For patients with psychiatric conditions from addiction to mood disorders such as depression, disrupted sleep can often ...
The percentage of patients receiving medication for opioid use disorder in federally qualified health centers increased from 2017 to 2023.
According to published results, patients with a history of preoperative opioid use had inferior outcomes for pain and ...
When prescribing opioids for acute pain, physicians should be attentive to a patient’s individual risk factors, according to ...
After decades of research, Vertex Pharmaceuticals now has an approved pain medication. Can one of the world’s most powerful ...
Opioid prescriptions in the emergency department (ED) were associated with small increases in later opioid prescriptions and ...
Emergency department opioid prescriptions are associated with small increases in hospital admission and subsequent opioid ...
After nearly a decade of annual upticks in overdose deaths, the city saw a drop in 2023, the latest data available. Something ...
LICADD has been addressing substance use for nearly 70 years, but that fight is not stopping, nor is it's intensity lessening ...
Despite an increase in the use of medication for opioid use disorder in older adults from 2017 to 2022, disparities persist; ...
New research links emergency department opioid prescriptions to small increases in future opioid use and hospitalisations ...