Opioid users tend to be alone and incapacitated during an overdose. Purdue University researchers are developing a device that would…
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Q&A: Newly public data maps opioid crisis across US
The release of a massive trove of data from lawsuits over the nation’s opioid crisis provides the most detailed accounting…
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Common antidepressants interact with opioid med to lessen pain relief
Common antidepressants interact with the opioid pain medication tramadol to make it less effective for pain relief, according to a…
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Polysubstance use, social factors associated with opioid overdose deaths
A new study led by Boston Medical Center’s Grayken Center for Addiction shows that opioid-related overdose deaths involving another substance…
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More than 600,000 opioid abusers raising kids in U.S.
(HealthDay)—They might be too young to abuse opioids themselves, but America’s kids are suffering nonetheless because of their drug-dependent parents….
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New study examines geographic differences in fatal pediatric opioid poisonings
A new study shines light on pediatric opioid deaths by U.S. region, the first time a study of this nature…
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Study: Opioid dose variability may be a risk factor for opioid overdose
Patients prescribed opioid pain medications whose doses varied over time were 3 times more likely to experience an overdose than…
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U.S. opioid addiction crisis is top health story of 2018
(HealthDay)—The scourge of opioid addiction and related deaths cut through American society again in 2018, capturing headlines and making it…
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Concerns raised as opioid prescriptions rise across UK
Researchers recommend greater action to promote best practice as a new study reveals a rise in prescriptions of opioids for…
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Babies born in withdrawal new complication in opioid cases
The expansive court case seeking to hold drugmakers responsible for the nation’s opioid crisis has a new complication: How does…
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