FDA approves over-the-counter Narcan. Here's what it means
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved selling naloxone without a prescription, setting the overdose-reversing drug on course to become the first opioid treatment drug to be sold over the counter. It’s a move that some advocates have long sought as a way to improve access to a…#gaithersburg #maryland #emergentbiosolutions #fda #narcan #oxycontin #purduepharma #josebenitez #uscentersformedicaid #medicareservices (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 29, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Less Abuse With Extended-Release Oxycodone, Poison Center Data Suggest
(MedPage Today) -- FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- An abuse-deterrent formulation of oxycodone led to fewer severe medical outcomes and less intentional abuse compared with other opioid products, poison center data found.
Of 189 exposures to oxycodone... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - March 28, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Biden Administration Moves to Limit Telehealth Prescriptions for Some Drugs
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration moved Friday to require patients see a doctor in person before getting attention deficit disorder medication or addictive painkillers, toughening access to the drugs against the backdrop of a deepening opioid crisis.
The proposal could overhaul the way millions of Americans get some prescriptions after three years of relying on telehealth for doctor’s appointments by computer or phone during the pandemic.
The Drug Enforcement Administration said late Friday it plans to reinstate once longstanding federal requirements for powerful drugs that were waived once COVID-19 hit, en...
Source: TIME: Health - February 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AMANDA SEITZ and LINDSAY WHITEHURST / AP Tags: Uncategorized wire Source Type: news
Expert says Murdaugh's pill habit is possible could lead to unprovoked outburst
The patriarch of South Carolina's legal dynasty, 54, said he initially got hooked on oxycodone after a football injury. He says that he was taking nearly 70 pills each day before being arrested. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Documents Reveal Oxford University'Addicted' To Sackler Family's Drug Money
Documents Reveal Oxford University 'Addicted' To Sackler Family's Drug Money There are no "Pablo Escobar" or "El Chapo Guzman" named buildings at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England, but the disgraced billionaire Sackler family, partially responsible for the deadly US opioid epidemic,…#sacklerfamily #chapoguzman #universityofoxford #oxford #sacklers #purduepharma #recallpurdue #oxycontin #ashmoleanmuseum #worcestercollege (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
McKinsey To Shed 2,000 Jobs In One Of Its Biggest Rounds Of Cuts Ever
McKinsey & Co. plans to eliminate about 2,000 jobs, one of the consulting giant's biggest rounds of cuts ever. The firm known for devising staff-reduction plans for its clients is taking the ax to some of its own, with the move expected to focus on support staff in roles that don't have direct…#mckinseyco #projectmagnolia #djcarella #microsoftcorp #goldmansachsgroupinc #bobsternfels #kevinsneader #oxycontin #warfortalent (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Opioid Addiction Crisis & U.S. National Security
Methadone Maintenance Therapy is offered in Thailand to reduce harm for people dependent on injected opioids, like heroin. Credit: World Bank/Trinn Suwannapha
Opioids are a class of drugs that includes the illegal drug heroin as well as power pain relievers available by prescription, such as oxycodone (Oxycontin), hydrocodone (Vicodin), codeine, morphine, fentanyl, methadone, and many others.By Geetika Chandwani and Purnaka L. de SilvaNEW YORK, Feb 10 2023 (IPS) The opioid addiction crisis in the United States is an acute public health emergency and a profound threat to national security – which is caused by the...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 10, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Geetika Chandwani and Purnaka de Silva Tags: Crime & Justice Development & Aid Economy & Trade Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
‘American Pain,’ Premiering on CNN Tonight, Documents Twin Brothers Who Became Florida’s Opioid Kingpins
The Sacklers of OxyContin infamy have become indelibly tied to the opioid crisis in America. But the truth is they were far from the only contributors to a drug epidemic that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in recent years. Take Chris and Jeff George, for instance. The steroid-jacked…#oxycontin #jeffgeorge #florida #disneyland #darrenfoster #fbi #kurtmckenzie #foster #chrisgeorge #i95 (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Appeals court clears the way for more lawsuits over Johnson's Baby Powder
Appeals court clears the way for more lawsuits over Johnson's Baby Powder Tens of thousands of people who say they were sickened by Johnson's Baby Powder are once again free to sue the manufacturer, after a federal appeals court rejected Johnson & Johnson's effort to block those lawsuits through…#johnsonjohnson #jonruckdeschel # #ltlmanagement #georgiapacific #dickdurbin #dill #purduepharma #sacklers #oxycontin (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Deaths of despair may be driven by loss of religion, new research paper argues
So-called deaths of despair such as from suicide or alcohol abuse have been skyrocketing for middle-aged white Americans. It’s been blamed on various phenomenon, including opioid abuse. But a new research paper finds a different culprit — declining religious practice. The working paper, from Tyler…#wellesleycollege #tylergiles #danielhungerman #tamaroostrom #oxycontin #ohiostateuniversity (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cinema Eye Honors Hand Top Awards To ‘All That Breathes,’ ‘All The Beauty And The Bloodshed’
All That Breathes and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed — the two frontrunners for best documentary at the Oscars — split the top awards at the 16th annual Cinema Eye Honors in New York tonight. Filmmaker Laura Poitras won Outstanding Direction for her work on All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. But…#benbernhard #territory #unforgettable #cinemaeyehonors #bloodshed #delhi #oxycontin #sacklers #nadeemandsaud #oscars (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cedar Rapids Nurse Sentenced to Five Years in Federal Prison for Stealing Narcotics from Three Corridor Hospitals
FDA OCI, Sarah Jean Moses, Cedar Rapids, IA, registered nurse, RN, divert, tamper, narcotics, own use, hospitals, sentence, five years, federal prison, opioids, hydromorphone, Dilaudid, morphine, oxycodone, vials, saline, "patient combing", illegal, access, patient, files, (Source: Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) Press Releases)
Source: Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) Press Releases - January 11, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: DOJ Source Type: news
Nan Goldin and Laura Poitras: Two Artists, One Devastating Film
The documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” tells a complex story of personal trauma and protest. But first the collaborators needed to reach an agreement. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - November 16, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Esther Zuckerman Tags: Documentary Films and Programs Museums Art OxyContin (Drug) Goldin, Nan Poitras, Laura All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Movie) Content Type: Personal Profile Source Type: news
US agency softens opioid prescribing guidelines for doctors
The nation’s top public health agency has revised its guidelines for U.S. doctors prescribing oxycodone and other opioid painkillers (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - November 3, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
CVS and Walgreens Announce Opioid Settlements Totaling $10 Billion
Two of the largest U.S. pharmacy chains, CVS Health and Walgreen Co., announced agreements in principle Wednesday to pay about $5 billion each to settle lawsuits nationwide over the toll of opioids, and a lawyer said Walmart is in discussions for a deal.
Together, the developments amount to what could be the last round of huge settlements after years of litigation over the drug industry’s role in an overdose crisis that has been linked to more than 500,000 deaths in the U.S. over the past two decades.
In the lawsuits, governments said pharmacies filled prescriptions they should have flagged as inappropriate.
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Source: TIME: Health - November 2, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: GEOFF MULVIHILL/AP Tags: Uncategorized Drugs healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
