The researchers evaluated the various impacts of the concurrent COVID-19 and opioid epidemics, taking into consideration the severely restricted access to chronic pain management.
Patients did not use about 60 percent of prescribed opioid tablets following common orthopedic or urologic procedures.
The incidence of infective endocarditis and resultant neurovascular complications has increased during the opioid epidemic.
Access to primary care is limited for patients taking opioids for chronic pain, particularly for patients with histories suggestive of aberrant use of opioids.
Opioid equianalgesic dosing chart used for interchanging between drug, route of administration, or both.
Recommendations from the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) for the medical management of opioid-induced constipation (OIC).
Investigators are seeking to determine the feasibility of percutaneous nerve stimulation to reduce postoperative opioid consumption.
This study addresses the question of whether prescription opioid medications has a potentially causal role in the risk for depression and anxiety disorder.
Adolescent sleep deficiency as an increased future risk for prescription opioid misuse was examined in a large nationally, representative database designed to track health behaviors and outcomes from adolescence to early adulthood.
Purdue Pharma, maker of the opioid painkiller OxyContin linked to the opioid epidemic, will plead guilty to three federal crimes.
