Sentences with phrase «treat opioid overdoses»

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Prince's heirs have sued Walgreens and the Illinois hospital that treated the music superstar after he suffered from an opioid overdose, alleging that a doctor and various pharmacists failed to provide Prince with reasonable care, contributing to his death.

More providers will be trained and authorized to prescribe buprenorphine, a medication that treats opioid analgesics use, and pharmacies across the city will offer naloxone, which can reverse the effects of opioid overdose, without a prescription.

In 2018 we will once again be leading the way in new approaches to treating opioid addiction and overdoses.

When someone comes to the hospital because of an heroin or opioid overdose, doctors will treat their symptoms and often recommend an outpatient center, Koch said.

In May of 2015, after a scourge of opioid overdoses in the City of Gloucester, Chief Campanello announced a new plan to treat opioid addiction.

«At this time, when prescription opioid use and opioid overdoses are both major threats to our public health, it is important to identify new treatment targets, such as epigenetic processes, that help to change the way that we do business in treating opioid use disorders,» said professor John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry.

Among other initiatives needed are more rigorous analysis of the potency of illicit drugs being sold on the streets, information campaigns to inform the public of the analyses results and likely dangers, more treatment therapies to ease withdrawal symptoms, programs to get primary care doctors to treat and screen for addictions and wider distribution of Naltrexone, which can reverse an opioid overdose, said Ciccarone.

The findings, published online ahead of print in the Annals of Internal Medicine, highlight the challenges faced by physicians to balance the known risks with potential benefits of prescription opioids for patients with chronic pain and reinforces the importance of developing tools that will help better identify and treat patients at risk for opioid use disorders and / or overdose.

Utilizing Optum, a large national commercial insurance claims database with data on 50 million individuals over a 12 year period, the researchers identified nearly 3,000 individuals who were prescribed opioids for chronic pain that had been treated in the emergency department and / or as an inpatient following a nonfatal opioid overdose.

The commentary calls upon health care providers to expand their use of medications to treat opioid addiction and reduce overdose deaths, and describes a number of misperceptions that have limited access to these potentially life - saving medications.

Since the resurgence of opioid - based medications to treat pain in the 1990s, the drugs have become the primary source of fatal overdoses in the United States.

With an estimated 60,000 drug overdose deaths in 2016 alone, the researchers emphasize the need for the American health care system to embrace medications such as methadone to treat opioid use disorder, provide addiction treatment in primary care clinics and develop non-addictive alternatives for chronic pain.

Researchers also noted that little is known about the efficacy and safety of off - label use of naloxone for treating overdoses related to newly emerging illicit uses of more powerful opioids such as fentanyl and fentanyl derivatives.

«Hospital - based clinicians frequently treat patients with acute pain, and although opioids may sometimes be beneficial in this setting, they do carry the risk of adverse events including inadvertent overdose and physical dependence,» said lead author Shoshana J. Herzig, MD, MPH, Director of Hospital Medicine Research in BIDMC's Division of General Medicine and Primary Care Sections of Hospital Medicine and Research.

One of these novel treatments might include the administration of naloxone, an opioid blocker used to treat opioid drug overdoses, to slow the rate of food consumption.

According to the CDC, 91 Americans die every day from opioid overdose, and over 1,000 people are treated in the emergency room each day for misuse of opioid medications.

«Prince's heirs have sued Walgreens and the Illinois hospital that treated the music superstar after he suffered from an opioid overdose, alleging that a doctor and various pharmacists failed to provide Prince with reasonable care, contributing to his death.»