Big Drop Seen in Kids Getting Opioids After Surgery
By Denise Mann HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, April 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Efforts to cut back on risky opioid use for ...
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Medical Pot May Help You Avoid Opioids for Back Pain, Arthritis
TUESDAY, March 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Medical marijuana could be a viable alternative to opioid painkillers for people dealing ...
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Estimated 2.6 million Americans prescribed opioids also on various other sedatives
Credit: CC0 Public Domain As many as 2.6 million Americans—equivalent to 1 percent of all US adults —prescribed opioids are ...
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Officials question San Francisco’s emergency over opioids
By Janie Har | Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — The Board of Supervisors in San Francisco were meeting Thursday to ...
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Opioids Might Not Be Needed After Knee Surgery
By Alan Mozes HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, Nov 23, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Addictive opioid painkillers aren't the only option for patients ...
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CBT intervention with yoga and education components improved pain management for patients on long-term opioids
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A pragmatic randomized controlled trial comparing pain-related outcomes for patients with chronic pain receiving long-term opioid ...
Read moreMore than one in five opioid-naïve patients still use opioids three months after surgery
Credit: CC0 Public Domain New research suggests more than one in five "opioid-naïve" patients continue to use the pain medication ...
Read moreOpioids: 500,000 Britons are addicted but you can still buy them over the counter at Boots
Doctors are still dishing out millions of NHS prescriptions for powerful opioid painkillers – five years after stark warnings that ...
Read more‘A cartel shouldn’t get away with this.’ Anger at opioid settlements that exclude admission of wrongdoing | Opioids crisis
There is growing anger among families bereaved by the US opioid epidemic at pharmaceutical companies “buying their way out of ...
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J&J to stop selling opioids in US, reaches $230 mn settlement with New York
The opioids crisis is believed to have claimed more than 500,000 lives since 1999. Johnson & Johnson, one of the ...
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