Not exact matches
Higgins and other bill supporters point to the statistic that while more than 800,000 doctors can prescribe controlled substances - including the ones to which
patients become addicted - only
about 30,000 doctors can prescribe the medication that can treat the
addiction.
This discussion is urgently needed with teen
patients, who are either uninformed or misinformed
about the dangers and risks associated with electronic cigarettes, says Nancy Campbell - Heider, PhD, a University at Buffalo
addictions and high - risk adolescent behavior expert.
For the 12 - week, $ 170,000 pilot project, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and will begin later this month, Young's team plans to recruit
about 60
patients from the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center who are experiencing chronic pain, are on long - term opioid therapy, and have reported other behaviors — such as drug or alcohol abuse — that put them at high risk of
addiction.
The reasons include inadequate provider education and misunderstandings
about addiction medications by the public, health care providers, insurers, and
patients.
Nearly 10 years later in 2007 Purdue would plead guilty in federal court to criminal charges that they misled regulators, doctors, and
patients about the drug's risk of
addiction as well as its potential to be abused.
Prescription opioids are widely used by
patients with cLBP, raising concerns
about addiction, misuse, and accidental overdose.
Eshel is particularly excited
about the possible implications for his
patients, particularly those affected by
addiction, a disease he sees every day in the emergency rooms and hospital wards.
During the second annual Partners Quality & Safety Symposium, Dr. Wakeman detailed the efforts that have had an impact on the way we talk
about, treat, and support
patients who are battling opioid
addiction.
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Institutionalized once again, David spends his time with his chatterbox friend Lenny, a fellow
patient whose life - long drug and alcohol
addiction has done nothing to quell her boundless optimism that her luck is
about to change.
Read this story
about two dogs making a difference for the homeless from this week's Pet Connection: Two Labrador retrievers are making life a little brighter for
patients battling poverty, homelessness, illness or
addiction.
• Former
patient of a Rhode Island doctor sues him for featuring her in a book
about drug
addiction.
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