Sentences with phrase «prescription opioid»

Nearly half of those deaths involved a prescription opioid.

In November 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a recall of Darvon, the brand name of propoxyphene, a prescription opioid painkiller that received FDA approval in 1957.

We can help your state, county, city, or tribal nation get the compensation they need from negligent prescription opioid manufacturers, distributors, and retailers.

The Union Leader editorial board blasts New Hampshire Attorney General Joe Foster's contingency fee arrangement with the Cohen Milstein plaintiffs» firm for «prescription opioid» litigation against pharmaceutical companies.

The DEA and Discovery Education have joined forces to combat a growing epidemic of prescription opioid misuse and heroin use nationwide.

Meet teens who are struggling with prescription opioid misuse and heroin use and learn the science behind their powerful stories in this self - paced, standards - aligned e-learning experience, The Science of Addiction: The Stories of Teens.

Additional information on the warning signs of prescription opioid misuse and a guide to prevention and intervention empower families to reach out.

Luke has been released from a rehabilitation facility for a prescription opioid addiction, and Laurie wants her daughter to bond with the teen who's likely to become Erica's stepbrother.

Yet the most commonly recommended conventional medical solution — prescription opioid painkillers — is turning out to be worse than the problem.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the total economic burden of prescription opioid misuse alone in the United States is $ 78.5 billion a year.

Dozens of states are already looking into the overprescription of opioids, and a multistate investigation is demanding information from the manufacturers and distributors of prescription opioid drugs in an attempt to determine whether the companies were engaged in any unlawful practices in the marketing and distribution of these drugs.

This epidemic of addiction has left millions of people dependent on illegal narcotics such as heroin, or to prescription opioid pain relievers like oxycodone (brand name: OxyContin), codeine, and morphine.

Nationwide, approximately 2 million people abuse or depend on prescription opioid painkillers like OxyContin and morphine.

In fact, about 20,000 Americans died from prescription opioid overdosing in 2015.

Longitudinal association between pain severity and subsequent opioid use in prescription opioid dependent patients with chronic pain Griffin ML, McDermott KA, McHugh RK, Fitzmaurice GM, Jamison RN, Weiss RD. Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

He has authored over 300 publications, including several books, and is the recipient of numerous National Institutes of Health grants for developing integrated group therapy, as well as leading a multisite treatment study of prescription opioid dependence.

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.

Second, the lab is studying how early life stress impacts both the transcriptome in stress - related brain regions using deep - sequencing methods and the addictive potential of the prescription opioid oxycodone using the drug self - administration paradigm, in male and female rats.

A study of seventh - and eighth - graders found a five percent prevalence of nonmedical prescription opioid use.

For treating patients with prescription opioid dependence in primary care, buprenorphine maintenance therapy is superior to detoxification, according to a new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers published in the Oct. 20 issue of JAMA Internal Medicine.

Fiellin and his colleagues conducted a 14 - week randomized clinical study of 113 patients with prescription opioid dependence.

«Across the country, and especially in Pennsylvania, there's been a significant effort made by physicians, law enforcement, politicians and others to take necessary steps to address the staggering statistics related to both prescription opioid pain relievers and the street - drug heroin,» says Scott Shapiro MD, president of the Pennsylvania Medical Society.

«For prescription opioid dependence, buprenorphine detoxification is less effective than ongoing maintenance treatment, and increases the risk of overdose and other adverse events,» said Fiellin.

Every day, more than 90 Americans die after overdosing on opioids, and the economic burden of prescription opioid misuse in the United States totals $ 78.5 billion per year, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Opioid abuse and addiction is a growing concern in the U.S. with the National Institute on Drug Abuse estimating that approximately 2.1 million Americans suffer from substance use disorders related to prescription opioid pain relievers and an estimated 467,000 Americans are addicted to heroin, with increasing recognition of the strong relationship between opioid use and heroin abuse.

The evidence appeared to show similar effectiveness between the intramuscular and intranasal delivery for heroin or prescription opioid overdose, but the intranasal naloxone studied was at a concentration different than the FDA - approved nasal formulation.

Prescription opioid overdoses killed more than 165,000 Americans between 1999 and 2014, and the health and social costs of abusing such drugs are estimated to be as much as $ 55 billion a year.

More than 41 people per day died from a prescription opioid overdose in 2015.

«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.

In a Clinical Crossroads article featured in the March 6, 2013 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Dr. Dan Alford from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) suggests that prescription opioid abuse can be minimized by monitoring patients closely for harm by using urine drug testing (UDT), pill counts, and reviewing prescription drug monitoring program data when available.

A new, team - based, primary care model is decreasing prescription opioid use among patients with chronic pain by 40 percent, according to a new study out of Boston Medical Center's Grayken Center for Addiction Medicine, which is published online ahead of print in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Professor Strang added: «The vast majority of studies included in this review reported on heroin overdoses, so future research will need to examine the impact of take - home naloxone for overdoses from long - acting opioids, such as methadone or prescription opioid medications.»

The study, «Prescription opioid use among adults with mental health disorders in the United States,» is among the first to show the extent to which the population of Americans with mental illness use opioids.

«All in all we hope the study garners the attention of state and federal policy makers to highlight that the prescription opioid epidemic is having a tangible impact on both mothers and infants,» Patrick said.

Our study found that several things increased an infant's risk, including the duration of opioid use, the type of prescription opioid, how many cigarettes a woman smoked and if they used a common antidepressant medicine called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.»

A 2015 study estimated that more than 900,000 Americans used heroin in the previous year, while 4.3 million took prescription opioid pain medications for non-medical uses.

The greatest proportion of prescription opioid overdoses happened in urban areas (84.1 percent), in the South (40.2 percent) and among women (53 percent).

The HOPE intervention, she says, has «potential for informing how social media and new technologies can be leveraged to deliver low - cost, novel interventions to prevent prescription opioid abuse and overdose.»

After one year, researchers found that primary care providers felt that treating pain patients was less of a problem in their practice, particularly among the experimental group, although younger practitioners continued to express more concern about prescription opioid use than older practitioners.

«As prescription opioid use is under national scrutiny and because surgery has been identified as an avenue for addiction, it is important to recognize effective alternatives to standard pharmacological therapy, which remains the first option for treatment,» the authors write.

In a perspective in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, Daniel Alford, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine and assistant dean of Continuing Medical Education and director of the Safe and Competent Opioid Prescribing Education (SCOPE of Pain) program at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), recommends that prescriber education is the best approach to addressing the prescription opioid - misuse epidemic, allowing for individualized care on the basis of a patient's needs after a careful benefit - risk assessment.

In the cartogram below, the size of each state reflects the total number of prescription opioid overdose deaths from 1999 — 2014.

«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.

«The U.S. has experienced a 400 percent increase in overdoses due to prescription opioid pain relievers among women of reproductive age between 1999 and 2010, and those deaths are concentrated among white women in rural areas, and those with lower socioeconomic status,» said Jarlenski.

It was not long before data showed dramatic increases in the use prescription opioid medicines by teenagers, Volkow said, and set off alarm bells that «we had a problem with prescription medicines,» a 2003 discovery that was later underscored by a steep increase in overdose deaths among all users.

Lots of parents don't store their prescription opioid painkillers safely away from their young children, a survey last year suggests.

As prescription opioid painkillers claim an alarming number of lives every year, researchers are racing to better understand the brain's response to stress, and to identify alternate interventions, speakers said 18 September at AAAS.

«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.

A surcharge of 2 cents per milligram on prescription opioid drugs that will go toward combating the state's opioid and heroin epidemic.

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.