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Opioid Pain Killers Linked to Increased Risk of Some Birth Defects

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Publication Date: 

March 2, 2011

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Tags: birth defects, hydrocodone, neonatal addiction, newborns, news articles, opioid abuse, oxycodone, press release

Curtailing diversion and abuse of opioid analgesics without jeopardizing pain treatment

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Volkow, Nora D., McLellan, Thomas A.

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April 6, 2011; 305(13):1346-1347

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JAMA
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Tags: adolescents, diversion, hydrocodone, journal articles, opioid abuse, oxycodone, pain management

Active surveillance of abused and misused prescription opioids using poison center data: a pilot study and descriptive comparison

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Hughes, A.A., Bogdan, G.M., Dart, R.C.

Publication Date: 

2007

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Clinical Toxicology. 45(2):144-51
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Tags: DAWN data, geographic comparisons, hydrocodone, journal articles, opioid abuse, overdoses and deaths, oxycodone, poison center data, surveillance

A comparison of drug overdose deaths involving methadone and other opioid analgesics in West Virginia

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Paulozzi, L., Logan, J., Hall, A., McKinstry, E., Kaplan, J., Crosby, A.

Publication Date: 

2009

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Addiction. 104(9):1541-8.
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Tags: benzodiazepines, demographic characteristics, hydrocodone, journal articles, medical examiner data, methadone, overdoses and deaths, oxycodone, PMP data, substance abuse, West Virginia

National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act (NASPER): balancing substance abuse and medical necessity

Author: 

Manchikanti, L., Brown, K.R., Singh, V.

Publication Date: 

2002

Publication: 
Pain Physician. 5(3):294-319.
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Tags: addiction, balancing patient care and drug control, benzodiazepines, Controlled Substances Act, diversion, EDT, effectiveness of prescription control, history of substance abuse, hydrocodone, journal articles, MCPPs, methadone, NASPER, opioid abuse, pain management, PMP data, pseudoaddiction, psychiatric disorders, state comparisons, undertreatment of pain

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