Sentences with phrase «prescribing opioid painkillers»

According to the authors, this highlights the importance of identifying symptoms of depression prior to prescribing opioid painkillers for back pain, as the risks are so much greater in such instances, and the benefits more limited.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued the first federal guidelines for prescribing opioid painkillers this week.

After a pain pill user killed four people at a Medford pharmacy in 2011, he went after doctors who illegally prescribe opioid painkillers.

A factor that may be contributing to the difference may be the fact that women are more frequently prescribed opioid painkillers in higher doses for a longer duration than men due to chronic pain.

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FBI agents arrested former Insys Therapeutics (insy) CEO Michael Babich and five other former company executives on Thursday for allegedly bribing doctors to prescribe an extremely addictive opioid painkiller to patients who didn't need it.

Andrew observed a very dangerous trend taking hold: Doctors — who were having new drugs pushed to them by profit - driven pharmaceutical companies — began prescribing extremely powerful and addictive opioid painkillers to patients with almost reckless abandon.

He sees similarities between the push to legalize marijuana and what he called the «right to pain treatment» movement of the 1990s that paved the way for more liberal prescribing of hydrocodone and other highly addictive opioid prescription painkillers.

The Medicaid Inspector General indicates that an addictive opioid that often leads to heroin and fentanyl use is no longer the top painkiller prescribed by doctors in the county.

Surgeons performing 11 common operations can turn to a free new prescribing tool based on data about how many opioid painkillers patients across Michigan actually took after their operations.

TUESDAY, Sept. 27, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- More than half of the narcotic painkillers prescribed after wisdom teeth removal go unused, according to a new study that suggests this could contribute to the U.S. opioid epidemic.

And the more serious painkillers, known as opioids (codeine, morphine) often prescribed postsurgery or for short - term relief of extreme pain, cause many more side effects such as nausea, constipation, depression, and itching in women than men.