Sentences with phrase «opiates used»

Other opiates used as medicines — morphine, meperidine and codeine — are excreted into the milk in minimal amounts and are compatible with breastfeeding, as are benzodiazepines, as long as they are taken in controlled doses..

Perhaps most strikingly, recent evidence has shown that states with legal marijuana have lower rates of opiate use.

The main risk of opiate use during pregnancy is dependence and that's actually not as hideous as it sounds.

My midwife gave me a selection of peer - reviewed articles about mothers on opiate medication and as she explained to me, there's no evidence that opiate use during pregnancy causes birth defects etc or long term adverse outcomes (learning disabilities etc).

Heroin and other opiate use has reached epidemic level all over the U.S. Telling children to «just say no» has not worked.

Older adults are among the largest consumers of prescription opioids in the U.S. Compared with people holding commercial health insurance, Medicare enrollees are at least five times more likely to be diagnosed with opiate abuse and are also particularly vulnerable to toxic and other negative effects of opiate use.

«While comprehensive treatment for opiate use disorders has not been the traditional role of correctional facilities, we have shown that it is feasible,» said Dr. Jennifer Clarke, medical programs director at RIDOC, an associate professor of medicine at Brown and director of the RIDOC MAT program.

«Opiate use is a known hepatitis C risk factor, and all people with a history of opiate use and substance abuse should be screened for hepatitis C,» Bernstein said.

In a previous study30 among drug abusers, retrospective reports of opiate use at 4 - month intervals to a blinded assessor were compared with contemporaneous urinalyses data.

Opiate use is also on the rise.

Child Welfare Opiate Engagement Project (PDF - 445 KB) Child Welfare Opiate Engagement Project (2014) Outlines how opiate use is directly impacting the child welfare system in Ohio, the children and families the system serves, and what steps need to be taken to serve them better.

There was some evidence for an effect of exposure status (i.e., maternal cocaine or opiate use during pregnancy) on parenting stress, although this effect was not significant after controlling for maternal psychopathology (BSI scores).

Infants were entered into the comparison group if there was maternal denial of cocaine or opiate use and a negative EMIT screen for cocaine and opiate metabolites.

Not exact matches

It uses a small device that generates low - voltage electrical pulses to stimulate nerves, and thus provides targeted pain relief without opiates or surgical intervention.

In effect he was saying that faith is an opiate, that men drug themselves with it, become sleepy, complacent and comfortable through the use of it, and that their main object in going to church is to be sprayed once more with spiritual cocaine so that they may feel less acutely the ills of life and the miseries of men.

But, appropriately used, opiates have an important role to play in controlling pain and allowing terminally ill patients to regain quality of life.

Those attacking Gutiérez assume that using any of Marx's comments on society automatically brands one a «Marxist,» in the sense of accepting the whole Marxist position — its materialistic view of history, its scorn of religion as an opiate, and all the rest.

This event showcases a model of community, civic, and church collaboration that should be reproduced nationwide to help those ensnared by opiates and other substance use disorders.

For those of us who don't prefer to use opiates and other painkillers (hydrocodone, Vicodin, etc.), it could be a viable option.

I knew that I wouldn't use an Opiate or a Caine derived drug BEFORE I was pregnant, so it confused me as to why people would be so shocked by the idea of NOT using controlled substances when there was a baby inside me.

Codeine is an opiate that is used in pain medications.

Over-use of any of the opiate drugs can lead to addiction and opioid use disorder.

Many of the epidural side effects mentioned below are not improved with low - dose or walking epidurals, because women using these techniques may still receive a substantial total dose of local anesthetic, especially when continuous infusions and / or patient - controlled boluses (single large doses) are used.34 The addition of opiate drugs in epidurals or CSEs can create further risks for the mother, such as pruritus (itching) and respiratory depression (see below).

These studies show little difference between epidural and nonepidural (usually opiate - exposed) babies in terms of Apgar score and umbilical - cord pH, both of which reflect the baby's condition at birth.78 However, a large - population survey from Sweden found that use of an epidural was significantly associated with a low Apgar score at birth.79

This effect is well known to occur soon after the administration of an epidural (usually within the first 30 minutes), can last for 20 minutes, and is particularly likely following the use of opiate drugs administered via epidural and spinal.

There are also reports of newborn drug toxicity from epidural drugs, especially opiates administered via epidural.80 Newborn opiate toxicity seems more likely when higher dose regimes are used, including those where the mother is able to self - administer extra doses, although it also seems that there are wide differences in individual newborn sensitivity.81

There is, just BTW plenty of evidence that opiate pain relief, when used appropriately for acute severe pain and followed up closely, does NOT causes relapse for the vast majority of people.

The one that was there while I was in labour learned about maternal positioning (safely using a gym ball), was reminded of the difference between opiate side effects and allergies, and was able to attempt an amniotomy 2 - 3 times before she was too scared.

With consistent use of WRAPO, she has seen significantly less diaper dermatitis in the NICU, especially in the Neonatal Abstinence / opiate withdrawal population where the problem is most prominent.

He used the North Country's opiate crisis as an example.

Members of the panel spoke about warning signs of addiction, advice for parents who fear their child is using opiates, local resources for addiction and the dangerous repercussions that follow opioid abuse.

The pace, however, slowed as the county took aggressive steps, including promotion of the widespread use of the opiate antidote Naloxone.

Fentanyl is a prescription synthetic opiate analgesic used for the treatment of severe pain.

«The surcharge would generate needed revenue to expand opiate addiction treatment, prevention and recovery programs, school - based substance use programming, workforce recruitment and retention, substance abuse programming in local jails and alternatives - to - incarceration programs,» said Mike Whyland, spokesman for Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.

He was alleged to have become addicted to Percoet — an opiate medication — that he was using to dull the pain he was suffering in his last months of life.

It educates them on the effects of tobacco and marijuana use; opiate addiction; bullying, work zone driving safety, teen dating / sexual violence assaults, and the dangers of texting and driving and drinking and driving.

Methadone treatment, which allows patients to reduce or quit their use of heroin or other opiates, is highly regulated by the state and federal governments.

In a facilitated discussion, the panelists will talk about the progression of drug use, abuse and addiction; the impact opiate abuse has on individuals, families, schools, and community resources; and the ways communities are responding to this epidemic.

Wilber announced the police department, with the help of the Ulster County Sheriff's Office, was recently trained in the use of nasal naloxone, known as Narcan, to treat victims of opiate overdoses.

Educational topics will include the effects of tobacco and marijuana use; opiate addiction; bullying, work zone driving safety, teen dating / sexual violence assaults, and the dangers of texting and driving and drinking and driving.

While legislators are extending the use of one drug — alcohol — they also acted to restrict the use of other drugs — heroin and opiates.

Acetyl fentanyl is an opiate analgesic with no recognized medical use.

The question was repeated for marijuana use and illicit drug use (including ecstasy, amphetamines, opiates, cocaine / crack cocaine, glue or solvents, LSD, or anabolic steroids).

The drugs currently used to treat chronic pain — aspirin and morphine along with other opiates — don't work very well and are often addictive.

Using rodent models of opiate addiction, Dr. Laviolette's research has shown that opiates affect pathways of associative memory formation in multiple ways, both at the level of anatomy (connections between neurons) and at the molecular levels (how molecules inside the brain affect these connections).

Kosten is also researching vaccines for methamphetamines and opiates, which are among several anti-addiction shots that have the keen interest of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, says NIDA director Nora Volkow, a research psychiatrist who has used brain imaging to investigate the addictive properties of drugs.

Among shelter users in Toronto, 40 per cent reported current drug problems, with marijuana, cocaine and opiates the three most frequently used substances.

It is also used to prevent withdrawal symptoms in patients addicted to opiate drugs, specifically heroin.

In rats, the drug also decreases the desire to use alcohol, opiates and stimulants such as cocaine.

«The use of naloxone to prevent opiate overdoses has saved many lives already.