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May 16, 2024
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May 8, 2024 Starting people with opioid use disorder on extended-release, injectable naltrexone (XR-naltrexone) within five to seven days of seeking treatment is more effective than the standard treatment method ...
Apr. 18, 2024 Researchers have uncovered a mechanism in the brain that allows cocaine and morphine to take over natural reward processing ...
Jan. 31, 2024 A new approach to treating neuropathic pain is making a key step forward. Neuropathic pain is among the most difficult types of pain to alleviate and current treatments are often ineffective. Researchers have identified a potential non-opioid ...
Dec. 7, 2023 Post-surgery pain relief has shifted away from opioid-containing medications over the past seven years, but the downward trend has slowed since 2020, a new study shows. Overall, the rate of surgery-related opioid prescriptions dropped by 36% from ...
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Apr. 12, 2024 Drugs that target opioid receptors sometimes have severe side effects. Thousands of people around the world die every day from overdoses involving opioids such as fentanyl. Researchers have taken a ...
Nov. 3, 2023 A newly developed prediction model may be able to calculate the risk of opioid relapse among individuals in the early stages of medication treatment -- as early as three weeks into ...
Sep. 20, 2023 New research has identified an alternative signaling pathway in the brain of mice that relieves pain, even in animals that have developed tolerance ...
Sep. 19, 2023 It is often hard to understand the source of pain in babies and children, and if they experience it often or for a long time, it can do severe ...
Aug. 7, 2023 An antibody therapy appears to have advantages over existing opioid-overdose ...
July 24, 2023 Neuropathic pain is a debilitating condition estimated to affect as much as 10% of the global population. It results from a damaged or malfunctioning nervous system, stemming from diseases like ...
June 28, 2023 Opioid pain-relieving medicines are not more effective than a placebo in relieving acute back and neck pain and may even cause harm, according to a recent ...
New Test Quickly Identifies Patients Whose Postoperative Pain Can Be Effectively Treated by Hypnosis
Mar. 14, 2023 Hypnosis is an effective treatment for pain for many individuals but determining which patients will benefit most can be challenging. Hypnotizability ...
Jan. 12, 2023 New work provides a comprehensive structural framework that should help drug developers rationally design safer drugs to relieve severe ...
Nov. 30, 2022 A collaboration of scientists found a novel way to render benign the worst side effects of ...
Earlier Headlines
Apr. 17, 2024 The US saw a 22% decline in rates of prescription-opioid overdose related emergency department (ED) visits in children 17 and younger between 2008 and 2019, but an uptick in the early part of the ...
Mar. 20, 2024 In a new study, researchers found that a carefully worded, short questionnaire successfully identified people who were most likely to develop chronic pain. These patients were then steered to a more ...
Nov. 29, 2023 A 20-year study examined the long term relationship between cannabis and illicit opioid use. Overall results were inconsistent and showed no strong link. The study showed that clinicians and ...
Mar. 28, 2023 Naloxone -- a fast-acting opioid antidote -- has saved lives, but it's less effective against powerful synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl. In an interesting twist, researchers are now ...
Dec. 1, 2022 Opioid-related overdose is now a leading cause of accidental death in the United States and Canada. A study suggests discontinuing prescribed opioids was associated with increased overdose ...
Nov. 28, 2022 While some feared that New Yorkers would re-fill prescriptions to stockpile opioid medications in the early weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown, New York State opioid prescriptions declined in the period ...
Nov. 23, 2022 Sometimes healthcare professionals treat patients with opioids such as morphine to relieve symptoms, but there has been a lack of evidence as to whether this helps with severe chronic breathlessness. ...
Nov. 14, 2022 A breakthrough discovery could have major implications for the nation's opioid epidemic by becoming a relapse prevention vaccine for people trying to quit using ...
Oct. 26, 2022 People with opioid-use disorder who enter treatment are at risk for relapse, overdose or death if they engage in less than two outpatient visits in their first month of care, according to a new ...
Oct. 26, 2022 New findings unexpectedly show that heroin, not its metabolites, is the best therapeutic ...
Oct. 19, 2022 New substances that activate adrenalin receptors instead of opioid receptors have a similar pain relieving effect to opiates, but without the negative aspects such as respiratory depression and ...
Oct. 12, 2022 Veterans receiving buprenorphine were more likely to stay on it if they had virtual visits, but phone-based virtual care was especially prominent among those who are Black or lack stable housing, ...
Oct. 10, 2022 Some smart home technology could help curb opioid overdose. A pilot study showed that a set of noninvasive home sensors could provide accurate information about overnight restlessness and sleep ...
Oct. 7, 2022 Researchers have observed that the length of daylight hours impacts opioid receptor levels in brown fat. When daylight hours shorten, the receptor activity levels elevate. A similar phenomenon also ...
Oct. 6, 2022 Results of a new study suggest the prefrontal cortex-habenula circuit is potentially amenable for targeted interventions and ...
Oct. 3, 2022 Using data from the Pennsylvania Overdose Information Network from the years 2018-20 and American Community Survey data from 2015-19, geography researchers looked at the prevalence of overdoses in ...
Sep. 29, 2022 According to a new study, third-trimester fetuses with in utero opioid exposure exhibited multiple smaller 2D biometric measurements of the brain, as well as altered fetal physiology, on ...
Sep. 28, 2022 In new study, opioid use seen to reduce or stop altogether, following prescription of medical ...
Sep. 6, 2022 Researchers test the efficacy of a soft, bioresorbable, implantable device to block pain signals from sciatic nerves of rat ...
Aug. 31, 2022 The expansion of telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with individuals staying in treatment longer and reducing their risk of medically treated overdose, according to a new ...
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- Mouse Study Links Changes in Microbiome to Prenatal Opioid Exposure
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- Opioid Prescriptions for Pediatric Patients Following Surgical Procedures Have Dropped Significantly
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- Half of Pediatric Opioid Prescriptions Are 'high Risk'
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