Sentences with phrase «prescription opioid pain medications»

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.

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Many experts say the prescription painkiller epidemic started when physicians began over-prescribing powerful opioid medications, a well - meaning attempt to more aggressively treat patients» pain.

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand brought her campaign to fight the scourge of opioid addiction and death to the City of Newburgh on Friday where she announced new legislation that will target the epidemic at one of its key sources: opioid pain medication prescriptions.

Some people who have primarily abused opioid pain medication have turned to gabapentin after crackdowns made it more difficult to obtain opioid prescriptions or purchase the drug on the street because of its expense.

When people die from overdoses of opioids, whether prescription pain medications or street drugs, it is the suppression of breathing that almost always kills them.

Within the past 10 years, the prescription of opioids for the treatment of chronic pain has increased and the abuse of opioid medications leading to addiction has been described as epidemic.

Practitioner knowledge about opioids, concerns about pain medication prescriptions, practice behavior, and attitudes of managing chronic pain patients were assessed.

Use and misuse of opioids — morphine and related drugs, including prescription pain medications — has risen rapidly in recent years, leading the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to declare a nationwide «opioid epidemic.»

Overall, seven percent of patients received a prescription for an opioid pain medication (such as hydrocodone or oxycodone).

An interim treatment can get people medication sooner: As the opioid crisis continues to escalate, the number of people who need treatment for their dependency on heroin or prescription pain killers far exceeds the capacity of available treatment programs.

The growing availability of prescription opioids has increased risks for people undergoing treatment for pain and created an environment and marketplace of diversion, where people who are not seeking these medications for medical reasons abuse and sell the drugs because they can produce a high.

Finally, look at your prescriptions... the number one culprit is opioid (pain) medications, but did you know certain blood pressure medications known as diuretics can leave us dehydrated and depleted in magnesium, a major cause of constipation.