Category: opiods

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – WASHINGTON, DC — Opioid prescribing has increased 471 percent from 1996 to 2012, according to a new Annals of Emergency Medicine study

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – CHICAGO – Unused prescription painkillers lying around the home have proven to be a major source of drugs supplying the nation’s opioid epidemic

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – CHAPEL HILL, NC – For the first time, scientists at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and collaborators solved the crystal structure of the activated kappa opioid receptor bound to a morphine derivative.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – People who end up in the hospital due to an opioid-related condition are four times more likely to die now than they were in 2000

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Doctors may be prescribing nearly twice the number of opioids than what the average patient needs after a hysterectomy, a new study suggests.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Rising rates of opioid prescriptions have been linked to the opioid epidemic, and a significant number of opioid deaths have been linked to prescriptions written by surgeons.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A cross-section of opioid prescribers that typically do not prescribe large volumes of opioids, including primary care physicians, surgeons and non-physician health care providers….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – With opioid addiction officially declared a public health emergency in the U.S., medical intervention to treat the illness is increasingly important in responding to the epidemic.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Atlanta, GA, Nov. 7, 2017 – Preliminary research presented today at APHA’s 2017 Annual Meeting and Expo examined the trend in hospitalizations from opioid poisonings in West Virginia, a state heavily impacted by the current opioid overdose crisis.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The New Jersey medical examiner recorded close to 1,600 drug-related deaths in 2015, the most recent year data was collected – a 16 percent increase from the year prior

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – BALTIMORE, MD – A group of experts, led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in collaboration with the Clinton Foundation, today issued a new report….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – WASHINGTON – President Trump’s declaring the opioid epidemic a national health emergency is a critical first step, but it does not address the urgent need for more federal funds to fight this crisis

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Using advanced machine learning, a cross disciplinary team of University of California San Diego researchers developed technology that mined Twitter to identify entities illegally selling prescription opioids online.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A new study published in Annals of Emergency Medicinesheds light on where in the medical setting people are being prescribed opioids.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – BOSTON – Opioid-free general anesthesia is safe, effective and dramatically decreases postoperative nausea

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – BOSTON – While the breakneck upswing in opioid abuse has leveled off, it remains disturbingly high and does not appear to continue its decline

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Washington, D.C. – Research presented this week at The Liver Meeting® – held by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases – shows people in treatment for opioid substance abuse…

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ANN ARBOR, Mich. — How many prescription pain pills should a patient receive after breast cancer surgery? Or a hernia repair? Or a gallbladder removal?

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The opioid crisis in America is real, it is lethal, and it may be killing the nice family that lives next door to you.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Opioid medications prescribed for pain management after plastic surgery may contribute to the ongoing opioid epidemic