Sentences with phrase «treating opiate»

A review of that evidence earlier this year led researchers at the University of St. George's London to conclude that oxytocin may hold the key to treating opiate addiction and fending off relapse.

The clinical trial on Vivitrol ® was designed to see if Vivitrol ® was effective for treating opiate addiction, but did not compare it to either of the other approved medications for opiate addiction (methadone or buprenorphine).

Wille said insurance companies should be forced to pay for one of three FDA - approved medications that treat opiate addiction.

Naloxone is used to treat opiate overdoses, such as heroin, morphine and oxycodone.

I have been doing consulting work with Dr. Hatem Hamed in Metairie, LA as part of a team that treats opiate addiction by using Suboxone.

Not exact matches

«Because of a law that was written 15 years ago, before the opiate epidemic was in full force, NPs and PAs are not yet allowed to prescribe this potentially life - saving medication,» said Christene Amabile, a nurse practitioner at Horizon Health Services who spoke in support of the TREAT Act.

Wilber announced the police department, with the help of the Ulster County Sheriff's Office, was recently trained in the use of nasal naloxone, known as Narcan, to treat victims of opiate overdoses.

Based on this idea, a non-addictive morphine derivative called buprenorphine (often prescribed to treat pain or opiate addiction) is now being tested in suicidal people with good early results.

The drugs currently used to treat chronic pain — aspirin and morphine along with other opiates — don't work very well and are often addictive.

According to Kaiser, ibuprofen is equal to better than codeine for treating injury pain, and hydrocodone is also a safer, more effective opiate alternative.

These findings, together with data reported several years ago on the treats» ability to turn on opiate receptors in the brain (SN: 10/12/96, p. 235), threaten to transform the image of chocolate from dietary vice to herbal medicine.

«What we need to know is if it is addicting in pain patients and is it more so than opiate medications,» which are commonly used to treat chronic pain, she says.

Some of the biggest offenders are allergy and asthma drugs, antidepressants, opiate pain killers such as codeine, and the calcium channel blocker drugs used to treat heart disease.

Examples of addictions we treat: alcohol, benzos, caffeine, marijuana, smoking, methamphetamine, opiates / painkillers, and food addiction.

To successfully persuade a hospital trust to look again at the way they were treating my 34 - year - old client who has a chronic pain syndrome and is opiate dependent as a direct consequence.