Sentences with phrase «receiving opioid medications»

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People who received prescriptions for opioid painkillers in the months before elective abdominal operations had longer hospital stays, and a higher chance of needing follow - up care in a hospital or rehabilitation facility, than patients who weren't taking such medications before they had the same operations, the study finds.

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

A majority of the women prescribed opioids, 96 percent, were prescribed short - acting medications, while 2 percent received maintenance doses and less than 1 percent received long - acting opioids.

In a recent study, nearly half of all veterans who died from drug overdoses while prescribed opioids for pain were also receiving benzodiazepines, or benzos, which are common medications for the treatment of anxiety, insomnia and alcohol withdrawal.

Patients receiving long - term opioid therapy for chronic pain sometimes demonstrate challenging and concerning behaviors, such as using more opioid medication than prescribed or concomitant alcohol or drug use.

Additionally, patients appropriate for medication - assisted treatment could receive a prescription for buprenorphine, a medication used to combat opioid addiction.

Only one in four young adults and teens with opioid use disorder (OUD) are receiving potentially life - saving medications for addiction treatment, according to a new Boston Medical Center (BMC) study published online in JAMA Pediatrics.

The letter raises urgent concerns about woefully inadequate resources and the abrupt and inhumane discontinuation of medication for patients who do receive Opioid Substitution Therapy.