First-ever public database of nationwide opioid transactions
The weight of the opioid crisis is heavy.
Feb 27, 2024
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Heterocyclic Compounds: News and Research on Morphine Derivatives
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Preventing relapse by restoring an opioid-weakened brain pathway governing behavior
Medical University of South Carolina scientists report in Neuron that they have uncovered a way to restore an opioid-weakened brain pathway in a preclinical model.
Feb 21, 2024
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Q&A: Nitazenes are a powerful class of street drugs emerging across the US
Two deaths in Boulder County, Colorado, in 2023 are the latest in the U.S. to be blamed on the powerful class of synthetic opioids called nitazenes. Most health systems cannot detect nitazenes, so the exact number of overdoses ...
Feb 15, 2024
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Parents warned of killer fake pills laced with fentanyl
The DEA has posted a chilling two-page warning to parents on fake pills—pills that can kill. The "One Pill/Can Kill" campaign kicks off with a warning that fentanyl "is a deadly synthetic opioid" pressed into bogus pills ...
Feb 7, 2024
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Records show Publix opioid sales grew even as addiction crisis prompted other chains' pullback
An executive at Teva Pharmaceuticals flagged Publix Super Markets in October 2015 after detecting what he called in an email "serious red flags" with the grocery chain's orders of powerful opioids.
Feb 1, 2024
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Ketamine fueled actor Matthew Perry's death, but new study says it may help others
Ketamine has been in the headlines recently, implicated in the high-profile death of "Friends" actor Matthew Perry in October. But can the powerful drug also be helpful to those suffering from opioid addiction?
Jan 17, 2024
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Study: About 22 adolescents died weekly from overdoses in 2022, driven by fentanyl-laced prescription pills
An average of 22 adolescents 14 to 18 years of age died in the U.S. each week in 2022 from drug overdoses, raising the death rate for this group to 5.2 per 100,000—driven by fentanyl in counterfeit pills, new research finds.
Jan 8, 2024
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Personalized protocol cuts opioid prescribing after C-section, suggests study
A personalized protocol for opioid prescriptions after cesarean delivery reduces the median morphine milligram equivalents prescribed at discharge, according to a study recently published in the American Journal of Obstetrics ...
Jan 3, 2024
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Surgery patients now less likely to get opioids—but decline has slowed, study shows
Post-surgery pain relief has shifted away from opioid-containing medications over the past seven years, but the downward trend has slowed since 2020, a new study shows.
Dec 7, 2023
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White patients more likely than Black patients to be given opioid medication for pain in US emergency departments: Study
White people who visit hospital emergency departments with pain are 26% more likely than Black people to be given opioid pain medications such as morphine. This was a key finding from our recent study, published in the Journal ...
Oct 27, 2023
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