Grants to Combat Opioid Crisis Offered by Trump Administration
HealthDay News — The Trump Administration will be handling opioid abuse prevention and treatment programs, which were promised nearly half a billion dollars by the Obama administration. The...
View ArticlePossible Underestimation of Opioid-Related Mortality Rates in America
HealthDay News — According to a report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presented at the Epidemic Intelligence Service conference in Atlanta, the prescription drug abuse epidemic...
View ArticleUpdated AMA Recommendations for Doctors on Proper Opioid Storage and Disposal
HealthDay News — According to a new recommendation from the American Medical Association (AMA) Task Force to Reduce Opioid Abuse, physicians should take three essential steps to reduce the amount of...
View ArticleReferencing Prior Patient Drug History Reduces Opioid Abuse Rates
HealthDay News — According to a study to be published in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, precription databases can help combat drug abuse when doctors are required by law to check them...
View ArticleMaryland Implements Strategies to Curb Opioid Overdose and Death Rates
HealthDay News — According to a report published by the American Medical Association (AMA), strategies are being implemented to reduce opioid overdoses and deaths in Maryland. A series of special...
View ArticleHospitalists Must Lead Change in Opioid Treatment
HealthDay News — According to an article published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, hospitalists have an important role to play in mitigating opioid use disorder (OUD). Noting that the number of...
View ArticlePhysicians Are Still Prescribing Too Many Opioids in the US
HealthDay News — More than 1 out of 3 average Americans used a prescription opioid in 2015, despite growing concerns these medicines are promoting widespread addiction and overdose deaths, according to...
View ArticleClinicians May be Overprescribing Gabapentinoids for Pain
HealthDay News — Clinicians may be overprescribing gabapentinoids, in part as a response to the opioid epidemic, according to a perspective piece published in the New England Journal of Medicine....
View ArticleUSPSTF Recommends Screening Adults for Illicit Drug Use
HealthDay News — The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends screening for illicit drug use in adults, but the evidence is inadequate to ascertain the balance of benefits and harms of...
View ArticleAdrenergic, Not Opioid Pathways, May Mediate Rapid Death From Fentanyl
Fentanyl and fentanyl analogues (F/FAs) may cause rapid death through airway compromise and severe muscle rigidity, effects mediated by central noradrenergic pathways on which μ-opioid receptor...
View ArticleOutcomes of Feasibilty Study on DAAs in Injection Drug Users
Intravenous drug users (IVDUs) with hepatitis C (HCV) infections were successfully recruited for a study examining the feasibility of direct-acting antiviral (DAA) medications, with good results in...
View ArticlePatient Refusal of Observation Following Naloxone Resuscitation: An Ethical,...
Clinical responses to patient refusal of observation following naloxone resuscitation vary widely by provider, contributing to an unmet need for clinical guidelines and education on the topic,...
View ArticleCardiometabolic Disease Risk Factors Among Drug Users
Rates of drug use have been found to be dependent on gender and are associated with risk factors for cardiometabolic disease. These study findings were presented during the Psych Congress 2020 Virtual...
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