Sentences with phrase «prescription opioid painkillers»

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

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.

Of the more than 52,000 deaths due to drug overdose in 2015, prescription opioid painkillers such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine, morphine, and fentanyl accounted for about 20,000.

In Petty's case, prescription opioid painkillers like Fentanyl were not the only drugs in his system.

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

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

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.