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Anticonvulsant may increase mortality risk when coprescribed ...
... exposure to pregabalin in the preceding 120 days and significantly increased odds of opioid-related death versus exposure to opioids alone, a ...
ACP offers new Practice Advisor module, webinars on use of ...
... helps assess a practice's ability to successfully develop a treatment plan for chronic pain and track and monitor use of opioids if prescribed. ...
10% of those who use opioids account for the vast majority of ...
... 10% of those who use opioids account for the vast majority of use. ... The top 10% of those who used opioids were older (average age, 47 vs. ...
Many patients do not use or discard prescription opioids after ...
More needs to be done to reduce the oversupply of opioids after surgery because prescriptions are often not fully used, and easily diverted for ...
Guidance limited for treating acute pain | ACP Internist
... “But you have to wonder that maybe some of it was that we were prescribing [opioids], and we were the ones that got the patient hooked.”. ...
Breaking barriers to buprenorphine | ACP Internist
... the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914 criminalized the use of narcotics, effectively prohibiting physicians from prescribing opioids to treat people ...
CDC issues recommendations for prescribing opioids for ...
Among 12 recommendations was the consideration that clinicians should consider opioids only if expected benefits for both pain and function ...
Coprescription of naloxone for acute use in case of overdose ...
... Coprescription of naloxone for acute use in case of overdose may benefit primary care patients taking opioids for chronic pain. ...
Prescribe opioids, but with caution | ACP Internist
Use of opioids for chronic pain quadrupled in a 10-year span, despite scant evidence that they are effective for noncancer pain and ample evidence ...
CDC proposes 12 draft recommendations for prescribing ...
... CDC proposes 12 draft recommendations for prescribing opioids. The agency is accepting public comment until Jan. 13. ...