Tag: opioid addiction
Painkiller misuse is nearly doubled among the uninsured
Lack of access to health insurance coverage virtually doubles the odds of painkiller misuse, according to the latest edition of the Behavioral Health Barometer...
FDA announces public meeting on abuse-deterrent opioids
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has announced that the FDA will host a two-day public meeting to consider whether or not abuse-deterrent...
Anti-heroin vaccine closer to reality, stops ‘high’ in primates
Scientists have broken new ground with a vaccine that stops the high of heroin. The experts from the Virginia Commonwealth University and the Scripps...
What happens when surgeons limit postoperative opioid prescriptions?
What would happen if surgeons limited the number of opioid prescriptions written to manage postoperative pain among patients that had common surgeries? According to...
Odds of prescription opioid addiction rises sharply after 5 days of...
Patients who use prescription opioids for more than three days are more likely to become long-term users, with a sharp increase in probability occurring...
National Governors Association sponsors opioid addiction recovery learning lab for prisons
The National Governors Association (NGA) has partnered with eight states to provide a learning lab that will focus on the development and implementation of...
Opioid use disorder raises odds of death by ten times in...
A recent study found that individuals with opioid use disorders who received medical services in a university health system were 10 times more likely...
Gov’t agencies, orgs discuss opioid epidemic at national Rx conference
Key figures in the battle against the opioid epidemic gathered at the National Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit in Atlanta, Georgia last week...
1.5 million Americans with mental illness misused opioids last year
Approximately 11.7 million adults in the U.S. (4.8 percent) have misused opioids within the past year, and roughly 9.8 million adults (4.0 percent) struggled...
Research finds that weight-loss pill can be helpful in opioid addiction...
Researchers found that people looking to recover from an opioid addiction could benefit from a weight-loss drug: lorcaserin.
The pill, marketed as Belviq, was...
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