Sentences with phrase «opioid abuse reached»

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U.S. senators Susan Collins (R - ME) and Claire McCaskill (D - MO)-- the committee's chairwoman and ranking member — have reached out to Pfizer ($ PFE), Mylan ($ MYL), Amphastar ($ AMPH), Adapt Pharma and Kaleo, asking them to account for their pricing moves on the med, the cost of which has been heading north alongside opioid abuse and overdose rates.

The U.S. Senate's top leaders reached an agreement on a two - year budget pact that would shower both the Pentagon and domestic programs with almost $ 300 billion above existing limits, giving wins to both GOP defense hawks and Democrats seeking billions for infrastructure projects and combatting opioid abuse.

Last week, the Governor and legislative leaders reached an agreement on multiple bills that include new programs and insurance reforms to improve treatment options for individuals suffering from heroin and opioid addiction; measures to strengthen penalties and put in place additional tools for law enforcement to crack down on the distribution of illegal drugs; provisions to ensure the proper and safe use of naloxone, an overdose antidote; and support for enhanced public awareness campaigns to prevent drug abuse.

Our goal is to reach students who are at an impressionable age and drive them away from the dangers of opioids and drug abuse.

Maureen Boyle, chief of the Science Policy Branch of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Edward Bilsky, a professor of pharmacology and the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Neurosciences at the University of New England, showed how opioids can commandeer the brain's natural systems that control pain and reward, and trigger a vicious response cycle that can diminish the pain - relieving power of medications, prompt users to reach for increasingly larger quantities of opioids and lead to deadly overdoses.

Their study, published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, found that this new vaccine was not only effective in preventing heroin from reaching the brain but worked with other commonly abused opioids as well, including hydrocodone, oxycodone, hydromorphone, oxymorphone, and codeine.

The opioid abuse crisis in America has reached epidemic proportions.