Few older adults receive opioids before going to a hospital even though it’s recommended when people are in transport. There’s a benefit to getting the medications early, a recent study shows.

4. The shortage is expected to last for the next 12 to 18 months, Dr. Soumerai noted. “Our hospital’s current supply of intravenous opioids will last about four weeks at best,” she wrote.

Background: The ketamine is used to control refractory cancer pain as adjuvant to opioids. However, usefulness of ketamine has not yet been confirmed due to lack of previous studies. Additionally, ...

The overall consumption of opioids was lower in the TENS group (4.53 vs 11.10 morphine equivalents; P < .001); however, 46% of patients in this group needed additional opioid treatment.

AcelRx Pharmaceuticals Announces Presentation of Investigator-Initiated Trial Results Comparing AcelRx's Sufentanil Sublingual Tablet (SST) Versus Intravenous Opioids for Postoperative Pain at the ...

Three prospective cohorts of people who inject drugs (PWID) from Vancouver, Canada, provided the data for the study, which set out to evaluate the association between cannabis use and intravenous drug ...

Synthetic opioids, primarily the powerful drug fentanyl, are the main driver of sky-high overdose deaths in the US. CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Leana Wen explains what makes fentanyl so dangerous and ...