Topic: opioid (215 articles)

Description: opiate-like but synthetic drugs

Sub-Topics

• oxycodone - oxycodone (85 articles)
• methadone (40 articles)
• hydrocodone - Hydrocodone (46 articles)
• hydromorphone - Hydromorphone (3 articles)
• meperidine - Meperidine (2 articles)
• tramadol - Tramadol (25 articles)
• buprenorphine - Buprenorphine (15 articles)

Queensbury man arrested after selling pills to undercover officer
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A 38-year-old Queensbury man has been arrested on drug charges after police say he sold pills to an undercover officer. Brad Ballard faces two counts of felony fourth-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance. The Warren... (Fri Jul 04 10:05:04 2008 PDT)

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals-Progenics drug Relistor OK'd in Europe
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(US) A treatment of opioid-induced constipation in advanced illness patients who are receiving palliative care. (Fri Jul 04 09:19:55 2008 PDT)

Social services frustrate neighbours
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(Canada) They list 14 programs, ranging from the methadone clinic on Nicol Street near the downtown to the Clearview detox centre on Haliburton Street deep at the edge of Nanaimo proper. Within a stone's throw from the dow... (Fri Jul 04 08:06:25 2008 PDT)

Public safety log for July 4
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(US) Drug possession: Police responded to the Wawa on Easton Road for a report of a possible drug deal in progress at 5 p.m. The item was a pill, suspected to be Oxycontin, broken in pieces and sealed in plastic. Tyler Gilliland, 19, of Kittery Court in Sellersville, and Renee Ruggiero, 19, of the 300 block of South Line Street in Lansdale, were tak... (Fri Jul 04 06:04:56 2008 PDT)

Rising gas prices pump up Virginia's oil industry
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(US) ... (Fri Jul 04 05:50:09 2008 PDT)

Drug dealer calls policeman, offers him methadone
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(US) When it became clear Henderson was selling methadone. (Fri Jul 04 05:19:44 2008 PDT)

Detoxification and Law and Order
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(US) What should hold the attention and energies of the authorities and of civil society is the continuing problem of drug addiction amongst growing numbers of our youth and the underlying problem of drug trafficking whatever the statistics concerning crime would have us believe. (Fri Jul 04 04:50:46 2008 PDT)

more opioid items (215 articles)

Links

• Managing Pain

Concept definition

• opioid