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Factors Identified for Integrative Health and Medicine Use in Chronic Pain
MONDAY, Feb. 12, 2024 – Factors associated with engagement in integrative health and medicine (IHM) and nonpharmacologic modalities versus opioids have been identified for adults with chronic pain,...
Cutting U.S. Homelessness by 25% Could Prevent 2,000 Opioid Deaths Each Year
THURSDAY, Feb. 8, 2024 – Reducing homelessness by 25% could save nearly 2,000 lives lost each year to opioid overdoses, a new study estimates. It also could save 850 lives from alcohol poisoning and...
What Works Best to Help Pregnant Women Ease Off Opioids?
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 31, 2024 – There's one treatment for pregnant women addicted to opioids that’s safer for their unborn child, a new study reports. Buprenorphine is associated with a slightly lower r...
Congenital Malformation Risk Lower With Buprenorphine Versus Methadone
THURSDAY, Jan. 25, 2024 – The risk for congenital malformations is lower in association with buprenorphine versus methadone for opioid use disorder in pregnancy, according to a study published...
Study IDs Risks to Offspring Associated With Prenatal Opioid Exposure
FRIDAY, Jan. 19, 2024 – Prenatal opioid exposure (POE) is associated with an increased risk for infection, eczema and dermatitis, and asthma in offspring, but it is not linked to allergies or...
Mom's Opioid Use in Pregnancy Raises Child's Asthma, Eczema Risk
THURSDAY, Jan. 18, 2024 – Fetal exposure to opioids may change a baby's immune system, triggering a rise in risks for eczema and asthma through early childhood, new research shows. Children born to...
Recent Reduction Seen in Opioid Prescribing by Surgeons
THURSDAY, Jan. 18, 2024 – Opioid prescribing by surgeons decreased between 2013 and 2017, according to a study published online Jan. 16 in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. Apostolos ...
Marijuana Has No Role in Taking Up or Quitting Opioids: Study
TUESDAY, Jan. 16, 2024 – There’s no link at all between weed use and a person’s use of illicit opioids, one way or the other, a new review concludes. Cannabis isn’t a gateway drug that can spark a pe...
Cannabis Does Not Impact Nonmedical Opioid Use in Opioid Use Disorder
TUESDAY, Jan. 16, 2024 – For patients receiving pharmacotherapies for opioid use disorder (OUD), cannabis use is not associated with nonmedical opioid use, according to a systematic review and...
Latest Data Show 22 U.S. Teens Die of Overdoses Each Week
TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 – An average of 22 U.S. teens die each week from drug overdoses, a death toll driven by the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl, a new study reports. Researchers also have...
Addiction Treatment for Teens in Crisis Is Often Hard to Find
TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 – A 'secret shopper' study finds that for many American families, accessing inpatient treatment for a teen battling addiction can be next to impossible. “If you are a family in ...
Access to Residential Addiction Treatment Centers for Teens Limited
TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 – For adolescents, access to U.S. residential addiction treatment centers is limited and costly, according to a study published in the January issue of Health Affairs. Caroline...
Personalized Protocol Cuts Opioid Prescribing After C-Section
TUESDAY, Jan. 2, 2024 – A personalized protocol for opioid prescriptions after cesarean delivery reduces the median morphine milligram equivalents prescribed at discharge, according to a study...
2016 to 2020 Saw Rise in Against-Medical-Advice Discharges for Opioid Admissions
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 3, 2024 – Before-medically-advised (BMA) discharges increased to one in six patients from 2016 to 2020 for admissions with opioid use disorder (OUD) and an injection-related...
FDA Approves DNA Cheek Swab Test to ID Patients at High Risk for Opioid Addiction
THURSDAY, Dec. 21, 2023 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a first-of-its-kind test – the AvertD test – that uses DNA swabbed from a patient's cheek to determine if they have a...
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