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Drug Abuse

  • ACEP Joins National Opioid Working Group

    ACEP has joined dozens of other medical groups to participate in the U.S. Department of Health and...
  • Naloxone Distribution Strategies Needed in Emergency Departments

    The Case A 57-year-old man is brought in by family in a private vehicle after a “heroin...
  • Florida Opioid Abuse Legislation Tied to Dip in Prescriptions

    Florida’s efforts to curb opioid abuse by registering pain clinics and electronically monitoring prescriptions may have helped...

ACEP Joins National Opioid Working Group

March 16, 2016 - ACEP Now - 0 Comment

ACEP has joined dozens of other medical groups to participate in the U.S. Department of Health and…

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Naloxone Distribution Strategies Needed in Emergency Departments

March 16, 2016 - Elizabeth A. Samuels, MD, MPH, Jason Hoppe, DO, Joan Papp, MD, FACEP; Lauren Whiteside, MD, MS, Ali S. Raja, MD, MBA, MPH, and Edward Bernstein, MD, FACEP - 1 Comment

The Case A 57-year-old man is brought in by family in a private vehicle after a “heroin…

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Florida Opioid Abuse Legislation Tied to Dip in Prescriptions

September 2, 2015 - Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) - 0 Comment

Florida’s efforts to curb opioid abuse by registering pain clinics and electronically monitoring prescriptions may have helped…

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Congress Questions Ethics Behind FDA Approval of Zohydro ER

June 10, 2014 - Jessica Kinsella - 0 Comment

The FDA’s approval of the hydrocodone drug Zohydro ER has been met with criticism from health care…

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Emergency Physicians Urged Not to Prescribe New Opioid, Zohydro ER, Given High Potential for Abuse

June 10, 2014 - Frank LoVecchio, DO, MPH, FACEP - 1 Comment

Despite the United States encompassing just 5 percent of the world’s population, it accounts for 84 percent…

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Critics of Zohydro ER Approval Suspect Conflict of Interest with Pharmaceutical Industry

June 10, 2014 - Paul Kivela, MD, MBA, FACEP - 0 Comment

Whether you buy into a Food and Drug Administration conspiracy theory or not, there are many problems…

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Alcohol and Tobacco, not Marijuana, are True Gateway Drugs

May 9, 2014 - ACEP Now - 0 Comment

Having practiced EM for over 35 years, I respectfully take issue with Professor Ducharme’s reference to marijuana…

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