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Key learnings from early adopters of opioid-free ERAS protocols
Post-surgery recovery programs with opioid-sparing and opioid-free protocols are increasingly being leveraged to prevent the risk of opioid addiction and improve pain management for patients.
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LA Times: Purdue Pharma sought to steer web traffic away from opioid news
Internal documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times reveal Purdue Pharma officials considered manipulating keyword searches to direct web traffic away from a series of articles on the opioid crisis to a site called PurduePharmaFacts.com.
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Florida, Military Health System to share PDMP data
Florida's prescription drug monitoring program is now sharing data with the Military Health System's PDMP in a move that will help expand care providers' access to military members' medication histories.
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The challenges of lowering opioid prescriptions
A new study on guidelines aimed at lowering opioid prescriptions to prevent addiction shows the potential success — and challenges — of changing prescribing habits, according to NPR.
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More than half of privately insured kids getting tonsils removed receive opioids
Children with private insurance undergoing tonsillectomies often receive opioids, with an average prescription of six to 10 days, according to a study published in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.
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Americans increasingly take opioids for migraines, study finds
Nineteen percent of Americans are using opioids to specifically to treat migraine headaches, up from 16 percent in 2009, according to new research.
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State AGs to Congress: Eliminate these 3 barriers to opioid treatment
The National Association of Attorneys General on Aug. 5 sent a letter to members of Congress, urging them to remove federal treatment barriers for opioid use disorder, according to AHA News.
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Opioid prescriptions outweigh naloxone 69 to 1, CDC says
While U.S. pharmacies are dispensing more naloxone prescriptions than ever before, the amount of opioid prescriptions dispensed still outpaces those for the lifesaving opioid overdose antidote, according to a CDC report cited by STAT.
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Drug distributors propose $10B settlement to end state opioid lawsuits
McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen have proposed paying $10 billion to settle state lawsuits that accuse the companies of helping to fuel the opioid epidemic, according to Bloomberg.
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1 million Americans have recovered from opioid use disorder, study estimates
An estimated 1.2 million Americans have achieved long-term recovery from opioid use disorder, according to an study published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine.
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How Hospital for Special Surgery prescribed 500K fewer opioid pills in 18 months
In 2017, New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery implemented a Controlled Substances Task Force to limit the risk of opioid misuse among the roughly 32,000 patients who undergo orthopedic surgeries at the hospital annually.
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CDC: Drug overdose death rate nearly quadrupled in past 2 decades
The overall drug overdose death rate in urban and rural U.S. counties nearly quadrupled from 1999 to 2017, according to new CDC data reported by STAT.
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Hospitals' blind spots are fueling the opioid crisis — Here are specific ways leaders can address them
A major hole in the healthcare system has many hospitals and health systems fueling the nation's opioid epidemic — unintentionally or not.
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5 largest opioid manufacturers from 2006-12
SpecGx, a subsidiary of Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, was the top opioid manufacturer between 2006 and 2012, accounting for 37.7 percent of the pills on the U.S. market, according to Drug Enforcement Administration data published by The Washington Post.
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Boston stocks all city buildings with opioid overdose reversal drug
Boston is outfitting all the buildings owned by the city with opioid overdose emergency kits by the end of the year, according to The Boston Globe.
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McKinsey under fire for consulting on opioid sales
Global consulting firm McKinsey & Co. is facing criticism for its role in opioid marketing for Johnson & Johnson and Purdue Pharmaceuticals, The New York Times reports.
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Utah university receives $175K for opioid prevention, telemedicine program
The USDA awarded $175,000 to Utah State University in Logan for opioid prevention, treatment and recovery services through telemedicine, St. George News reports.
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2% of US women continue using opioids after childbirth, study finds
About 2 percent of women prescribed opioid painkillers around the time of childbirth show signs of persistent opioid use following initial prescription, according to a study published July 26 in JAMA Network Open and reported by STAT.
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US opioid-prescribing rates can be nearly 30% higher than in other countries
Opioid-prescribing during hospital stays and at discharge may be higher in the United States than in other countries, according to a study published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.
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NIH to award $155M in grants to improve opioid abuse treatment
The National Institutes of Health plans to form a network, supported by $155 million in grants, to drive research on addiction treatment for opioid use disorder in criminal justice settings.
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