Sentences with phrase «opioid medication dispensed»
Most notably, the amount of opioid medication dispensed to patients after surgery also increased markedly between 2004 and 2012 for all procedures studied.
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The VA's stepped approach includes dispensing pain medications to help wean patients off opioids, offering drug counseling, monitoring drug use, tracking medication use, offering outpatient programs and providing treatment and residential rehabilitation facilities, Drexler said.
The committee recommended improving access to the medication naloxone, which blocks or reverses the effects of opioids, as well as safe injection equipment to reduce transmission of HIV and hepatitis C. Providers and pharmacists should be permitted to prescribe, dispense, or distribute naloxone to laypersons, third parties, and first responders.