I inflict this pain on myself: grains have been proven to be addictive, mimicking the effects of opioid drugs.

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.

The use of opioid drugs must be monitored carefully by a veterinarian, particularly in dogs with heart condtions.

Not exact matches

The agents were particularly interested in the facility's practices when it came to an even smaller subset of those scheduled drugs: the highly addictive pain medicines containing oxycodone and hydrocodone that have been at the center of the nation's opioid epidemic.

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.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions» wide - ranging new crackdown on drug offenders could exacerbate one of America's most persistent public health tragedies: the heroin and opioid addiction epidemic that's been ravaging the country and killed nearly 35,000 Americans in 2015 alone.

It's been a busy week for health care news between some high - profile setbacks for certain major cancer drug makers, high - profile victories for others, the confirmation of a new FDA chief, health care merger drama, and a slew of public health reports about the opioid epidemic, hepatitis C, and U.S. life expectancy.

And the opioid epidemic is at the forefront of this crisis, with fears the drugs could kill nearly 500,000 people over the next decade.

Taking dangerous quantities of the otherwise safe loperamide is one strategy being used by people addicted to opioid painkillers and other drugs since it can increase opioid absorption in the gut; the FDA says it is now working with loperamide manufacturers to change its packaging so that it comes with fewer doses and is thus harder to abuse.

After all we're just talking about social media, this isn't a campaign to raise awareness about illegal drugs or the abuse of prescription opioids.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is working with manufacturers to tweak the packaging of loperamide, a common OTC and prescription anti-diarrhea medication that is now also being used by people addicted to opioids to stem withdrawal symptoms or enhance their highs.

One key factor contributing to the trend is the major spike in fatalities related to drugs, including prescription painkillers containing addictive opioids (like oxycodone and fentanyl) and illegal drugs like heroin; another is the second straight year that gun deaths have risen after 15 years of remaining relatively stable.

While evidence is anecdotal, some employers seem set to continue drug testing all applicants and taking a hard line on use of opioids, methamphetamine, and cocaine.

And for 27 years, before he was elected sheriff, he presided over court cases — ones that increasingly involved the stories of lives undone by drugs and poverty, and of an opioid epidemic taking root.

Although the offer of DisposeRX for free is coming as a result of the opioid epidemic, the product works on any type of prescription drug, according to Holaday.

The most addictive drugs, like prescription opioids, are held in a so - called vault and packaged in specially sealed plastic bags by background - checked workers under the gaze of several cameras.

A new government - funded study suggests that addictive opioid painkillers may not be better than other, non-opioid kinds of drugs for treating chronic back pain and arthritis.

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.

The call to execute certain drug traffickers is drawing the most attention, but another part of the plan could make a big difference: The White House will support research into developing a vaccine for opioid addiction.

Other pain points included drug pricing and how approving more generics may affect costs (Gottlieb parried that question by noting the FDA doesn't have the authority to negotiate prices or consider pricing when approving a drug) and his alleged softness on opioid drug makers due the aforementioned financial ties and pro-industry ideology (the nominee noted that he considers opioid addiction and overdoses a public health crisis «on the order of Ebola and Zika»).

Those provisions, she said, outweighed the «tiny fig leaf» of additional money the bill provides for biomedical research and combating abuse of addictive opioid drugs.

The US is suffering from a deadly opioid epidemic, especially in rural areas, thanks to the widespread use of drugs like OxyContin as painkillers.

Her company is best known for jacking up the price of life - saving EpiPen anti-allergy medication, but it also manufactures naloxone, a drug meant to treat opioid over-doses.

He points out a couple factors that make it hard to assign blame when it comes to the opioid epidemic — pain meds are lawful drugs, approved and regulated by the federal government, and there are «a whole lot of intermediaries: in the distribution process.

The White House report on the epidemic says that 142 Americans die of drug overdoses every day, and urges measures like federal legislation that would boost widespread adoption of naloxone, an opioid overdose antidote.

That number is based on prescriptions by morphine milligram equivalents, a metric that takes into account the strength and dosage of drugs, but the total number of filled opioid prescriptions also dropped by 10.2 % per month, according to the report.

CVS, for example, began limiting prescriptions to seven days and prioritizing lower - dose drugs, and a number of legal complaints have been leveled against opioid manufacturers, who have been accused of using misleading marketing tactics that may have caused more patients to get hooked on potentially addicting painkillers.

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.

Amphastar became yet another drug price - hiking villain facing intense public scrutiny when it raised the price of naloxone, an opioid overdose antidote, by more than 100 %.

For decades, naloxone, a drug approved in 1971 that instantly reverses the effect of opioid overdose, languished in relative obscurity.

In a 2015 report on national drug threats, DEA officials stated that fentanyl was «unlikely to assume a significant portion of the opioid market.»

The opioid antagonist Naloxone, or Narcan, instantly stops the effects of a drug overdose when administered.

In a statement released Friday, coroner Jonathan Lucas said that Petty's system showed signs of several opioid painkillers, including fentanyl and oxycodone, in addition to the other drugs.

«Even if it remains a Schedule I substance, the DEA will continue to allocate its resources and time to the biggest and most violent drug traffickers,» he says, explaining most of the agency's resources are being used to deal with the current opioid epidemic, which kills more people each year than auto accidents.

Drug companies including Purdue Pharma LP and Johnson & Johnson have been fighting lawsuits by two California counties, the city of Chicago, four counties in New York and the state of Mississippi over their opioid marketing practices.

Citing data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the National Institute of Drug Abuse, Walmart said some 65 % of opioid abusers get them from unwitting family and friends.

Several West Virginia counties have filed lawsuits in recent months against drug wholesalers McKesson Corp, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen for failing to report suspicious orders of opioids in the state.

In this era of marijuana legalization and opioid overdoses, it was encouraging to see the attorney general call attention to drug education for the young.