(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Chemotherapy can induce a painful peripheral neuropathy (CIPN), a chronic condition and common adverse effect for cancer patients undergoing treatment.
Category: opiods
Patient Support Programs for Painful Conditions May Reduce Opioid Use
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Programs that provide ongoing support to patients with painful conditions and complex medication regimens may also help them avoid using potentially risky opioid pain medications, or reduce the amount they use, a new study finds.
Efforts to Reduce Opioid Prescriptions May Be Hindering End-of-life Pain Management
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – PORTLAND, Ore. – Policies designed to prevent the misuse of opioids may have the unintended side effect of limiting access to the pain-relieving drugs by terminally ill patients nearing the end of their life
COVID-19 Reduces Access to Opioid Dependency Treatment for New Patients
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – COVID-19 has been associated with increases in opioid overdose deaths, which may be in part because the pandemic limited access to buprenorphine, a treatment used for opioid dependency….
Drug Historian Offers Insight on Dramatic Surge of Opioid Overdoses
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released recently show that deaths from opioid overdoses surged during the pandemic.
Researchers Find Large Trade of Opioids on the Dark Web
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A string of opioid trade sites on the dark web have been uncovered by researchers with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Biomedical Informatics.
Carrying Naloxone Can Save Lives but Newly Abstinent Opioid Users Resist
(HelthNewsDigest.com) – Opioids are the main driver of fatal drug overdoses in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, resulting in 46,802 deaths in 2018, usually because the person stops breathing.
What Can a Forgotten Chapter in America’s History of Opioid Addiction and Treatment Teach Us Today?
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – As the nation struggles with the third wave of a continuing opioid epidemic, a newly republished book co-authored by Nancy Campbell, the head of the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, offers insight….
More Evidence is Urgently Needed on Opioid Use in Black Communities
(HealthewsDigest.com) – Although the prevalence of opioid use among Black people is comparatively low, the rate of opioid deaths has increased the sharpest and fastest among that population in recent years
Opioid Overdose Reduced in Patients Taking Buprenorphine
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, opioid misuse has continued unabated in the United States, with an estimated 2.5 million or more Americans suffering from opioid use disorder.
Financial Incentives for Hospitals Boost Rapid Changes to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – PHILADELPHIA— Hospital emergency departments (EDs) not only care for patients with overdose and other complications from opioid use, but they also serve as vital touch points to engage patients into longer-term treatment.
Three Longtime Antibiotics Could Offer Alternative to Addictive Opioid Pain Relievers
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – DALLAS – Feb. 22, 2021 – Three decades-old antibiotics administered together can block a type of pain triggered by nerve damage in an animal model
High Patient Uptake for Text Message System Monitoring Opioid Use in Real-Time
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – PHILADELPHIA— After more than 1,000 orthopaedic procedures at a city health system, roughly 61 percent of the opioids prescribed to patients went unused, according to new research.
Mexico’s Poor Have Little Luck Obtaining Opioids Intended for Palliative Care
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – If you’re poor and terminally ill in southern Mexico, there’s far less chance you’ll get the painkillers you need for palliative care than your cousins in more prosperous regions, particularly those pharmacy-rich areas along Mexico–U.S. border
Patients Who Take Opioids for Pain Can’t Get in the Door at More Than Half of Primary Care Clinics
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – People who take opioid medications for chronic pain may have a hard time finding a new primary care clinic that will take them on as a patient if they need one
Why Opioids Cannot Fix Chronic Pain
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A broken heart is often harder to heal than a broken leg. Now researchers say that a broken heart can contribute to lasting chronic pain.
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Surgeon Establishes First-Ever Guidelines for Pediatric Opioid Prescribing
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – According to the National Institutes of Health, opioid misuse and addiction in the United States is a national crisis, with an economic burden upwards of $78 billion.
Opioid Epidemic Leads to More, Younger People Having Heart Valve Operations
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ROCHESTER, Minn. ― The opioid epidemic in the U.S. is becoming a bigger problem medically, socially and financially, and the COVID-19 pandemic has made it worse, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
Significant Decline in Prescription Opioid Abuse Seen Among Americans at Last
(HealthNewsDgest.com) – CHICAGO – Almost 20 years into the opioid epidemic, there finally is evidence of significant and continual decreases in the abuse of these risky pain medications
Study Identifies Shortcomings in FDA Evaluations for New Opioid Drug Approvals Over Two Decades
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Approvals of prescription opioids by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over more than two decades have been based on evaluations in narrowly defined patient groups for which certain safety-related outcomes….