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91% who overdose on opioids continue to receive opioid prescriptions
Key clinical point: Almost all patients treated at EDs for nonfatal opioid overdose continue to receive opioid prescriptions. Major finding: 2,597...
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2014 sets U.S. record for drug overdose deaths
Key clinical point: Efforts to encourage safer prescribing of opioid pain relievers should be strengthened. Major finding: In 2014, opioids were...
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Review: Opioid prescriptions are the work of many physicians
Contrary to reports that a relative few physicians prescribe most opioids, many primary care providers and specialists prescribe such painkillers...
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FDA advisory committees support changing codeine contraindications for children
The FDA’s Pulmonary-Allergy Drugs and Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committees voted strongly in favor of amending codeine’s current...
Conference Coverage
ASA: Pediatric clinicians over-dispensing opioids, study finds
Pediatric clinicians are dispensing more medicine than needed to treat pain and may be contributing to the epidemic of nonmedical use of...
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FDA approves first naloxone nasal spray for opioid overdose
The Food and Drug Administration has approved Narcan, a naloxone nasal spray used to stop or reverse the effects of opioid overuse.
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Off-label prescriptions frequently cause adverse events
Off-label prescribing of drugs is common and very likely to cause adverse events, particularly when no strong scientific evidence supports the off...
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Opioid abuse more prevalent in females with major depression
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Louisiana goes two for one on controlled substance prescriptions
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California governor signs physician-assisted suicide bill into law
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a controversial measure that allows physicians to help patients legally end their lives.