Study: Opioids could kill nearly 500K Americans in the next decade

The Hill-16 hours ago

Opioid abuse is on track to kill nearly half a million Americans over the next decade, STAT News reported Tuesday. STAT asked 10 leading public health experts ...

STAT projection: Opioid overdoses could kill more than 650k ...
Becker's Hospital Review-21 hours ago

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Senate health bill could prove devastating for Michigan's battle with ...

Detroit Metro Times-39 minutes ago

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 in 4 patients with long-term prescriptions for opioid painkillers will develop an addiction to the .

Opioid-related hospitalizations soar in Pennsylvania

Philly.com-5 hours ago

Hospital admissions for heroin overdoses have more than quadrupled since 2010 in Pennsylvania, with the upward trend getting even steeper in the past year, ...

In Pennsylvania, hospital stays for prescription opioid overdoses ...
The Intelligencer-5 hours ago

Overdose-related hospital admissions soar as opioid epidemic ...
Tribune-Review-10 hours ago

51 percent of opioid prescriptions go to people with depression and ...

PBS NewsHour-22 hours ago

OxyContin tablets, morphine-like painkillers, are widely abused as a recreational drug. People with mood disorders are at increased risk of abusing opioids, and ...

Mental Health Diagnoses, Opioid Use Linked in New Study
GoodTherapy.org (blog)-21 hours ago

More than half of all opioid prescriptions go to people with mental ...
Medical Xpress-Jun 27, 2017

Study finds more than 50% of opioid prescriptions are distributed for ...
News-Medical.net-Jun 27, 2017

More Than Half Of Opioids Prescribed to People With Mood Disorders
TheFix.com-15 hours ago

More Than Half Of Opioid Prescriptions Go To People With Mental ...
In-Depth-HuffPost-18 hours ago

Your Pharmacist Probably Knows More About Your Health Than ...

Reader's Digest-18 hours ago

Alexandr III/ShutterstockFirst, your pharmacist knows all kinds of secrets that could help you, so perhaps it's time to start tapping into this under-utilized health ...

Pharmacists to be barred from automatically registering as ...

The Pharmaceutical Journal-Jun 27, 2017

Pharmacists will no longer be able to automatically register as pharmacy technicians, as part of a revamp of the standards for the initial education and training 

46 Arrested As 'Full Service Pharmacy' Drug Ring Busted In Chester ...

Patch.com-22 hours ago

46 have been arrested in a massive drug bust; dealers sold MDMA, crack cocaine, meth, Vicodin, and more across Chester County.

Shrouded in secrecy: the Pharmacy Guild resists deeper scrutiny

The Guardian-11 hours ago

'The nation's 5,500 pharmacies [...] will receive more than $18.9 billion from the taxpayer over the five years of the current community pharmacy agreement.

Hospira recall drives 2 other drug companies to pull injectables from ...

Becker's Hospital Review-16 hours ago

PharMedium's injectables are compounded using some Hospira products. ... received reports of adverse events associated with the recalled injectable drugs.

Internet flooded with unfounded claims about 'natural' bioidentical .hormone therapy that Suzanne Somers made famous: study Doctors, pharmacists and naturopaths claim 'bioidentical' hormones are safer than conventional hormone-replacement treatment, but this has no basis in science, experts say

Internet flooded with unfounded claims about 'natural' bioidentical ...

National Post-17 hours ago

Those are drugs that plummeted in popularity after a landmark study ... plants such as soybeans and custom-compounded by pharmacists for individual patients ...