Sentences with phrase «opioid users»

Studies show that between 40 and 95 % of opioid users report constipation because of their medication use.

These people accounted for 25 percent of chronic opioid users and 40 percent of high - dose users in 2015.

Long - acting opioid users had 69 excess deaths per 10,000 users.

Chronic opioid users received numerous opioid prescriptions — at least six and generally 13 per year — typically prescribed by multiple doctors.

It has been acknowledged that many opioid users have pre-existing anxiety or depressive disorder.

New laws in 37 states allow friends and family members of opioid users to obtain a prescription.

Women were at greater risk of becoming chronic opioid users than men.

Consistent with earlier research, with the exception of Hispanics, frequent prescription opioid users of all race and ethnicities and heroin users were at increased risk of ever injecting heroin and of past year heroin abuse and / or dependence.

«Hepatitis C care falling short for young opioid users in R.I..»

Overall, about one in every 48 Medicare patients prescribed an opioid in the study were likely to become a long - term opioid user.

The less commonly prescribed opioid substitute buprenorphine may be safer than methadone for problem opioid users, especially if used during the first month of treatment, according to a study which includes University of...

«It is possible that Hispanics who were frequent opioids users — more than 100 days per year — and who were also likely to use heroin in previous years, are now only able to use prescription opioids 1 - 29 days a year in the past 12 months due to recent constraints in the prescription opioids market,» observed Martins.

«This is another tool to give opioid users a chance.»

He said he plans to steer opioid users into treatment while handling dealers «like murderers, when the law and the evidence permit it.»

According to the Drug Enforcement Agency, over 50 percent of opioid users get drugs not from a pharmacy, not from a drug dealer, but from someone's medicine cabinet.

Although these are relatively small percentages, this suggests that a portion of patients who were «opioid naïve» prior to surgery will become new chronic opioid users following arthroplasty.

Colvin says she already sees strong evidence of hyperalgesia in high - dose opioid users at the clinic where she works.

The gap narrowed as time went on, but even at a year post-surgery, the pre-surgery opioid users had twice the medical costs — at about $ 25,000 — as those who hadn't been taking the drugs, who came in at an average of $ 12,113.

Patients were considered preoperative opioid users if they had filled a prescription in the three months preceeding surgery.

The success of naloxone has spurred a movement of community programs to help train opioid users and their loved ones on how to correctly identify a drug overdose and administer this life - saving medication.

Nasal naloxone might be absorbed differently by opioid users due to damaged nasal mucosa, rhinitis, or nasal obstruction from mucus or vomit during overdose.

Currently, more than 20 million Americans are illicit opioid users, misusing prescription opioids or using street opioids such as heroin.

Strang also points out that we also haven't considered how reliably nasal naloxone works in opioid users whose nasal mucosa may be damaged from drug snorting, or obstructed by vomit during overdose.

«With the opioid epidemic underway in the United States and health care professionals limiting the number of opioid - based medications being prescribed, a major concern raised by our study is that more opioid users will turn to the darknet to acquire drugs,» she said.

«When opioid users are making that first purchase, price doesn't matter at all,» said Scott Duxbury, lead author of the study and doctoral student in sociology at The Ohio State University.

Some chronic opioid users switch to kratom to wean themselves off of pain pills and ease withdrawal symptoms, says Oliver Grundmann, a medicinal chemist at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Delay discounting in opioid use disorder: differences between heroin and prescription opioid users Karakula SL, Weiss RD, Griffin ML, Borges AM, Bailey AJ, McHugh RK.

JAX Associate Professor Vivek Kumar, Ph.D., explains why opioid users who have recently been released from prison or those who have already detoxed are more likely to overdose than new drug users.

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.

«This is alarming and raises concern since injection drug use among prescription opioid users can contribute to the spread of HIV, as recently reported in Southern Indiana, as well as of Hepatitis C,» says Martins.

Within the same hospital, some doctors are three times more likely to prescribe an opioid than other doctors, and patients treated by high - prescribing doctors are more likely to become long - term opioid users, according to a study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The less commonly prescribed opioid substitute buprenorphine may be safer than methadone for problem opioid users, especially if used during the first month of treatment, according to a study which includes University of Manchester researchers.

By 2000, Mao was turning his attention to patients, and the population of opioid users was expanding.

Among chronic opioid users, the average «morphine equivalent dose» (MED) also dipped in 2011.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled a $ 168 billion budget plan that would close an over $ 4 billion gap by reducing some spending and imposing tax increases on health insurers, big businesses and prescription opioid users, among others.

Governor Andrew Cuomo unveiled a $ 168 billion budget plan that would close an over $ 4 billion gap by reducing some spending, and imposing tax increases on health insurers, big businesses, and prescription opioid users, among others.

Governor Andrew Cuomo Tuesday unveiled a $ 168 billion budget plan that would close a more than $ 4 billion gap by reducing some spending, and imposing tax increases on health insurers, big businesses, and prescription opioid users, among others.

These difference weren't huge — 4.5 percent of opioid users had a hospital readmission, compared with 3.6 percent of those who hadn't taken opioids.

Several countries now provide take - home naloxone (THN) to opioid users for emergency use, but mostly as pilot schemes and without formal evaluation.

In order to assess the characteristics of participants in support groups for family members of opoid users, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) surveyed a cross section of attendees and found that the common demographic for these meetings was mothers of opioid users, many of whom provided financial support to their child.

Professor Sir John Strang of King's College London, who co-authored the report, is cautiously optimistic: «Our findings demonstrate good early absorption and overall bioavailability of naloxone in healthy subjects, but concentrated naloxone nasal spray has yet to be formally tested in the target population of opioid users.

«The high degree of involvement in the lives of an opioid user among attendees is consistent with reported motivations to have a kit in the house for a greater sense of security and improved confidence to handle an overdose,» explained lead author Sarah Bagley, MD, from the Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit at BUSM and BMC and a physician in General Internal Medicine at BMC.

The high prevalence and intensity of opioid use among SSDI recipients parallels the preponderance of musculoskeletal disorders, such as back pain — some type of musculoskeletal condition was present in 94 percent of chronic opioid users.

The high proportion of SSDI recipients who are chronic opioid users — in many, at high and very high daily doses — «is worrisome in light of established and growing evidence that intense opioid use to treat non-malignant [non-cancer] pain may not be effective and may confer important risk,» write Dr Nancy Elizabeth Morden and colleagues of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Lebanon, N.H.

Indeed, some opioid users are aware of the dangers of both fentanyl and heroin: According to the report, 30 percent of the respondents said that, in order to help protect themselves against a deadly overdose, they don't use the drugs when they are alone.

Addressing opioid prescribing during the acute care period among those patients not using opioids has the greatest potential to reduce the number of new chronic opioid users and minimize unintended distribution of prescription opioids into communities.

Feb. 12, 2018 — Opioid users have a significantly increased risk of infections severe enough to require treatment at the hospital, such as pneumonia and meningitis, as compared to people who don't use opioids.

«And people who do not use opioids, often parents of opioid users, are also likely to use naloxone on friends or strangers, not just on family members,» she said.

Further study of data from more than 243,000 patients aged 45 and younger found that those who were given two prescription fills were 2.25 times more likely to become long - term opioid users than those who received one prescription.