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Dental Opioid Prescriptions Put Families at Risk of Overdose
Overdose rates are two and a half times higher among patients who filled a...
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Tennessee Dentists Prescribing Fewer Opioids
Far fewer opioid prescriptions were written for TennCare dental patients in 2019 than in...
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More Than Half of Dental Opioid Prescriptions Exceed CDC Guidelines
About half of the opioid prescriptions written by dentists in the United States exceed...
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Delaware Campaign Aims to Prevent Opioid Abuse After Dental Procedures
The Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH) is launching a campaign to increase awareness...
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First-Time Opioid Prescription Rates Decline
A national call for restraint in opioid prescribing has yielded dramatic progress in clinician...
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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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Dental Pain Leads to Paracetamol Overdoses in the UK
The British Dental Association (BDA) has warned that self-medication must not fill the National...
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Accurate Coding Saves Lives
Opioids including prescription drugs, heroin, and fentanyl killed more than 42,000 people in 2016,...
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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...