While the proper administration of Narcan (generic name: naloxone) is important to teach first responders, a new delivery system of the drug that reverses an opioid overdose is available for bystanders and healthcare professionals alike.
Pharmacists play a vital role in educating patients and their caregivers about prescription opioids. Allied Against Opioid Abuse (AAOA), a national initiative for education and awareness to prevent the abuse and misuse of prescription opioids, commissioned a poll and found more than 70 percent of respondents said detailed instructions from pharmacists ...
Addiction is defined by the American Psychiatric Association as, “a brain disease that is manifested by compulsive substance use despite harmful consequence.” Often an addicted person experiences greater tolerance to the effects of a drug, and withdrawal symptoms of ranging severity in the absence of the drug.
For the first time on record, the chance of dying of an accidental opioid overdose (1 in 96) is greater than dying in a car accident (1 in 103) or from a fall (1 in 114). According to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), in 2017 the age-adjusted rate of drug overdose deaths in the United States was almost 10 percent higher (9.6 percent) than ...
