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Persistent, Prolonged Opioid Use Occurs After Plastic Surgery drugs
March 08, 2019
Persistent and prolonged opioid use occur after plastic and reconstructive surgical procedures, according to a study published online March 7 in JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery.
Could medical marijuana help grandma and grandpa with their ailments worldpharmanews
March 01, 2019
Medical marijuana may bring relief to older people who have symptoms like pain, sleep disorders or anxiety due to chronic conditions including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...
Study examines long-term opioid use in patients with severe osteoarthritis worldpharmanews
February 01, 2019
Long-term use of prescription opioids for the treatment of chronic pain carries the risk of dependence and other serious harms
UK researchers investigate alternatives to long-term opioid use pharmaphorum
January 22, 2019
A UK university has been awarded £2.4 million to research overprescribing of opioids, and how to improve treatment of patients with persistent pain without long-term use of these morphine-like drugs.
Pharma sales rep regulations proposal stalls in Philadelphia, but the battle's not over yet fiercepharma
January 08, 2019
Big Pharma got a reprieve in Philadelphia last month, but only temporarily. Philadelphia's city council paused its proposal to regulate pharmaceutical sales reps when the bill’s co-sponsors pulled it at the final meeting
Pediatric Mortality Rate From Opioid Poisoning Rose 1999 to 2016 drugs
January 04, 2019
From 1999 to 2016, there was close to a threefold increase in the pediatric mortality rate from opioid poisonings in the United States, according to a study published online Dec. 28 in JAMA Network Open.....
Can Herbal Drug Kratom Kill? drugs
January 03, 2019
The herbal drug kratom, which U.S. drug regulators have said is essentially an opioid, has been linked to some narcotic overdose deaths, but whether it's dangerous by itself isn't clear......
Opioid Overdose Deaths Triple Among Teens, Kids drugs
December 29, 2018
In the past two decades, opioid overdose death rates among U.S. kids and teens have tripled, a new study shows.Young children have either died from accidental ingestion of .....
Opioid OD Deaths Soaring Among Native Americans drugs
December 21, 2018
As the epidemic of opioid addiction rips through the United States, one group is being hit especially hard: Native Americans.During the years 2013-2015, the rate of fatal opioid overdoses was.....
FDA Advisory Panels: Prescribe Naloxone With Opioid Painkillers drugs
December 20, 2018
The labels of prescription opioid painkillers should advise doctors to consider simultaneously prescribing the opioid overdose antidote naloxone, two U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panels recommend......

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