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CDC Issues Proposed Changes to Opioid Painkiller Guidelines
drugs.com
February 10, 2022
Proposed changes to voluntary federal guidelines for prescribing opioid painkillers emphasize that doctors should first try other treatments for acute and chronic pain.
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Opioid Use By Teens a Red Flag for Other Dangers
drugs
January 07, 2020
Teenagers who've experimented with opioid painkillers are likely to be taking other health risks, a new study finds. In a national survey of U.S. high school students, 14% said they had ever "misused" a prescription opioid such as Vicodin ...
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FDA: Patients Should Not Abruptly Stop Taking a Prescribed Opioid
drugs
April 11, 2019
FDA: Patients Should Not Abruptly Stop Taking a Prescribed Opioid.
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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 .....
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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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Concomitant usage of sleeping pills and painkillers is common among people with AD
expressbpd
November 20, 2018
One in five people with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) who use a benzodiazepine are also concomitant users of an opioid, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland. Concomitant use was more common in comparison persons, but those with AD us
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Painkillers in pregnancy may affect baby’s future fertility
europeanpharmaceuticalreview
April 24, 2018
Taking painkillers during pregnancy could affect the fertility of the unborn child in later life, research suggests…
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Painkillers in pregnancy may affect baby’s future fertility
europeanpharmaceuticalreview
April 18, 2018
Taking painkillers during pregnancy could affect the fertility of the unborn child in later life, research suggests…
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Some Docs May Help Fuel Opioid Abuse Epidemic
drugs.com
February 16, 2017
You may be more likely to wind up a long-term user of opioid painkillers if you're treated by a doctor who frequently prescribes those drugs, a new study reports.