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Anchor lead: What are the barriers to the use of buprenorphine for opioid addiction? Elizabeth Tracey reports Buprenorphine helps people kick the opioid habit, but it is a prescription drug that requires some work for a physician to use. That …
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Anchor lead: Why aren’t more doctors using buprenorphine to help people overcome opiates? Elizabeth Tracey reports Buprenorphine is one drug that helps people who are trying to overcome opioid addiction, but a recent research letter in the Journal of the …
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This week’s topics include end of life care in a spectrum of illness, dementia and blood transfusions, coprescribing of naloxone with opioids, and treatment of binge eating disorder. Program notes: 0:31 End of life treatments 1:32 Compared with cancer 2:33 …
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Anchor lead: People are using the over the counter medication Imodium as an opiate substitute, Elizabeth Tracey reports. People who are addicted to opiate medications have been turning to the over the counter medication called loperamide as a legal and …
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Anchor lead: An implantable medicine may help opioid addicts, Elizabeth Tracey reports Beating opioid addiction may now be easier with the use of an existing medication called buprenorphine, in a newly FDA approved formulation that is implanted under the skin. …
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Anchor lead: New prescribing guidelines for opioid medications may affect you, Elizabeth Tracey reports In the wake of new opioid prescribing guidelines released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, don’t be surprised if your physician suggest alternatives to …
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Anchor lead: The CDC has released new guidelines for opioid prescriptions, Elizabeth Tracey reports Will new opioid prescription guidelines released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention help stem the tide of opioid deaths? Eric Strain, a drug abuse …
