Pain Management

Increased expansion and availability of naloxone may prove to be a monumental aspect of the public health response to the opioid crisis.

The FDA has approved the submission of a supplemental new drug application (sNDA) that expands the use of bupivacaine liposome injectable suspension to include patients aged 6 years and older for single-dose infiltration as a postsurgical local analgesia.

The study results reiterate the importance of interventions to lower prescribing rates of potentially inappropriate drugs among older adults.

Preliminary research by the American Heart Association suggests the opioid epidemic in the United States may have led to an increase in the number of strokes due to bacterial infections of the heart (infective endocarditis).

Pharmacy's History: German chemist Felix Hoffmann worked on the substances at Bayer during a 2-Week period in 1897.

Investigators found an average difference of 12% in the range of fracture-associated drug prescribing when comparing hospital referral regions.

This activity is supported by an independent medical education grant from AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Health system employee’s dismissal is based on medicinal use of marijuana under 2016 law.

The study is the first of its kind to focus on the effect of cannabis on blood pressure, heart rate, and metabolic parameters in adults 60 years of age and older with hypertension.

Opioid overdoses are increasing, and pharmacists can play an integral role in prevention.

The drug is a novel, nonopioid, sustained-release local analgesic indicated for use as postsurgical analgesia for up to 72 hours.

When conducting a cesarean delivery, the use of a wound infusion pump in combination with enhanced recovery efforts was found to reduce opioid use by more than 80%.

This activity is supported by an independent medical education grant from AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

This activity is supported by an independent medical education grant from AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Participants with severe withdrawal symptoms were more likely to be younger, longtime and frequent users of cannabis, and to have worse mental health.

Cannabis use and cannabinoids influence various immune disorders and treatments, mostly via CB2 regulation, according to a virtual session at the at the ASHP 2020 Midyear meeting.

According to research conducted at Rush University Medical Center, opioid use may increase patients’ risk of developing pancreatic cancer.

A pilot study published today in Addiction found that a collaborative approach to treating opioid use disorder that relies heavily on community pharmacists is feasible and may increase adherence and participant satisfaction.

Decreases in prescription opioid volume over the past 9 years have been driven by changes in clinical use, regulatory, and reimbursement policies, and in progressively more restrictive legislation enacted since 2012.

Monitoring outpatient prescribing patterns has been a major challenge for the Lifespan health system in Rhode Island, since it has over 1.5 million electronic prescriptions written annually.

The COVID-19 Pandemic has compounded the opioid crisis.

The FDA-approved generic is therapeutically equivalent to Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals’ acetaminophen injection product (Ofirmev).

The combination of COVID-19 with opioid-induced respiratory depression, especially in an elderly patient, could be deadly.

According to the study results, women interested in medical cannabis reported marginally lower levels of support from their primary care provider and significantly less support from specialist physicians.

Webinar participants discuss best practices for pharmacists with patients contending with both issues.

A CDC report reveals that approximately 9% of teens between the ages of 15 and 19 received an opioid prescription in 2018.

In a recent study analyzing US commercial dental visits between 2011 and 2015, 29.3% of dental visits included opioid prescriptions that exceeded the recommended amount of less than 80 morphine milligram equivalents.

Cannabis use is becoming much more prevalent in the United States, as several more states have recently legalized it for recreational or medicinal use.

Statin use in certain patients may lead to increased muscle pain so severe it can affect adherence.

Approximately 1 in 3 high school seniors (31.8%) who reported misusing prescription opioids as high school seniors between 1997 and 2000 went on to use heroin by age 35.