Sentences with phrase «opioid drugs because»

«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.

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As Andrew explains, it is the most insidious development yet in the opioid crisis: «It — because of its potency — is killing so many more people so much more rapidly than the prescription drugs or even the heroin did.»

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has strengthened the label warning to state that breastfeeding is not recommended while using medicines containing codeine or tramadol because of the potential for serious adverse effects in the infant due to opioid overdose (76).

Narcotics dealers selling chemically altered mixtures that contain the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl can face weaker punishments because of a loophole in state law that exempts certain drug mixes from being illegal controlled substances.

The maker of Suboxone, a blockbuster drug that helps people control their opioid addiction, engaged in anti-competitive business practices, coercing patients to use an oral strip because the tablets were set to face generic competition, according to a federal lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and 35 other Attorneys General.

Only a year ago, he said he opposed legalizing recreational marijuana use because it is a «gateway drug» to stronger drugs like opioids and he took several years to embrace efforts to legalize marijuana for medical purposes.

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.

Some people who have primarily abused opioid pain medication have turned to gabapentin after crackdowns made it more difficult to obtain opioid prescriptions or purchase the drug on the street because of its expense.

While this approach works well in most cases, it is necessary to view regulatory oversight of opioid medications differently from that of other drugs, because these medications can have a number of consequences not only at the individual level but also at the household and societal levels.

The «other victims» of the opioid epidemic are pain patients who need the drugs but can not now get them because of fears related to their use

The growing availability of prescription opioids has increased risks for people undergoing treatment for pain and created an environment and marketplace of diversion, where people who are not seeking these medications for medical reasons abuse and sell the drugs because they can produce a high.

Because GABA B is in a different class from opioid receptors, potential side effects in such a drug would be limited.

A team at Massachusetts General Hospital scrutinized the opioid system, the reward pathway hijacked by drugs such as heroin, because the researchers had earlier found that beta - endorphin and the skin pigment melanin originate from the same protein.

This is because the drug binds so tightly to the brain's opioid receptors that naloxone, at currently common doses, is unable to dislodge that bond and reverse its sedating effects to get patients breathing again, says Michael Lynch, the medical director of the Pittsburgh Poison Center.

And an overdose of marijuana is never fatal because the drug doesn't slow heart rate and breathing as opioids do.

Because high doses of opioids have the potential to cause respiratory arrest or other dangerous side effects, doctors may hesitate to give patients as much of the drugs as they need to relieve their pain, says David Soergel, chief medical officer at Trevena.

Sigma receptors were discovered in the 1970s because of their response to analogs of drugs that activate opioid receptors.

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

Of those, 22 cases had not been reported to statewide opioid surveillance because the involvement of drugs hadn't been listed on the death certificate.

Called the «overdose drug» because it counteracts the potentially lethal effects of heroin, oxycodone, and other abused narcotics, this lifesaving medicine is making headlines thanks to the opioid addiction epidemic.

A couple other things to consider are that because LDN blocks the opioid receptors, some pain narcotic drugs like Percocet or morphine or tramadol, LDN can decrease their effectiveness so that typically they shouldn't be taken together.

This is currently happening in Toronto, where Harm Reduction Workers set up an illegal pop - up overdose prevention site in Moss Park because they believed the opioid crisis is at a point where drug users in the city can not wait months for a legal supervised injection site...

Without that money, the U.S. can't stem the tide of the opioid epidemic, says Chrissie Juliano, director of the Big Cities Health Coalition, because it is used for programs designed to prevent opioid addiction, such as prescription drug monitoring.