Medications
Why Australians are using painkillers for social and emotional suffering
George (Kev) Dertadian has always been interested in challenging the stigmatisation of drug users.
Apr 11, 2019
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Don't suddenly stop taking a prescribed opioid, FDA warns
(HealthDay)—Because of the danger of "serious harm" to patients, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is advising doctors not to suddenly stop patients from taking opioid painkillers, or drastically lower the dose.
Apr 10, 2019
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Medications
Canada opioid deaths top 10,000
More than 10,000 Canadians have died of opioid-related overdoses since a public health crisis erupted in 2016, according to new data released Wednesday.
Apr 10, 2019
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Medications
Fentanyl-linked deaths: The opioid epidemic's third wave
Men are dying after opioid overdoses at nearly three times the rate of women in the United States. Overdose deaths are increasing faster among black and Latino Americans than among whites. And there's an especially steep ...
Mar 22, 2019
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Medications
Overdose deaths from fentanyl soaring: report
(HealthDay)—The number of Americans dying from overdoses of the powerful narcotic fentanyl rose 12-fold in recent years, health officials reported Thursday.
Mar 21, 2019
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Medications
Potentially deadly and memory-killing effect of opioid abuse explored
Doctors treating drug-overdose patients should be on the lookout for abnormal brain swelling, a byproduct of a mysterious syndrome that can be fatal and may cause profound amnesia in survivors, a new study suggests.
Mar 19, 2019
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Medications
Study links cardiac arrests to opioid overdoses
An increasing proportion of all cardiac arrests occurring outside of the hospital are related to drug overdoses, according to a new study conducted by two University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix students.
Mar 13, 2019
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Medications
Opioid crisis brings concerns about heart dangers
Dan Willard doesn't remember a thing from those fateful 48 hours. Not what happened to the 32 pills of prescribed painkiller—nor how his daughter dragged his body from the chair to the floor so she could follow the emergency ...
Mar 7, 2019
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Cardiology
Another side effect of the opioid crisis: Heart infections
(HealthDay)—New research uncovers more damage wrought by the opioid epidemic: Cases of a dangerous heart infection linked to injection drug use have spiked in recent years at an Ohio medical center.
Mar 6, 2019
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Medications
American drug overdose death rates the highest among wealthy nations
In the most comprehensive international comparison of its kind, a USC study found that the United States has the highest drug overdose death rates among a set of high-income countries.
Feb 21, 2019
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