Medications
Two powerful drugs now adding to US overdose crisis
Emerging reports show that two little-known drugs are making lethal new contributions to America's drug overdose crisis.
Jan 27, 2022
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Addiction
Addiction medicine consults help patients with substance use disorder live longer
In-hospital addiction medicine consultations can reduce deaths in high-risk patients with substance use disorder, according to a new study published in theJournal of General Internal Medicine by University of Pittsburgh physicians. This ...
Jan 25, 2022
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Medications
Older adult opioid overdose death rates on the rise
A common stereotype for an "older adult" might include early-bird specials, dentures and tickets to the matinee show.
Jan 11, 2022
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Medications
Opioid use disorder treatment access increases in areas with large Medicaid population
Researchers report that in communities where Medicaid is a more common source of insurance, providers of buprenorphine, an effective treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD), are much less likely to discriminate between Medicaid ...
Jan 4, 2022
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Addiction
U.S. fentanyl deaths soaring, especially in the West
Synthetic forms of the potentially lethal opioid fentanyl are flooding the illicit drug market, leaving a soaring number of fatal overdoses in their wake, a new U.S. report finds.
Dec 14, 2021
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Addiction
State data reveal fentanyl's fatal role across age groups
Use of the illicitly manufactured opioid fentanyl has had an outsize impact on overdose deaths in Washington state – particularly among people under age 30, according to a new analysis published at the University of Washington ...
Dec 8, 2021
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Addiction
New study identifies gaps in treatment for opioid use disorder as overdose emergencies soar
Opioid overdose deaths have reached record highs and emergency physicians have a vital role in potentially saving these patients by prescribing Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) such as buprenorphine, and by prescribing ...
Nov 30, 2021
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Addiction
Researchers warn of next 'wave' of opioid overdose deaths
When Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner Thomas Gilson issued a public health warning earlier this month, the cause wasn't COVID-19—but drugs.
Nov 30, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How the pandemic helped spread fentanyl across the US and drive opioid overdose deaths to a grim new high
For the past 20 years, I have been engaged in efforts to end the opioid epidemic, as a public health official, researcher and clinician. And for every one of those years I have looked on as the number of deaths from drug ...
Nov 23, 2021
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Addiction
Wearable device can detect and reverse opioid overdose
A research team at the University of Washington has developed a wearable device to detect and reverse an opioid overdose. The device, worn on the stomach like an insulin pump, senses when a person stops breathing and moving, ...
Nov 22, 2021
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