What to know about being given opioids after surgery to take at home
Opioids are commonly prescribed when you're discharged from hospital after surgery to help manage pain at home.
Jun 19, 2024
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Heterocyclic Compounds: News and Research on Codeine
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New Danish report claims improvements in counseling for young people may dispel myth that opioids are harmless
A wide range of measures, including anonymous and targeted counseling, are needed to reduce the use of illegal opioids and benzodiazepines among young people. This is the conclusion of the Criminological Observatory at the ...
Jun 7, 2024
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Almost 1 in 3 Americans know someone who's died from a drug overdose
As the opioid addiction crisis continues to lay waste to American life, a new survey finds that nearly a third of U.S. adults now know someone who's died of a drug overdose.
Jun 1, 2024
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Your child has been prescribed opioids: 7 ways to use them more safely
Imagine your teen has just had surgery. After a few days in hospital, it is time to go home, but their pain is still quite significant. The medical team suggests using acetaminophen (Tylenol) and ibuprofen (Advil) first, ...
Apr 8, 2024
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First-ever public database of nationwide opioid transactions
The weight of the opioid crisis is heavy.
Feb 27, 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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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.
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