Opioid prescriptions common after hospital discharge
1. Based on retrospective Medicare beneficiary data, about fifteen percent of patients on general medical or surgical wards who were ...
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Opioids for chronic non-cancer pain linked to increased mortality
1. Long-term opioid therapy for chronic non-cancer pain is associated with an increase in all-cause mortality. 2. Increased mortality was ...
Opioid analgesics not linked to clinical improvement in chronic low back pain
1. In a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials, opioid analgesics for chronic low back pain were associated with small, but ...
ED-initiated buprenorphine/naloxone treatment linked to increased enrollment in addiction treatment
1. When compared to opioid-dependent patients randomized to receive either screening and brief intervention or screening and a referral for ...
Opioid policy changes associated with decreased prescription overdose, increased heroin overdose
1. Amongst a cohort of a large, national health insurance company, after the 2010 discontinuation of propoxyphene and the introduction ...
Long-acting opioid use linked to higher risk of overdose
1. In a cohort of elderly veterans with chronic painful conditions, patients started on long-acting opioids were 2.5 times as ...
Tramadol use linked with increased risk of hypoglycemia hospitalizations
1. When compared to codeine use, tramadol was associated with an increased risk of hospitalization for hypoglycemia in patients with ...
Maintenance opioids in drug users linked with lower rate of hepatitis C infection
1. In young adults, treatment with maintenance opioid agonist therapy (methadone or buprenorphine) was associated with a 69% decrease in ...
Buprenorphine most responsible for pediatric hospitalizations due to unsupervised ingestion
1. Of the over 9,000 annual hospitalizations of children under the age of 6 for unsupervised medication ingestions, opioids and ...
Multiple opioid prescriptions associated with higher hospital admissions
Image: PD 1. A significant number of Medicare beneficiaries received opioid prescriptions from more than one physician. 2. Increased concurrent ...