Nearly 108,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2022, surpassing the previous year’s record total, according to a CDC report. Although the official number of deaths caused by overdoses—107,941—breaks the...
The FDA approved the second over-the-counter nasal spray with the goal of increasing access to products that can rapidly reverse the effects of opioid overdose.
To guide prevention efforts for fatal poisonings in pediatric patients, the authors of a recent study examined characteristics of death from poisoning in young children within the United States.
In a recent study presented at the Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association annual conference, researchers examined the use of opioids in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma while undergoing...
Researchers examined the implementation of a restricted opioid prescribing plan for patients who experienced pain post-surgery in efforts to reduce chronic opioid use.
Researchers find that presurgical cannabis use may increase patients’ postsurgical pain when compared to surgical patients who do not use cannabis. The research was presented at the Anesthesiology 2022...
The researchers examined trends in opioid prescribing in the United States as professional organizations update their pain management guidelines to reduce opioid use.
In a study presented at AAGL Virtual 2020, researchers sought to determine the impact of shared decision making on postsurgical opioid prescribing in women undergoing minimally invasive hysterectomy.
