Use of Fentanyl Patches in Nursing Homes Persists After FDA Warning

Pain Medicine News-10 hours ago

Despite FDA warnings regarding the risk for adverse effects from administering long-acting opioids to patients who had not developed opioid tolerance throug

Drugmakers Are Racing to Find Alternatives to Opioids

Bloomberg-3 hours ago

In the wake of mounting overdoses and deaths from the opioid-addiction crisis sweeping across the U.S., drugmakers are racing to come up with safer ...

US attorney: Locals must lead fight against opioid epidemic

Bloomington Pantagraph-13 hours ago

SPRINGFIELD — The fight to control an opioid epidemic that claimed almost 2,000 lives in Illinois last year will be fought at the community level with a battle ...

Community coming together to combat opioid abuse
WAND-16 hours ago

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Health Care, Medicaid Cuts And The Opioid Crisis

WPSU-19 hours ago

With an overdose epidemic worsening, nearly one-third of Medicare beneficiaries received at least one prescription for commonly abused opioids such as ...

Opioid Crisis About Much More Than Opioids
PR Newswire (press release)-Jun 27, 2017

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White House opioid crisis commission misses due date for ...

STAT-Jun 27, 2017

ASHINGTON — President Trump's commission on the opioid crisis has missed its first deadline. The newly created panel met for the first time on June 16, just 11 ...