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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Older Black and Hispanic patients with advanced cancer are less likely than white patients to receive opioid medications for pain relief in the last weeks of life, according to a study led by investigators at Harvard-affiliated ...
Jan 18, 2023
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Despite the fact that a record 107,000 Americans died of fatal drug overdoses last year, patients in need of treatment are forced to navigate a punishing gauntlet to get the care they need, a group of addiction medicine specialists ...
Dec 12, 2022
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Legalization of medical marijuana is associated with a reduction in opioid dispensing and pain-related hospital events among adults receiving treatment for newly diagnosed cancers, according to a study published online Dec. ...
Dec 5, 2022
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People taking prescription opioids are more than twice as likely to be involved in a car accident than those who aren't, research has shown. In fact, between the early 1990s and early 2010s, as opioid use rose sharply in ...
Dec 2, 2022
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Opioid-related overdose is now a leading cause of accidental death in the United States and Canada. A study published December 1 in the open access journal PLOS Medicine by Mary Clare Kennedy at University of British Columbia, ...
Dec 1, 2022
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While police officers are often dispatched alongside other first responders when drug overdoses are reported, an analysis of hundreds of overdose events in one Rhode Island city found that there were scant incidents that ...
Nov 7, 2022
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Getting a new knee or hip can be life-changing, but first you have to get through the recovery after surgery.
Oct 21, 2022
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Patients can recover from orthopedic surgery just as well without using opioid-based painkillers, says a McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association ...
Oct 4, 2022
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Medical cannabis could be an important alternative to opioids when managing pain, a new study of thousands of patients concludes.
Sep 27, 2022
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