Medications
FDA approves 1st generic nasal spray against opioid overdose
(HealthDay)—The first generic naloxone nasal spray to treat opioid overdose has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Apr 19, 2019
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Naloxone access law in Pennsylvania falls short
A new study from researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago finds that only one-third of pharmacies in Philadelphia carry naloxone nasal spray, a medication used to rapidly counter the effects of opioid overdose, ...
Jun 7, 2019
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Study: As naloxone treatment becomes more widespread, heroin use is not on the rise among adolescents
The adoption of laws around naloxone use is not associated with changes in adolescent lifetime heroin or injection drug use (IDU), finds a new study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. According to latest ...
Mar 6, 2023
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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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Harvard specialist focuses on opioid crisis as U.S. life expectancy drops
Life expectancy in the U.S. declined in 2017, largely because of increases in suicide and lethal overdose, according to reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dec 11, 2018
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KY commission hears from experts on promise of psychedelic to treat opioid addiction
Karen Butcher, whose son died in 2020 of an opioid overdose, asked a panel of experts on Monday in Frankfort: If cost wasn't a factor, why shouldn't Kentucky explore the use of an illicit psychedelic drug as a treatment for ...
Jul 23, 2023
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Medicaid patients continue high prescription opioid use after overdose
Despite receiving medical attention for an overdose, patients in Pennsylvania Medicaid continued to have persistently high prescription opioid use, with only slight increases in use of medication-assisted treatment, according ...
Aug 22, 2017
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Combining opioids with anti-anxiety medicines linked to greater risk of overdose
Taking opioids (strong prescription painkillers) together with benzodiazepines (widely used to treat anxiety and sleep problems) is associated with greater risk of opioid overdose, finds a study in The BMJ today.
Mar 14, 2017
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On the front lines of the heroin epidemic, offering a lifesaving treatment
Deaths from opioid overdose are at an all-time high across the United States, and Birmingham has been hit particularly hard. In the past four years, heroin overdose deaths in Jefferson County and surrounding areas rose from ...
Jul 27, 2015
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Offering medications for opioid addiction to incarcerated individuals leads to decrease in overdose deaths, study shows
New research from Boston Medical Center concluded that offering medications to treat opioid addiction in jails and prisons leads to a decrease in overdose deaths. Published in JAMA Network Open, the study also found that ...
Apr 14, 2023
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