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...
To better understand mortality trends within the United States, researchers examined the rate of death in people who died of alcohol-related liver disease.
The researchers assessed how the legalization of nonmedical cannabis affected the use of alcohol, cigarettes, and pain medication use in Washington state.
In a recent study, researchers used data from insurance claims to examine trends in post-surgery opioid prescribing and the likelihood of prolonged use with various opioids.
Use of tobacco and the co-prescription of sedative hypnotics have been shown to be risk factors for the misuse of prescribed opioids, but the association between these drugs has not yet been clarified. ...
The US Department of Health and Human Services has released a new set of recommendations for the coprescription of naloxone in patients at high-risk for opioid overdose.
In a new study, researchers investigated whether weekly and monthly subcutaneous buprenorphine depot formulations were noninferior to a daily sublingual combination of buprenorphine and naloxone for the...
The FDA’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee recently reviewed and voted on whether to recommend lofexidine, a non-opioid drug, for the management of opioid withdrawal.
