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#opioid — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. #GiftArticle on #SCOTUS’ ruling on #PurduePharma #opioid case

    The #SupremeCourt blocked a controversial proposed Purdue #Pharma bankruptcy plan that would have provided billions to help address the nation’s #OpioidCrisis in exchange for protecting the #Sackler family from future lawsuits.
    
The closely watched fight involving the maker of #OxyContin is part of a national reckoning over the role of #drugmakers & others in the #PublicHealth opioid #addiction crisis.

    #law
    wapo.st/3VLn8UX

  2. Researchers use stem cells to generate human neurons resembling those in the brain that control breathing during opioid reactions, for eventual chip devices to test overdose therapies.

    sciencebusiness.technewslit.co

    #News #Press #Science #Business #Opioid #Overdose #Preclinical #Toxicity #Neurons #Breathing #Naloxone #Fentanyl #Codeine #Brain #Methadone #StemCells #Biotechnology #Engineering #Chemistry

  3. Oliver also noted that in Alam et al (2012) patients who take NSAIDs within 7 days postsurgery were almost 4x more likely to become chronic #NSAID users at 1 year postsurgery. Many doctors have emphasized the danger of chronic NSAID use, yet we don't see the same calls for banning NSAIDs. It's true that there is not an illicit NSAID drug trade, but as Oliver et al (2020) pointed out, it's misleading to compare prescription #opioid use to #illicit opioid overdose deaths.