Sentences with phrase «treats opioid analgesics»

Over the next three years, between 1,000 and 1,500 new providers will be trained and authorized to prescribe buprenorphine, a medication that treats opioid analgesics use by stopping cravings and preventing withdrawal symptoms.

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.

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The group would monitor the extent and complications of opioid addiction; spread awareness of symptoms and aftereffects through seminars and workshops; monitor and assess the state of and improvements in treatment modalities; interface with manufacturers, retailers, and physicians offering products to treat pain; pressure the medical community to reduce availability of addictive analgesics and advocate for nonaddictive substitutes, and maintain an interface between treatment programs and similar programs targeted at youth, health care, aging, and housing.

The study also found no evidence that states with medical marijuana laws experience reductions in the volume of legally distributed opioid analgesics used to treat pain.

Scientists from the University of Granada have taken part, alongside the Esteve laboratory, in the development of a new drug that multiplies the analgesic effect of opioids (drugs for treating intense pain), without increasing constipation, one of the most common side - effects of these drugs, among which is morphine.