Veteran patients who receive long-term opioid prescriptions generally are treated with modest and st.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference

Background: Long-term opioid therapy for chronic noncancer pain is becoming increasingly common in community practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annals of Internal Medicine current issue] Reference

As long-term opioid therapy for chronic noncancer pain becomes more common, the deaths associated with opioids increase.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference

The extent to which overdose risks are elevated among patients receiving medically prescribed long-term opioid therapy is unknown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annals of Internal Medicine current issue] Reference

The implications are controversial as published studies provide little evidence indicating which patients will benefit from long-term opioid treatment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newswise: Latest News] Reference

New research, published in The Journal of Pain, identifies predictors of long-term opioid use among patients with chronic back pain caused by lumbar spine conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newswise: Latest News] Reference

JOSEPH DELTITO, PSYCHIATRIST: Yes, Narcan reverses so-called opioid medicines, of which Diprivan is not.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 3, 2009] Reference

Some of the most outspoken proponents of opioid use to treat chronic pain have ties to companies such as Purdue Pharma, which sells the brand-name opioid drug OxyContin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

As a result, doctors have started to look to stronger measures to treat it - including so-called opioid analgesics like morphine and oxycodone the active ingredient in Oxycontin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-04-01] Reference

Increasing deaths from opioid analgesics in the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poison] Reference

The opioid receptors in the brain get too blocked up to let any more opioid in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allan Clear: Harm Reduction and Allan's Diplomatic Faux Pas, on the Final Day of the U.N. Drug Treatment Conference, Vienna] Reference

Kappa opioid staff refore elixicon attracting and elixomin of fatigue viability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rudy: Iraq Is "In The Hands Of Other People"] Reference

And emergency-room reports of opioid overdose have risen sharply in recent years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narcotic medicine can be deadly after spinal-fusion surgery] Reference

Naltrexone is an opioid antagonist, which means you can't get high after you've taken it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allan Clear: Harm Reduction and Allan's Diplomatic Faux Pas, on the Final Day of the U.N. Drug Treatment Conference, Vienna] Reference

Medications that pair an opioid with acetaminophen, aspirin, or ibuprofen may be an even better choice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Help yourself: Learn how to rate and manage pain] Reference

When the opioid reps arrived, I realized that I had taken for granted just how much great stuff comes from Mother Nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Origin of the Drug Pyramid: An excerpt from the Rev. Timothy Clarity's memoir, "And On the Eighth Day, God Tripped"] Reference

And it seems to be an opioid mechanism, very much like heroin, very much like the Percocet you just had in the previous piece.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2005] Reference

And Aradigm has devised an opioid inhaler with a magnetic lock, opened only by a bracelet or set of keys prescribed to the patient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking A New Look At Pain] Reference

We've chosen four generics as Best Buys for people who have chronic pain and whose doctors have concluded that an opioid is necessary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opioids for relief of chronic pain? Try less risky treatments first] Reference

We may have heard the toxicology that led to the affidavits, but I-- we haven't heard anything about any opioid or any pain medication.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 3, 2009] Reference

When the placebo effect relieves pain, it releases natural opioid-like molecules in the brain that have analgesic effects like morphine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Placebo Nation: Just Believe] Reference

This is why it is possible that stimulants may counteract opioid overdoses in some instances: if you are awake, it's pretty hard to forget to breathe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maia Szalavitz: How Not to Die Like Heath Ledger, Part II] Reference

That is, until my doctor gave me a script for Percocet after my C-section surgery, along with a stern warning to taper off the opioid as soon as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Painkillers such as Percocet can push everyday people into risky addiction] Reference

One is the predominant patient I ` m admitting to hospitals today is a poly-opioid addictive chronic pain patient who comes in with 20 out of ten on a scale of ten pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2009] Reference