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Genes Play a Role in Opioid Side Effects

Genes play a significant role in determining which patients will suffer from respiratory depression, nausea, itchiness and other side effects from painkilling opiates, according to a Stanford...

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Dramatic Increase in Chronic Abuse of Painkillers

The abuse of prescription painkillers has increased dramatically over the last decade, particularly among men, according to a new report by a researcher for the Centers for Disease Control. Between...

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Should Children Take Opioid Painkillers?

Two new studies are drawing attention to a sensitive topic in the pain community: Should children be given powerful and potentially addictive opioid analgesics to relieve their pain? According to...

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Opioid Use by Injured California Workers Declining

The use of powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone by injured California workers has dropped to its lowest level since 2007, according to a new study. Researchers say the data suggests that...

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Are Painkiller Sales Falling?

Sales of OxyContin and other popular painkillers in the U.S. have declined in the past year, according to pharmaceutical sales data released by a clinical drug website. But it’s not clear if the drop...

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Nektar Begins Phase II Study of New Opioid

Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ: NKTR) has enrolled the first patient in a Phase II clinical study of a new opioid analgesic that is designed to enter the brain slowly, reducing the potential for the drug...

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Doctors Petition FDA to Limit Painkillers

Saying it was time to “close the loophole” on narcotic painkillers, a coalition of doctors and public health officials is petitioning the Food and Drug Administration to change the prescription...

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Living with Pain: PROP’s Misleading Petition

Last week the Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing, along with a group of doctors and public health officials, sent a petition to the Food and Drug Administration requesting changes in...

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Researcher Says Marijuana is Safer Alternative to Painkillers

Marijuana is an effective treatment for chronic pain and is a safer alternative than opioid analgesics, according to a Canadian researcher at the Centre for Addictions Research  at the University of...

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Living with Pain: The Fed Crackdown on Medical Marijuana

I have been smoking medical marijuana for the past four months. Like hundreds of thousands of others, I turned to medical marijuana for relief from chronic pain. For me the decision was easy, as I had...

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Caught in the Crossfire: PROMPT vs. PROP

When a group of doctors, public health officials and members of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP) submitted a petition to the FDA to restrict the approved uses of opioid medications,...

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Depression and Painkiller Use Increases Risk of Addiction after Surgery

The risk of addiction to opioid painkillers after surgery significantly increases if a patient is depressed or has used pain medications prior to surgery, according to a pilot study at Stanford...

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Living with Pain: Patients Fight Back in Florida

Pain patients in Florida are taking their well-being into their own hands by fighting back against the state and federal governments, which are obstructing and, in some cases, denying opioid treatment...

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Drug Monitoring Database Significantly Reduced Inappropriate Prescriptions

A prescription drug monitoring program in Canada dramatically reduced the number of inappropriate prescriptions for opioid painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs, according to a new study in the Canadian...

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PROP’s Petition: Why Opioid Labeling Changes Are Needed

By Pete Jackson Recently, several columns have appeared in American News Report expressing negative views toward a petition submitted to the FDA by doctors, researchers and public health officials,...

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Nektar Begins Testing of New Opioid Painkiller

Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ: NKTR) has announced positive results from an early study on the effectiveness of a new short-acting opioid drug candidate.  The company said the drug – called NKTR-192 –...

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FDA Panel Backs Tighter Controls on Vicodin

By Pat Anson, Editor An advisory panel for the Food and Drug Administration has recommended tighter controls on Vicodin and other hydrocodone products, the most widely used and abused narcotic...

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7 of 10 Americans on Prescription Drugs

By Richard Lenti Prescription drug use in the U.S. has nearly doubled in the past decade, with nearly seven out of ten Americans being prescribed medications, according to a new study by the Mayo...

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‘Opioid Refugees’ Denied Painkillers

The stories are widespread and persistent: pain patients being denied opioid medications by pharmacies or being left untreated by doctors. We’ve written about it, many times, and readers like Carla...

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Oxycodone and Hydrocodone Most Popular Abused Painkillers

By Pat Anson, Editor Oxycodone and hydrocodone are the “drugs of choice” for abusers of opioid pain medication, according to a new survey of thousands of opioid addicts entering drug treatment programs...

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