Medications
Opioid overdoses in ERs up 30 percent as crisis worsens
Emergency rooms saw a big jump in overdoses from opioids last year—the latest evidence the nation's drug crisis is getting worse.
Mar 6, 2018
0
5
Page 27 - News tagged with opioid deaths
Medications
Xanax, valium looking like America's next drug crisis
(HealthDay)—America is well aware of its opioid epidemic, but there's a hidden crisis brewing with prescription sedatives such as Xanax and Valium, a new review warns.
Feb 22, 2018
0
41
Addiction
Debunking claims about medical marijuana
In 1996, California became the first US state to legalise marijuana use for medical purposes. Medical marijuana is now legal in 29 states. Opponents of medical marijuana argue that such laws increase recreational marijuana ...
Feb 22, 2018
1
32
Medications
Opioid addiction treatment behind bars reduced post-incarceration overdose deaths in RI
A treatment program for opioid addiction launched by the Rhode Island Department of Corrections was associated with a significant drop in post-incarceration drug overdose deaths and contributed to an overall drop in overdose ...
Feb 14, 2018
0
30
Health
Study questions link between medical marijuana and fewer opioid deaths
The association between medical marijuana and lower levels of opioid overdose deaths—identified previously in several studies—is more complex than previously described and appears to be changing as both medical marijuana ...
Feb 6, 2018
0
65
Medications
Weather patterns, farm income, other factors, may be influencing opioid crisis
The overprescribing of opioid-based painkillers may be the main driver of the increased abuse of opioids in rural America, but economists say that other factors, including declining farm income, extreme weather and other ...
Jan 24, 2018
0
5
Medications
An emergency response to Canada's opioid overdose crisis
To help address the opioid overdose epidemic, Canada should develop a regulated program to distribute opioids and prevent deaths, argues a commentary in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
Jan 15, 2018
0
8
Medications
Patient education brochure provides low-cost solution to avoid diversion of unused opioids
Unused prescription painkillers lying around the home have proven to be a major source of drugs supplying the nation's opioid epidemic,1 but a new patient education brochure that describes safe disposal practices of unused ...
Jan 11, 2018
0
3
Medications
Stigma continues to hamper response to opioid epidemic
Efforts to reverse the nation's opioid epidemic remain beset by the stigma associated with drug use, a group of OHSU researchers write in a year-end review.
Jan 10, 2018
0
4
Medications
Nearly one-third of Canadians have used opioids: study
Nearly one in three Canadians (29 percent) have used "some form of opioids" in the past five years, according to data released Tuesday as widespread fentanyl overdoses continue to kill.
Jan 9, 2018
0
8
