Maine is one of three states to have passed e-prescribing law, which goes into effect July 1. Eight more states have introduced legislation for electronic prescribing of controlled substances.
Patients with private insurance who are diagnosed with opioid dependency or abuse may get different medical services depending on where they live, a white paper
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The FDA's move to request Endo Pharmaceuticals to remove its opioid drug Opana ER (oxymorphone hydrochloride) from the market is a first for the regulator.
What if local anesthesia didn't wear off after surgery? Or at least not for three or four days. That's a concept San Diego's Heron Therapeutics is moving into Phase 3 trials this year, with its long-acting and potentially opioid-sparing formulation.
Now is not the time for celebration, but at least the crusade against opioid abuse registered a win in Trump's 2018 budget proposal.
In February of this year, the FDA approved the Narcan nasal spray to revive patients that had overdosed on opioid drugs. But the real story of 2016 was how widely that antidote was needed. The epidemic reached all corners of America in deadly new synthetic forms, raising unprecedented awareness about the dangers of opioid use -- without yet bringing the death toll down.
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In one of the first looks at privately insured patients with opioid problems, researchers paint a grim picture: Medical services for people with opioid dependence diagnoses skyrocketed more than 3,000 percent between 2007 and 2014.
A death certificate needs to say more than something vague like “opioid intoxication” to help both law enforcement and public health officials curb the distribution — and hopefully abuse — of opioids.
The new law will require prescribers and pharmacists to check the state's prescription monitoring program before prescribing or dispensing a controlled drug. It also limits the strength and duration of scripts for opioids.
Certain opioids could be created using yeast instead of poppies. This raises concerns with the DEA and FBI, but so far it looks like it will be a while before this is even a real option in the lab for mass production.
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The abuse-deterrent labeling approval for prescription painkillers means they are formulated to make it tougher for patients to abuse.
These numbers are pretty shocking: New findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have shown that almost a third of women, ages 15 to 55, have filled a prescription for an opioid each year from 2008 to 2012 – most commonly oxycodone, hydrocodone and codeine. The C.D.C. analyzed health insurance claims from both […]