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Head and Neck Cancer Patients Face Greater Opioid Addiction Risks
While head and neck cancer patients often receive pain medications during recovery from surgery,...
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Youth at Greater Risk of Opioid Addiction After Dental Prescriptions
Teens and young adults who receive their initial opioid prescriptions from their dentists or...
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Class of Drug Linked to Surge in Opioid-Related Deaths
People with chronic pain often are prescribed benzodiazepines to treat anxiety, panic attacks, and...
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Oral Healthcare Could Improve Substance Abuse Disorder Treatment
The University of Utah School of Dentistry has preliminary results from a first of...
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Dentists Can Help Stop the Opioid Epidemic
Arizona is among six states that have declared the opioid epidemic a public health...
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Dental Organizations Take the Lead in Fighting the Opioid Crisis
While President Trump has declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency, the federal...
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Dentists Wrestle with Prescribing Opioids
Opioid abuse continues to dominate the national conversation. In 2015, 12.5 million people misused...
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100 Million Opioids Go Unused After Tooth Extractions
More than half of the opioids prescribed to patients after the extractions of wisdom...
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ADA Joins White House Fight Against Rx Drug Abuse
President Obama launched an initiative to combat rising rates of opioid and other drug...