Alabama prisons expand opioid addiction recovery program
The medications “help to bridge that gap between 'I want to get clean' and getting clean," a prisons official said.
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Opioid Prescribing in EDs Entails Low Risk for Harm
When prescribing opioids for acute pain, physicians should be attentive to a patient’s individual risk factors, according to ...
Poor sleep and addiction go hand in hand − understanding how could lead to new treatments for opioid use disorder
For patients with psychiatric conditions from addiction to mood disorders such as depression, disrupted sleep can often ...
I'm an addiction doctor, and I can't get lifesaving meds for many of my patients
Opioid overdoses kill each day. But it's easier to access fentanyl in Arizona than the medications that can help keep people ...
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Use of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder in Older Adults Shows Disparities
Despite an increase in the use of medication for opioid use disorder in older adults from 2017 to 2022, disparities persist; ...
How opioid deaths tripled in Philly over a decade − and what may be behind a recent downturn
After nearly a decade of annual upticks in overdose deaths, the city saw a drop in 2023, the latest data available. Something ...
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Use of genetic variants to predict opioid use disorder risk may lead to inaccurate results
Candidate genetic variants included in a genetic risk algorithm may not meet standards of reasonable clinical efficacy in identifying opioid use disorder risk, according to a study published in JAMA ...
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Podcast: Chronic Pain Patients Are Addicts? Anti-opioid Zealots Say 'Yes'
With opioid prescriptions plummeting and no more pharma companies to sue, America's drug warriors are running out of bogeymen ...
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Preventing harms from first prescriptions of opioids
See related article at KEY POINTS Opioids prescribed by clinicians can lead to opioid use disorder, opioid misuse, and other opioid-related harms. A single opioid prescription is not without risk and ...