opioids
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Clinical Care
Opioid Prescriptions Drop Nearly 10% When Docs Told of Patients' OD Deaths
Researchers say behavioral 'nudges' could play a critical role in reducing the opioid epidemic.
Clinical Care
Clinicians Who Learn Of A Patient's Opioid Death Modestly Cut Back On Prescriptions
The ones who knew about the overdose death cut the overall volume of opioids they prescribed by almost 10% over...
Strategy
How Rival Opioid Makers Sought To Cash In On Alarm Over OxyContin's Dangers
The growing cluster of lawsuits argue that drugmakers set out to deceive doctors and the public by claiming their products...
Clinical Care
Patients With Chronic Pain Feel Caught In An Opioid-Prescribing Debate
Faced with skyrocketing drug overdoses, states are cracking down on opioid prescribing. Some patients with chronic pain say they are...
Surgeon Sentenced to Life in Prison for Overdose Death
Florida spine surgeon Johnny Clyde Benjamin, 52, used his Vero Beach office to manufacture counterfeit oxycodone, which was traced to...
Nursing
3 Ways to Support Nurses During the Opioid Crisis
With opioid addiction and overdose on the rise, one nurse leader developed a program to support nurses caring for that...
Clinical Care
Opioid Makers, Blamed for Overdose Epidemic, Cut Back on Marketing Payments to Doctors
As ProPublica updates Dollars for Docs, we found that drugmakers spent less money to market opioids to doctors in 2016...
Clinical Care
'Time's Up': Covered California Takes Aim At Hospital C-Section Rates
Hospitals are expected to perform fewer unnecessary cesarean sections, prescribe fewer opioids, and cut back on the use of imaging...