This Prescription Drug Is Implicated In Almost A Third Of All Opioid Overdose Deaths
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Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 15, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Lupin launches pain relief drug in US
Lupin said it had received final approval from the US health regulator for its Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen tablets used for providing pain relief. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - March 9, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
America's Opioid Crisis: How Children Are Casualties
America is in the midst of a deadly crisis that is killing people by the thousands.The opioid epidemic in the United States claimed more than 33,000 deaths in 2015, as public health officials call it the worst drug crisis in the nation’s history. Indeed, the deaths from heroin alone have surged and have claimed more lives in 2015 than homicides by guns. These drugs, these opiods, that are used to often block out pain. Whether illegal, such as heroin, or prescribed by doctors yet are also finding their way on to the black market, such as Vicodin and OxyContin, the rise in opioid use in America is both dramatic and disturb...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 27, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
State Lawmakers Push Fight against Opioids
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — In statehouses across the country, lawmakers with loved ones who fell victim to drugs are leading the fight against the nation's deadly opioid-abuse crisis, drawing on tragic personal experience to attack the problem.
A Minnesota state senator whose daughter died of a heroin overdose in a Burger King parking lot — a friend hid the needles instead of calling for help — spearheaded a law that grants immunity to 911 callers. In Wisconsin, a state representative has introduced more than a dozen opioid-related bills in the years since his daughter went from painkillers to heroin to prison. A Penn...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - February 23, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Patient Care Source Type: news
State Lawmakers Push Fight against Opioids
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — In statehouses across the country, lawmakers with loved ones who fell victim to drugs are leading the fight against the nation's deadly opioid-abuse crisis, drawing on tragic personal experience to attack the problem.
A Minnesota state senator whose daughter died of a heroin overdose in a Burger King parking lot — a friend hid the needles instead of calling for help — spearheaded a law that grants immunity to 911 callers. In Wisconsin, a state representative has introduced more than a dozen opioid-related bills in the years since his daughter went from painkillers to heroin to prison. A Penn...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - February 23, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Patient Care Source Type: news
Drugs Vanish at Some VA Hospitals
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal authorities are stepping up investigations at Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers due to a sharp increase in opioid theft, missing prescriptions or unauthorized drug use by VA employees since 2009, according to government data obtained by The Associated Press.
Doctors, nurses or pharmacy staff at federal hospitals — the vast majority within the VA system — siphoned away controlled substances for their own use or street sales, or drugs intended for patients simply disappeared.
Aggravating the problem is that some VA hospitals have been lax in tracking drug supplies. Co...
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - February 20, 2017 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Perrigo Announces FDA Final Approval For Hydrocodone Bitartrate And Homatropine Methylbromide Oral Solution
DUBLIN, Feb. 17, 2017 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Perrigo Company plc (NYSE, TASE: PRGO) today announced it has received final approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for hydrocodone bitartrate and homatropine methylbromide or... Biopharmaceuticals, Generics, FDA Perrigo Company, Hydrocodone, homatropine (Source: HSMN NewsFeed)
Source: HSMN NewsFeed - February 17, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Lupin gets USFDA nod for generic cough relief oral solution
Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Homatropine Methylbromide is indicated for the symptomatic relief of cough in adults and children 6 years of age and older. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - February 16, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Loperamide misuse and abuse - Miller H, Panahi L, Tapia D, Tran A, Bowman JD.
OBJECTIVE: The epidemic of opioid prescription deaths in recent years resulted in the recent rescheduling of hydrocodone-containing products to restrict access to them. Opioid users have recognized that loperamide can ameliorate withdrawal symptoms and als... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 16, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Broader availability of opioid overdose drug is saving lives
America ’s opioid addiction epidemic was one of the biggest health stories of 2016, as reflected in the intense media coverage the topic received — and it is no wonder why. The number of deaths involving prescription opioid medications and heroin continues to rise, having quadrupled since 1999. Some 91 Americans die each day from an opioid overdose, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.One key strategy in the battle to curb opioid overdose deaths has been the use of the drug naloxone, which emergency medical personnel and first responders have used for years to treat people suffering from an...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - February 9, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Oxycodone vs. Hydrocodone: Which Is Better for Pain?
Title: Oxycodone vs. Hydrocodone: Which Is Better for Pain?Category: MedicationsCreated: 11/15/2016 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/6/2017 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Chronic Pain General)
Source: MedicineNet Chronic Pain General - February 6, 2017 Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: news
Charleston Laboratories, Inc. and Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. Receive Complete Response Letter from FDA for NDA for CL-108 (hydrocodone, acetaminophen, promethazine) Tablets
JUPITER, Fla., and PARSIPPANY, N.J., Feb. 3, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Charleston Laboratories, Inc., and Daiichi Sankyo, Inc., confirmed today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Complete Response Letter (CRL) regarding the New... (Source: Drugs.com - New Drug Applications)
Source: Drugs.com - New Drug Applications - February 3, 2017 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Reprexain Tablets (hydrocodone bitartrate and ibuprofen) - new on RxList
(Source: RxList - New and Updated Drug Monographs)
Source: RxList - New and Updated Drug Monographs - February 2, 2017 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Seattle Approves Nation's First Safe Injection Sites In Fight Against Opioid Crisis
In a desperate move to curb Seattle’s deadly opioid crisis, city and county officials have approved a pair of safe sites where addicts will be able to inject heroin and other illegal narcotics under medical supervision.
The sites, which are common in European countries, would be the first of their kind in the United States, The Seattle Times and The Washington Post report.
Late last week, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and King County Executive Dow Constantine signed off on a list of recommendations put forward last year by a 40-member Heroin and Prescription Opiate Addiction Task Force. Those recommenda...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 1, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Vituz (Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Chlorpheniramine Maleate) Oral Solution) - updated on RxList
(Source: RxList - New and Updated Drug Monographs)
Source: RxList - New and Updated Drug Monographs - January 31, 2017 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
