Sentences with phrase «reduce opioid abuse»

Doctors at the hearing said studies show legal marijuana can reduce opioid abuse.

Instead of a taking a clinical approach to reducing opioid abuse, which often involves prescribing alternative medications such as naloxone, the study seeks to change behavior.

Not exact matches

Walmart's offer of free DisposeRX is just the latest in a series of efforts by pharmacies to reduce the risk that opioids will be diverted from their appropriate use as painkillers and abused by either the original customer or another person.

Five months after the implementation of new opioid prescription guidelines at a University of Michigan hospital, roughly 7,000 fewer pills went home with patients — a drop that might reduce the risk of accessible pills leading to substance abuse.

The declining price of heroin, together with regulatory efforts designed to reduce harms associated with the use of prescription opioids — including the availability of abuse - deterrent formulations — may be contributing to increased heroin use, the report says.

Their new approach also reduces the potential for drug abuse and avoids the most common side effects — sedation and anxiety — of drugs designed to target the nervous system's kappa opioid receptors (KORs).

Because it reduces demand for opioids, buprenorphine therapy is an effective deterrence strategy to combat opioid abuse.

by Governor Tom Wolf Pittsburgh Post-Gazette After months of negotiations and compromise, Pennsylvania has secured a 2016 - 2017 state budget that increases funding for schools, devotes resources to battle the opioid - abuse epidemic and reduces the deficit.