April 5, 2012 — Opioid rotation — switching from one opioid drug or route of administration to another to improve the outcome — is largely to blame for the growing number of unintentional deaths ...

The FDA is conducting a workshop to discuss the science (lack thereof, really) of Morphine Milligram Equivalents as it applies to the atrocious CDC 2016 Opioid Prescribing Guidelines. Public comments ...

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In a letter to the FDA, the American Society of Anesthesiologists has addressed public health concerns associated with the use of equianalgesic opioid conversion tables and has recommended a staged ...

1:50 The overdose crisis has worsened, have politicians noticed? A wide variety of strategies must be implemented across Ontario to tackle the opioid crisis that has worsened significantly during the ...

The Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 2006;40(7):1327-1335. The classification of opioid analgesics may be based on 3 different schemes: (1) analog class (phenanthrene, phenylpiperidine, diphenylheptane), (2 ...

(MENAFN- PR Newswire) MIAMI, Nov. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, VITAS Healthcare, the nation's leading provider of end-of-life care, launched the industry's first comprehensive opioid conversion tool ...

There are studies that show that once patients develop an opioid-use disorder, and if they don’t use medication to treat it, there is about a 90 percent risk of relapse in the first year after detox.

N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor activation has been implicated in the pathobiology of inflammatory, nociceptive and neuropathic pain, opioid tolerance, opioid-induced hyperalgesia, and central ...