Patients hospitalized with acute coronary syndrome or acute decompensated heart failure who are prescribed opioid medication at discharge may be less likely to resort to planned healthcare use.
Patients with low back pain or osteoarthritis who reported adverse drug reactions to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have significantly higher odds of receiving prescriptions for opioids and developing opioid use disorder.
Since the early 2000s, the United States has had the highest drug overdose death rates among its peer countries.
HealthDay News — Certain opioids are less effective for postoperative pain in patients taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants, according to a study published online Feb. 6 in PLOS ONE. Arjun Parthipan, from Stanford University in California, and colleagues used a machine learning approach to identify patients prescribed a combination of SSRIs and prodrug opioids postoperatively to…
Conventional approaches to treatment of opioid-induced constipation include the use of treatment modalities that address non-opioid-related constipation as well as new medications that target the OIC mechanism of action.
Prescribers receiving opioid-specific payments prescribed 8784 more opioid daily doses per year.
The American Heart Association launched in December 2018 a 30 minute-long online course titled “Opioid Education for Healthcare Providers.”
Even the use of as few as 2 concomitant drugs can introduce the risk for drug interactions and subsequent adverse effects.
Buprenorphine-naloxone may be more cost-effective than extended-release naltrexone as first-line treatment for opioid use disorder.
As the government shutdown drags in to its second month, physicians who treat opioid use disorders are being backed against a wall.
