California has allocated more than $1 billion in recent years to combat its opioid crisis. Much of the money has been used to distribute fentanyl test strips and the overdose reversal drug naloxone, as well as deliver medical ...
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A new study sheds light on an understudied aspect of today's opioid crisis: What happens to the cardiovascular health of babies exposed to opioids in the womb. The outcomes of the study suggest that children born to mothers ...
Apr 19, 2023
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Clinicians and other professionals trying to stop the opioid crisis in the United States need all the tools they can to accurately identify communities at risk of large increases in deaths from opioid use and prevent deaths. ...
Mar 23, 2023
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A recent study published in the Journal of Dental Research (JDR) has compared the effectiveness of ten pharmacological interventions in order to develop guidelines for acute pain management after tooth extraction in adults.
Jan 30, 2023
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The number of American teenagers becoming addicted to opioids is on the rise, yet fewer are being prescribed a medication that can help them, a new government study finds.
Jan 24, 2023
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A group of scientists say they've created a safer version of fentanyl that could potentially diminish the drug's addictive side effects, which have resulted in annual deaths of tens of thousands of people across the United ...
Jan 23, 2023
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A study from researchers at Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital and the University of Rhode Island found that pharmacists—not just physicians at clinics and doctor's offices—can safely and effectively start patients ...
Jan 11, 2023
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The US Justice Department sued leading drug distributor AmerisourceBergen Thursday, alleging that despite the country's addiction crisis the company has failed to report suspicious pharmacy orders for addictive opioids as ...
Dec 29, 2022
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Due to public health issues like the opioid crisis and the global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, innovative cities have turned to new technologies to better understand the risks to their communities.
Dec 7, 2022
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Another major pharmacy chain has offered billions to settle claims for its role in the opioid epidemic.
Nov 15, 2022
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