Sentences with phrase «prevent prescription opioid»
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.»
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A subsequent opioid risk reduction initiative included standards for patient monitoring and urine drug screening, periodic monitoring visits, and modifications to the prescription refill process to prevent urgent refill requests.
Scientists are searching for a different kind of shot to prevent such tragedies: a vaccine to counter addiction to heroin and other opioids, such as the prescription painkiller fentanyl and similar knockoff drugs.
«Overall, our results suggest a connection between opioid and heroin use and heroin - related adverse outcomes at the population level, implying that frequent nonmedical users of prescription opioids, regardless of race or ethnicity, should be the focus of public health efforts to prevent and mitigate the harms of heroin use.»
As the opioid crisis persists across America, it's becoming increasingly important to examine other ways of preventing and managing pain, as well as treating addiction to prescription opioids.
Without that money, the U.S. can't stem the tide of the opioid epidemic, says Chrissie Juliano, director of the Big Cities Health Coalition, because it is used for programs designed to prevent opioid addiction, such as prescription drug monitoring.