Sentences with phrase «opioid painkiller overdose»

On Thursday, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy sent this letter to 2.3 million American doctors asking for their help to curb what's being called an «unprecedented» epidemic of opioid painkiller overdose deaths.

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Graphics show death rate from opioid overdoses in the U.S. and number of narcotic painkiller prescriptions.

Since opioid painkillers slow breathing and act on the same brain systems as heroin, they carry serious risks of overdose and, in rarer cases, addiction.

President Donald Trump revealed his new plan to combat the opioid crisis on Monday in New Hampshire, a state hard - hit by painkiller and heroin addiction and overdose in recent years.

Since 1999, overdose deaths involving opioid painkillers have quadrupled.

Lawmakers in more than a dozen states have proposed taxing prescription painkillers as a way to hold drugmakers accountable for the nation's opioid addiction and overdose crisis.

The surge in drug overdoses is driven mostly by the improper use of opioids — prescription painkillers, heroin, and increasingly, synthetic drugs like fentanyl.

The researchers hope their findings could help other large health systems use their own electronic medical systems as part of a larger initiative to address a key aspect of the nation's epidemic of painkiller overdoses and opioid addiction.

They found that the annual rate of deaths due to overdose on an opioid painkiller was nearly 25 % lower in states that permitted medical marijuana.

The liberalization of marijuana laws in the United States has also allowed researchers to compare overdoses from painkiller prescriptions and opioids in states that permit medical marijuana versus those that don't.

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«In addition, people already taking opioids for pain may supplement with medical marijuana and be able to lower their painkiller dose, thus lowering their risk of overdose.

Over the past 10 years the number of overdose deaths from prescription painkillers — also known as opioid analgesics — has tripled, from 4,000 people in 1999 to more than 15,000 people every year in the U.S. today.

The number of pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admissions for opioid overdoses doubled between 2004 and 2015, despite continuing efforts to curb misuse of the addictive painkillers among adults, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Chicago Medicine published in the journal Pediatrics.

VANCOUVER Researchers say opioid users in Vancouvers Downtown Eastside are increasingly testing positive for the potent painkiller fentanyl, which was linked to the majority of fatal overdoses in British Columbia last year.

Such questions were raised recently in connection with reports linking the Sackler family, prominent cultural donors, to the company that produces OxyContin, the powerful painkiller that has been involved in opioid overdoses.

That is why our opioid painkiller drug overdose lawyers offer free and confidential case consultations to recovering addicts or those who lost loved ones to prescription painkiller overdoses.