A batch of drugs containing a powerful opiate recalled for risk of overdose
The National Medicines Agency indicated Thursday, January 24 to recall a batch of Pecfent 400. The bottles of this solution ...
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Opioid crisis: how to better detect addictions
To save people who have become addicted to opioids, better monitoring of their medical course is necessary. THE ESSENTIAL The ...
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Opioid crisis in the United States: a record fine of 572 million dollars for Johnson & Johnson
American justice recognized Monday, August 26 the responsibility of the Janssen laboratory, pharmaceutical division of Johnson & Johnson, in the ...
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Opioid crisis: a device to detect overdoses
American researchers are in the process of developing a device capable of detecting overdoses and automatically delivering a drug, giving ...
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United States: doctor signs 335,000 opioid prescriptions and disappears in Bahamas
In West Virginia, US, a doctor has signed more than 300,000 opioid prescriptions in less than ten years in a ...
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Richard Sackler: a billionaire rich thanks to opiates patents an anti-addiction treatment
One of the heirs of the American pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma has just obtained a patent for a new anti-opioid ...
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Dependence: pregnant women addicted to opiates give birth to addicted babies
In the United States, the number of pregnant women addicted to opiates has tripled in at least 28 states. This ...
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Overdoses: Nalscue obtains marketing authorization
The ANSM has granted Marketing Authorization for the antidote to opioid overdoses. After a winding journey, the drug will finally ...
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Opioids: five laboratories prosecuted for reducing side effects
The State of Ohio files a complaint against five pharmaceutical companies accused of playing a major role in the crisis ...
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Fentanyl: colored patches to limit misuse
The fentanyl patches will now have different colors depending on the dosage, to avoid potentially fatal misuse.Fentanyl patches get a ...
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Painkiller: a new molecule with fewer side effects
Researchers have successfully tested a new molecule that is more effective against pain than morphine in rodents, without its side ...
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Prince: died of a fentanyl overdose
The American singer succumbed to an overdose of Fentanyl, a powerful opioid analgesic.The hypothesis had been put forward the day ...
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Naloxone: the antidote to overdoses still awaits a green light
The drug against opiate overdoses, licit and illicit, should be the subject of distribution programs among populations at risk, but ...
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Abuse of painkillers: drug users more at risk
Consumers of illicit substances, such as cannabis, cocaine and heroin, are more exposed to the risks of abuse of painkillers, ...
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Kratom should be classified as an opiate
© iStockPhotos"We can say that the compounds in kratom are opiates" just declared the commissioner of the American Food and ...
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Opioid overdoses: an effective drug that is not used enough
69,000 people die of opiate overdoses each year, recalls the WHO. It recommends that each country expand access to Naxolone, ...
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Dafalgan affair in Georgia: the Frenchwoman finally free
Two French women had been arrested in Georgia for possessing codeine Dafalgan. Hatice Kaynar was finally able to return home, ...
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French woman detained for 11 days in Georgia for possession of Dafalgan
One of the two French women arrested in Georgia for possession of codeine Dafalgan is still in prison. This analgesic ...
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Low back pain: paracetamol has no interest at the end of the episode
According to a study, to relieve acute lower back pain, paracetamol is no more effective than a placebo. Anyway, during ...
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Help the mother to protect the child
In the United States, 1 in 300 children are born craving because their mother used drugs or medication during her ...
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