prescription painkillers

The FDA's lopsided inspection process isn't helping America's pharmaceutical industry keep pace with overseas competitors.

According to the CDC, "overdose deaths involving opioids increased from an estimated 70,029 in 2020 to 80,816 in 2021."

A Medicare rebate rule combined with whistleblower laws and protections can provide a much-needed price check on coming cancer and COVID-19 cures.

"For some individuals with TBI, risk factors may converge to create a 'perfect storm,' placing them at an increased risk for opioid use"

The statement was in response to a participant concerned about "forced tapering," the premature or otherwise aggressive removal of opioid patients from their medications.

People largely do not become addicted to opioids after visits to the emergency room for car crashes, falls and other types of acute injuries that might warrant prescription painkillers, a new study shows.

Earlier this week, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) made quick work of destroying more than 16,000 pounds of drugs collected on its National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, according to reporting by NJTV News.

For about every study that demonstrates marijuana and cannabidiol can provide relief to certain types of pain patients, there's another that shows these drugs perform even worse than placebos.

With recent criticism comparing opioid settlements to the tobacco settlements from decades ago—where billions of dollars went unaccounted for—all eyes are on local officials and their burgeoning settlement coffers.

In nearly a dozen cases reviewed by Newsweek, drug firms that flooded the U.S. with deadly painkillers over the years have clauses in their settlements that absolve them from saying they did anything wrong.

Restrictions on prescription opioid prescriptions seem to be sending users toward more dangerous, illicitly made drugs.

Teva Pharmaceuticals will pay less than 0.014 percent of its annual revenue as of 2018 over a 10 year period and will produce free drugs at just a slice of their operating cost.

"Of course states need to be compensated. But the concern is that very little money actually filters down to those who have been most deeply affected," Kate Nicholson, civil rights attorney and patient advocate, told Newsweek in an interview.

More than four out of five doctors are reluctant to take on patients using prescribed opioids, according to a survey of 500 physicians conducted by Quest Diagnostics and the Center on Addiction.

"We're focusing really heavily on restricting access to prescription opioids, but that's because it's what we're comfortable doing," Travis Rieder said. "There's not actually any evidence that these cuts save lives."

After hundreds of chronic pain patients begged the Drug Enforcement Administration to reconsider its proposed cuts to opioid production, the agency told Newsweek it's not responsible for their inability to get prescriptions.

The DEA proposed reducing the manufacturing of prescription opioids for the fourth year in a row, but chronic pain patients are begging the agency to reconsider.

Tramadol is legal in Britain with a proper prescription, but it's a banned substance in Egypt, where it's considered the country's most abused drug.

'Every day that someone can't get treatment is a day they may no longer be able to see the end of.'

The Opioid painkiller is costing the U.S. Health Care System an estimated $78.5 Billion Dollars with an increased 72 percent of Opioid-related hospitalizations.

Lawmakers plan to move the landmark bill to President Obama before the summer.

The singer was reportedly found with prescription painkillers at the time of his death.

To combat the growing opioid addiction epidemic, federal health officials are telling doctors to exercise caution and closely monitor patients.

The presidential candidates are talking about the opioid epidemic that's ravaging places like New Hampshire but offering more sympathy than solutions.

The rising mortality rate of middle-age white Americans can be traced directly to the rise in prescription opioids.

Only one-sixth of people abusing prescription painkillers and heroin actually get help.