Researchers see promise for safer opioid pain reliever
Researchers at the University of Michigan have engineered a new compound that animal tests suggest could offer the pain-relieving properties […]
When Surgeon General Jerome Adams issued an advisory calling for more people to carry naloxone—not just people at overdose risk, […] (HealthDay)—A first opioid lawsuit is targeting pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), according to a report published in Managed Healthcare Executive. Noting […] A new technology developed by Stony Brook University researchers affiliated with the Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery (ICB […] Opioids are not among the most effective—or longest lasting—options available for relief from acute dental pain, a new examination of […] Improving job prospects for people in economically depressed parts of the United States is unlikely to help curb the opioid […] The recent decision of a Saskatchewan judge to reject the proposed settlement between the provinces and Purdue Pharma, the maker […] (HealthDay)—The youngest victims of America’s addiction crisis are not the teenagers tempted by tobacco, pot and pills. Rather, they are […] The opioid epidemic ravaging the United States, and New Hampshire in particular, is born from subscription painkillers. How did it […] (HealthDay)—State implementation of medical marijuana laws is associated with a reduction in the rate of opioid prescribing, according to a […]Medications
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