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Drug overdose deaths, once rare, are now the leading cause of accidental death in the U.S., surpassing peak annual deaths caused by motor vehicle accidents, guns and HIV infection. As a former public ...

Drug overdose deaths, once rare, are now the leading cause of accidental death in the U.S., surpassing peak annual deaths caused by motor vehicle accidents, guns and HIV infection. As a former public ...

Opioids have hit the U.S. hard in the 21st century. Several pharmaceutical companies, like Purdue Pharma and Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), have faced lawsuits related to how their companies marketed ...

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Dr. Andrew Kolodny, the executive director of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing, has been waging war on prescription pain medications for years. His recently-published piece, "The Opioid ...

Quality of life (QoL) in patients with malignant dysphagia: An international randomized trial comparing radiotherapy alone (RT) versus chemoradiotherapy (CRT)—TROG03.01 NCICCTG ES2. MEDD/HDC ratio ...

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The FDA is conducting a workshop to discuss the science (lack thereof, really) of Morphine Milligram Equivalents as it applies to the atrocious CDC 2016 Opioid Prescribing Guidelines. Public comments ...