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Study Helps Identify Patients Most Likely to Abuse Painkillers After Surgery

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One of the most common reasons to prescribe prescription painkillers is after a surgical procedure. Sometimes these surgeries can be major, and other times they can be less invasive. However, painkillers have become part of most standard recovery protocols. One major problem with this is that sometimes patients do not stop taking their painkillers, even […]

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Addicts Found Using Pets to Obtain Drugs from Veterinarians

Drug Addiction, Intervention Services Blog, Opioids, Prescription Drugs

The opioid crisis is a serious matter in the United States, which has seen considerable coverage in the press recently. The epidemic is being approached from many different angles, including prescription drug monitoring programs for doctors and pharmacists. However, people addicted to drugs are often resourceful in finding other ways to obtain them, and according

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OxyContin Being Introduced to Global Market

Drug Addiction, Intervention Services Blog, Interventions and Treatment, Opioids, Prescription Drugs, Substance Abuse Statistics

The business of selling OxyContin is dying in the US, but the drug maker earned billions of dollars during its heyday. The country is currently in the throes of what has been described as an opioid epidemic that is responsible for 200,000 deaths. Many people believe that OxyContin was one of the drugs responsible for

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Doctors May Be Held Liable for Wrongly Prescribing Powerful Painkillers

Intervention Services Blog, Interventions and Treatment, Opioids, Prescription Drugs

Subsys is powerful version of fentanyl that is designed and approved for cancer patients with acute pain. However, some doctors have begun to prescribe Subsys to patients who do not have cancer. This sort of off-label use for drugs happens frequently, and may be more harmful that either the patients or the doctors initially realize.

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