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Mashup Score: 0Low Opioid Fill Rates Continue Despite Termination of a Financial Incentive for Opioid-Free Vasectomies - Catherine Nam - 8 month(s) ago
In this conversation, Catherine Nam joins Ruchika Talwar in discussing her AUA 2023 award-winning poster, “Low Opioid Fill Rates Continue Despite Termination of a Financial Incentive for Opioid-Free Vasectomies.” The research focuses on the aftermath of the termination of the Modifier-22 incentive that facilitated an additional 35% reimbursement for opioid-sparing recovery services in Michigan….
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Mashup Score: 2Overdose of Novel Potent Opioids Requires More Naloxone - 8 month(s) ago
The finding that novel potent opioids require more naloxone to reverse an overdose suggests these drugs are more potent than fentanyl and heroin, researchers say.
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Patients presenting at the emergency department with an overdose of a nonfentanyl #opioid — referred to as a "novel potent opioid" (NPO) — require more #naloxone compared with those who overdose on #fentanyl, new research shows. https://t.co/DRXmgVaJ9U
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Mashup Score: 1Guidelines Call for Shots, Nasal Spray in Naloxone Kits - 8 month(s) ago
New Canadian naloxone guidelines incorporate the views of people who buy drugs in the unregulated market, those who have administered overdose medication, and health professionals.
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Take-home #naloxone kits for treating #opioid overdoses should, where possible, offer intramuscular and intranasal formulations of the lifesaving drug, according to a new guidance. https://t.co/WOqIM6nTjy
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Mashup Score: 0Low Opioid Fill Rates Continue Despite Termination of a Financial Incentive for Opioid-Free Vasectomies - Catherine Nam - 9 month(s) ago
In this conversation, Catherine Nam joins Ruchika Talwar in discussing her AUA 2023 award-winning poster, “Low Opioid Fill Rates Continue Despite Termination of a Financial Incentive for Opioid-Free Vasectomies.” The research focuses on the aftermath of the termination of the Modifier-22 incentive that facilitated an additional 35% reimbursement for opioid-sparing recovery services in Michigan….
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📢 New insights on #opioid use after vasectomies! 🏥 Check out this informative discussion by @CatherineSNamMD @UMich and @RuchikaTalwarMD @VUMCurology on low opioid fill rates despite the termination of financial incentives for opioid-free #vasectomies > https://t.co/TnCctZbKLr https://t.co/s30f2OBa7d
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Mashup Score: 71stats - 9 month(s) ago
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. It is a major contributor to fatal and nonfatal overdoses in the U.S. 1 There are two types of fentanyl: pharmaceutical fentanyl and illegally made fentanyl. Both are considered synthetic opioids. Pharmaceutical fentanyl is prescribed by doctors to treat severe pain, especially after surgery and for advanced-stage cancer. Howe ver, most recent cases of fentanyl-related overdose are linked to
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Fentanyl is a deadly synthetic #opioid that’s often illegally made to look like other drugs. It’s the most common drug involved in #overdose deaths. This National #FentanylPrevention and Awareness Day, learn more about the dangers of #fentanyl: https://t.co/fH7Fbu7rc6 https://t.co/kDDLt15KKX
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The Supreme Court blocked Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy proceedings Thursday in a decision that also halts the deal granting immunity to the Sackler family. The Sackler family owned and operated Purdue Pharma, LLP, which manufactured OxyContin and marketed the drug with a misleading claim that the drug was less addictive. Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges for its role in
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A court ruling previously protected the Sackler family from #opioid lawsuits in exchange for a 💲6 billion contribution to Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy plan, but the #SupremeCourt recently blocked that deal. 🔗 Read more: https://t.co/TvxGemGr80
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Opioid use disorder medication remains underused, and cost appears to contribute, studies show
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"Most individuals with #opioid use disorders are still not on recommended medications." -- @ashleyleech, of @VUHealthPol, discussing how out-of-pocket costs remain a barrier to #buprenorphine use. @MedPagePsych https://t.co/zVzo8ot5fv
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Macy said she hopes her books and the Hulu series are helping to break the silence and stigma around substance use disorders. “One woman I know said, ‘I watched the show and, for the first time in …
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This year’s Menninger lecture was in the form of a conversation with Macy and Stephen Loyd, M.D. on #opioid addiction and how to help break the silence and stigma around substance use disorders. https://t.co/q5oG28zuka #APAAM23 #MedX #PsychX #Addiction https://t.co/U1xYaE9cYt
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Mashup Score: 025 Years On, Oxycontin Push Still Exacting a Deadly Toll - 9 month(s) ago
Aggressive marketing of OxyContin from the mid-1990s led to an increase in viral and bacterial complications of injection drug use as well as illicit opioid-related deaths 25 years later.
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Aggressive marketing of OxyContin in the mid-1990s not only fueled the #opioid crisis but also the spread of infectious diseases associated with injection drug use, a new analysis shows. https://t.co/psRmkqO3Yp https://t.co/oCEJryGGNO
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Mashup Score: 0Cannabis May be Viable Alternative to Reduce Opioid Dependence - 9 month(s) ago
Most (73%) patients surveyed expressed they sought to completely stop or never start using opioids for their chronic pain.
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Can #cannabis help reduce #opioid dependence? Learn more: https://t.co/lBcaafAoat
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📢 New insights on #opioid use after vasectomies! 🏥 Check out this informative discussion by @CatherineSNamMD @UMich and @RuchikaTalwarMD @VUMCurology on low opioid fill rates despite the termination of financial incentives for opioid-free #vasectomies > https://t.co/TnCctZbKLr https://t.co/eQZ3mOwLgk