New research has found that prenatal exposure to prescription opioids, such as oxycodone, methadone and codeine, may impact the development of immune systems.
Jan 18, 2024
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Post-surgery pain relief has shifted away from opioid-containing medications over the past seven years, but the downward trend has slowed since 2020, a new study shows.
Dec 7, 2023
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The long-term use of painkillers from a young age may be linked to an increased risk of poor mental health later in life. This is according to research led by scientists at the University of Liverpool and St George's, University ...
Nov 16, 2023
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Americans who have a tooth pulled or another painful dental procedure in the United States today are far less likely to get opioid painkillers than they were just a few years ago, a new study shows.
Nov 2, 2023
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Researchers at the University of Warwick and The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesborough have led a clinical trial on a new treatment which can help people stop needing to use opioid painkillers to manage chronic pain. ...
May 23, 2023
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Researchers at the University of Alberta are using a form of artificial intelligence to help doctors better predict which patients are at risk of adverse outcomes from opioid prescriptions.
Feb 16, 2023
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Strict safety protocols for prescribing opioids may have an unintended consequence: Some surgeons seem to be prescribing opioid painkillers to the spouses of patients undergoing surgery, according to a recent study led by ...
Jan 4, 2023
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Over the past 21 years of opioid overdose deaths—from prescription drugs to heroin to synthetic and semisynthetic opioids such as fentanyl—geography has played a role in where opioid-involved overdose deaths have occurred, ...
Jul 28, 2022
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In 2019, more than 10 million Americans misused prescription opioids—1.6 million of them for the first time. Patients who undergo surgery are three times more likely to get an opioid prescription than those who do not have ...
Jul 25, 2022
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Adults who have at some time in their life used psilocybin—a psychedelic substance produced by some types of mushrooms—are 30% less likely to have opioid use disorder, according to a nationally representative survey of ...
Apr 7, 2022
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