Sentences with phrase «opioid painkillers like»

Nationwide, approximately 2 million people abuse or depend on prescription opioid painkillers like OxyContin and morphine.

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One key factor contributing to the trend is the major spike in fatalities related to drugs, including prescription painkillers containing addictive opioids (like oxycodone and fentanyl) and illegal drugs like heroin; another is the second straight year that gun deaths have risen after 15 years of remaining relatively stable.

The US is suffering from a deadly opioid epidemic, especially in rural areas, thanks to the widespread use of drugs like OxyContin as painkillers.

Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 100 times more powerful than morphine, is traditionally used as a painkiller for extreme cases like end - of - life cancer patients.

Speaking on the Senate floor on Wednesday, Gillibrand said she's heard too many parents tell her how they have lost their children to opioid addiction, which began with an overprescription of painkillers like Percocet or OxyContin.

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

In 2007 Dr. Clauw and his colleagues published a brain imaging study in which they infused patients with an opioid and found that opioid receptors in the brains of fibromyalgia patients were already occupied — possibly because the body is pumping out natural painkillers (like endorphins) in response to the fibromyalgia.

Saunas cause the release of endorphins, opioid - like chemicals that are your body's natural painkillers.

If you're on medications like steroids, dopamine, or opioid painkillers (like morphine), you could also get a lower - than - normal reading.