«Those of us who work in hospital intensive care units need to make sure we have the tools we need to help patients with
opioid use disorders when they are at their sickest, because there doesn't appear to be any end to this epidemic in sight.»
Not exact matches
«At this time,
when prescription
opioid use and
opioid overdoses are both major threats to our public health, it is important to identify new treatment targets, such as epigenetic processes, that help to change the way that we do business in treating
opioid use disorders,» said professor John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry.
«Medications underutilized
when treating young people with
opioid use disorder.»
It found that 19 percent of the 38.6 million Americans with mood
disorders use prescription
opioids, compared to 5 percent of the general population — a difference that remained even
when the researchers controlled for factors such as physical health, level of pain, age, sex and race.