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ADA Highlights Opioid Policies Designed to Curb Misuse and Abuse

Noting recently published research connecting opioid prescriptions for dental procedures to risks of abuse...

Arizona Dentists Make Progress in Fighting the Opioid Epidemic

Arizona has been working diligently over the last few years to combat the opioid...

Alternatives More Effective Than Opioids in Treating Dental Pain

Opioids aren’t among the most effective or longest lasting options available for relief from...

Medicaid: A Prime Driver Behind the Nation’s Opioid Epidemic

On January 17, 2018, the US Senate’s Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs...

Conference to Spotlight Pain Management Without Opioids

As the opioid crisis continues nationwide, the American Association of Endodontists (AAE) will address...

ADA Announces New Opioid Policy

The ADA has announced a new policy on opioids supporting mandates on prescription limits...

UAB School of Dentistry Revamps Its Opioid Education Program

Alabama is first in the nation in opioid prescriptions per capita, according to the...

Dentists Can Help Stop the Opioid Epidemic

Arizona is among six states that have declared the opioid epidemic a public health...

Dentists Wrestle with Prescribing Opioids

Opioid abuse continues to dominate the national conversation. In 2015, 12.5 million people misused...

Surgeon General Campaign Aims to Reduce Opioid Prescriptions

With opioid overdose deaths quadrupling since 1999, US Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD,...