#Oregon’s #PDAB was built to lower #RXDrug prices, but power interests and the industry's murky pricing systems are keeping it from doing its job. Meanwhile, states like Colorado are proving that real #reform IS possible. (1/2)

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Only 1% of people talking about their #RxDrug #overdose experience on reddit forums mention calling the poison center #SoMe #ACMT2017

To fight #Rxdrug misuse, we may soon be giving ingestable biosensors to patients to swallow with their 💊 💊 so says @skinnypanda_md #ACMT2017

How the Epidemic of Drug Overdose Deaths Rippled Across America (Published 2016) Drug deaths have surged in nearly every U.S. county.

Prescription painkiller explosion sends drug overdose death ripples across America #rxdrug #foamtox

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Elizabeth Warren asks CDC to consider legal marijuana as alternative painkiller The Massachusetts senator called for more research to be done on medical marijuana and prescription opioid addiction amid abuse and overdose epidemic

Massachusetts senator asks @CDCgov to consider #marijuana as alt painkiller to opioids #Rxdrug #painkillerskill

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91% of patients who survive opioid overdose are prescribed more opioids Doctors call for better treatment as opioid overdose deaths skyrocket.

Doctors continue to fuel the fire of the #RX opioid overdose epidemic. #Rxdrug #Drugmafia #mindfulness

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Quadrupling of neonatal abstinence syndrome from 2006 to 2013 , an unexpected consequence of the #RxDrug epidemic #NACCT15

Just How Unsafe are Painkillers? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has strengthened its warning that certain painkillers can cause heart problems.

This article about "unsafe painkillers" from @TIMEHealth is as tone deaf as you can be during this #Rxdrug epidemic

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Emergency Physicians Are Not Likely To Prescribe Opioids To Discharged Patients While some people visit primary care physicians when they're in pain, others head to the emergency room. With emergency physicians wanting to provide pain relief to their patients, prescribing opioids to discharged patients may seem like the best option to some — but many physicians are refusing to jump the gun too soon. Published in the Annals of [...]

Great quote from @LNelsonMD about his article describing #opioid prescriptions trends from the ER #Rxdrug @Forbes

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Clinical risk factors for adverse cardiovascular events following drug ODs #FOAMed #Rxdrug @SinaiEM @acmt @SAEMonline

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.@LNelsonMD at #ACMT15 : Did you know: Many PDMP programs (incl NY) have ability to trigger DOH red flag reports with 1 click #Rxdrug

Mazer @ #acmt2015: Opioid deaths increased disproportionately in women over the last decade. Not explained by prescribing practices. #Rxdrug

Oral #cannabidiol safely co-administered with #opioids - possible future role for #Rxdrug #addiction@acmt @SinaiEM

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DARE plays 911 tape of mom finding her 17-yr-old son dead from #Rxdrug #overdose at highschool antidrug assemblies

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Evidence that we are making headway in the prescription opioid epidemic. #bouttime #Rxdrug @RADARS_System @acmt

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Nice example of community #naloxone training seminars for #Rxdrug overdoses.And it works!

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Top 10 Painkillers in the US As part of federal efforts to curb prescription drug abuse, the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is reclassifying hydrocodone-combination drugs (Vicodin/AbbVie) as a schedule 2 controlled substance. But even if the tighter controls mean some doctors will switch appropriate patients to schedule 3 drugs, like acetaminophen with codeine, alternative painkillers have a long way to go to topple the market leader, according to data from IMS Health.

Top 10 #Rxdrug painkillers in the US, vicodin beat out percocet in a landslide!#thingsthatmakeyougohmmmmmm

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Great report on #Rxdrug epidemic by @CheThinks on #TheDailyShow #MustSeeTV Videoand CDC facts

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>34K U.S. #ER visits per year for "unsupervised" #Rxdrug exposures in kids! #Buprenorphine was #1 and clonidine 2nd.

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