Then after a while, as I was struggling with strong feelings of depression and anxiety, the doctors gave me a citalopram prescription ... to decrease the primary opioid I was taking.
District Court Judge Cindy Volkmer sentenced Brian Wasson to three and a half years to five years and eight months in prison ...
For years, even as opioid overdose deaths dramatically increased, doctors and other prescribers in the United States needed ...
State and local governments are receiving billions of dollars in opioid settlements to address ... of aggressively marketing and distributing prescription painkillers. States are required to ...
Contrary to what Tom Frieden, then the CDC's director, said in a press release introducing the 2016 opioid guidelines, prescription practices did not create the opioid crisis and are not ...
District Court Judge Cindy Volkmer sentenced former Scottsbluff Police Captain Wasson to 40 to 68 months imprisonment on each ...
The opioid crisis refers to the rapid increase in opioid overuse, misuse, and overdose deaths since the 1990s. It involves both prescription opioids and opioids that people use recreationally.
As Dr. Kilby notes, the algorithm is designed to predict elevations in someone’s lifetime risk of opioid addiction — not whether a new prescription will change that trajectory. For example ...
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody was in West Palm Beach Wednesday with Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and ...
YoungBoy Never Broke Again was arrested this week over a “large scale prescription fraud ring,” police claim in a new filing.
Trends in pediatric prescription-opioid overdoses in U.S. emergency departments from 2008–2020: An epidemiologic study of pediatric opioid overdose ED visits. PLOS ONE , 2024; 19 (4): e0299163 ...
ABC News’ Dr. Jen Ashton discusses how the number of emergency visits among children for prescription opioids ... s fentanyl crisis as fatal synthetic opioid overdoses there have risen 533% ...