Tag: prescription misuse
Nearly 92 million adults used prescription opioids, new gov’t report
Over one-third of the American adult population were past-year users of prescription opioids at least once in 2015, according to a new government report...
FDA requests removal of opioid Opana from the market
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requesting that the company Endo Pharmaceuticals remove its opioid painkiller Opana ER (oxymorphone) from the market...
Opioid addiction rates up nearly 500 percent in 7 years
The increase of Americans diagnosed with opioid addiction continues to escalate dramatically, but a very low number of them receive drug rehab, a new...
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...
Non-oral use of prescription opioids doubles risks of death
Prescription opioids are most commonly used and abused orally, but some people alter their medications and use non-oral methods of administration to experience enhanced...
Heroin-related overdose deaths triple in 5 years, new report
Approximately 25 percent of all drug-related overdose fatalities in the U.S. involved heroin in 2015, a threefold increase from 2010, according to a government...
Young adults struggle with barriers to addiction treatment access
Young adults struggling with nonmedical prescription opioid substance use disorders face several barriers to addiction treatment access including patient-level barriers, provider-level barriers, health care...
Prescription opioid use in decline for high school seniors
Prescription opioid consumption is decreasing nationwide among high school seniors, a study revealed this month.
The research, published in the journal Pediatrics, examined data from...
Prescription misuse impacts more than 70 percent of employers in the...
On March 9, the National Safety Council (NSC) released a nationwide survey showing that more than 70 percent of American employers are directly impacted...
Understanding the value of prescription drug monitoring programs
Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) are important tools in curbing the opioid crisis and reducing the need for addiction treatment. These are state-run databases...
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