Opioid in a sentence

The lawsuit also claims that the free supply of prescription hydromorphone has caused an increase in the rates of opioid prescriptions, opioid hospitalizations and opioid related overdoses and deaths in British Columbia.

FDA approves first non-opioid withdrawal treatmentMay 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it's approved for the first time a non-opioid drug for treatment of opioid withdrawal.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Narcan is an opioid antagonist that attaches itself to opioid receptors and reverses the effects of opioids.

The opioid crisis is a rising concern as the number of deaths from overdose — in particular opioid overdose — reaches new heights every year.

Victims of opioid addiction – both addicts and their families – began to file lawsuits against opioid companies in the 2000s, Lytton said, as did states and local health departments.

In response to this Opioid Epidemic among young people, The Knock Out Opioid Abuse Program was established to educate High School Student-Athletes about the dangers of drug abuse.

OUD can involve misuse of prescribed opioid medications, use of diverted opioid medications, or illicitly obtained heroin.

The new study has found that opioid use disorder patients taking a GLP-1 drug like Ozempic had a 40% lower rate of opioid overdose than those without a prescription.

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Forty years ago, the rate of opioid-related deaths was higher among black people; today, the opioid-related death rate among white people is twice that of black people.

In England and Wales, just over 2,200 people died of opioid abuse in 2018; in the United States, with just over five times the population, were attributed to opioid abuse the same year.

Johnson & Johnson also developed its own opioid pill, which it no longer produces, but said it constituted only a sliver of the national opioid market.

NJ School Athletes To Watch Opioid VideoHigh school athletes are being required to watch an opioid video with help of professional athletes in New Jersey.

Opioid painkillers prescribed following a surgery unwittingly became a gateway for some people caught up in the nation's opioid epidemic.

She went to Maryland to address the Baltimore Youth Summit on Opioid Awareness, appearing on behalf of her "Be Best" youth campaign, which includes a focus on the U.S. epidemic of opioid misuse.

Since 2001, it is estimated that the opioid epidemic has imposed more than $216 billion in health costs, with more to come, as people continue to live with addiction and the lingering health effects of opioid abuse.

The statistics are staggering — more than 2 million Americans are battling opioid addiction, and Kentucky is currently ranked fifth in the United States for opioid overdose deaths.

The White House, which is prioritizing the fight against opioid abuse, invited Ashley Evans, a woman celebrating about one year in recovery after said to have struggled with opioid and substance abuse most of her life.

Trump has also personally criticized Chinese President Xi Jinping for failing to do more to stem sales of the synthetic opioid fentanyl amid an opioid overdosing crisis in the United States.

Western Canada continues to be the most affected by the opioid crisis, but Ontario has also seen a rise in opioid-related deaths, according to the data.