Sentences with phrase «opioid prescription rates»

«Higher opioid prescription rates are associated with higher children removal rates in Florida, and the relationship is especially strong for removals for parental neglect and parental drug abuse,» he said.

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Over the past decade and a half, McDowell has lost people to prescription opioid overdoses at a higher rate than any other county in America but one (its neighbor, Wyoming County).

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

Native Americans have experienced the highest rate of prescription opioid deaths out of any ethnic group.

Staten Island is in the throes of a prescription drug epidemic with the borough having the highest rate of opioid OD deaths in the city.

«Canada is second in the world only to the U.S. in our rates of prescription opioid use, and the rise of prescription opioids in our provinces has also shown to be strongly linked to overdose deaths,» cautions Dr. Rehm, who is also Head of the World Health Organization / Pan-American Health Organization (WHO / PAHO) Collaborating Centre in Addiction and Mental Health at CAMH.

Previous studies have reported that states where medical marijuana is legal have lower rates of medical and non-medical prescription drug use and related harms — including opioid overdose.

- Largest proportional increase in opioid prescriptions in Midwestern states; Highest overall frequency of opioids prescribed in Western states; Lowest rates of opioid utilization in Northeast states

«Appropriate access to medication - assisted therapies under Medicaid is a key piece of the strategy to address the rising rate of death from overdoses of prescription opioids,» said co-author Stephen Cha, M.D., M.H.S., chief medical officer for the Center for Medicaid and CHIP [Children's Health Insurance Program] Services at CMS.

For some opioids, prescription rates increased dramatically; Dilaudid, one of the most potent yet addictive medications, went up 668.2 percent.

Among blacks and whites, significant increases in the rate of heroin use were observed among those using prescription opioids more frequently (100 - 365 days) in the past year.

«With the rates of opioid dependence and overdose skyrocketing and physician prescriptions representing the center of the supply chain, it is imperative for surgeons to balance the pain - control needs of patients with the devastating consequences of America's epidemic,» researchers wrote.

In addition, the researchers observed that sociodemographic factors played a role, with an association between areas of greater social deprivation and higher rates of opioid prescriptions.

The study found that for every additional 6.7 opioid prescriptions written per 100 people living in the state, the rate of removal of children due to parental neglect went up by 32 percent.

During this same period — 2012 to 2015 — the rate of opioid prescriptions increased by 9 percent.

Opioid Death Rates Are Not Correlated With Prescription Rates Across States May 14th, 1:30 pm UTC at Hit & Run by Jacob Sullum