Medications
First smartphone app to detect opioid overdose and its precursors
At least 115 people die every day in the U.S. after overdosing on opioids, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Jan 9, 2019
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Fentanyl in more than half of opioid deaths in 10 states
A federal report says the powerful painkiller fentanyl was involved in more than half of the recent opioid overdose deaths in 10 states.
Oct 27, 2017
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Addiction
Machine-learning-assisted model addresses overprescribing and underprescribing of opioids
While the COVID-19 epidemic may have taken over the headlines the last two years, the United States remains in the grip of the opioid epidemic. Nearly 70,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses in 2020, the last year for ...
May 4, 2022
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Medications
The dose makes the poison: Opioid overdose study supports call for caution in Rx levels
When it comes to prescription painkillers, the difference between controlling pain and dying from an overdose may come down to how strong a prescription the doctor wrote, according to a new study in veterans.
Feb 1, 2016
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Neuroscience
At least 80% of opioid overdoses aren't fatal. How do they affect the brain?
An opioid overdose isn't a death sentence. In fact, estimates indicate that in the United States, only 4% to 18% of opioid overdoses that are treated in a hospital or pre-hospital setting—such as an ambulance or someone's ...
Aug 30, 2021
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Medications
Drug overdose deaths increase significantly in past five years
Drug overdose deaths have increased by 33 percent in the past five years across the country, with some states seeing jumps of nearly 200 percent.
Dec 16, 2016
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Medications
Naloxone—an antidote to opioid overdose
Naloxone is an opioid antagonist, used as an "antidote" for opioid overdose which includes heroin, and opioid pain medicines such as morphine, fentanyl and codeine. It has been used since the 1970s by ambulance services and ...
Aug 31, 2016
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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
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Medications
Study predicts worsening of overdose crisis, limits of focusing on prescription opioids
A study from investigators at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Institute for Technology Assessment projects that the opioid overdose epidemic in the U.S. is likely to increase in coming years, and that measures based ...
Feb 1, 2019
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Buprenorphine use remained stable during first year of pandemic
The number of active prescriptions for the opioid disorder treatment drug buprenorphine remained constant during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the number of new prescriptions for the treatment was far below ...
Dec 7, 2022
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