How to Use opioid in a Sentence

opioid

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  • Both warned of lessons that should be learned from the opioid crisis.
    — Olivia Goldhill, STAT, 24 May 2023
  • The drug can save lives by reversing the effect of opioids.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
  • As the Post found, the culprits are not simply the crises of opioids and gun violence.
    — Stat Staff, STAT, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Still, Newsom announced the seizures by the CHP as a success in combating the opioid crisis.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
  • In the New Jersey city of Camden, the battle against opioid overdoses is a daily fight.
    — Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News, 1 July 2023
  • The proud daughter of a former coal miner, Ms. Adkins said she’s witnessed the loss of coal jobs and the influx of opioids in the state with the highest rate of overdoses.
    — Leah Willingham, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Oct. 2023
  • In 2021, Hulu premiered Dopesick, which also followed the early days of the opioid crisis.
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 8 May 2023
  • Sharon Stone is speaking out on the dangers of recreational drug use and the opioid crisis in America.
    — Ashley Hume, Fox News, 15 June 2023
  • Abdallah and Jawad are not the only ones seeing red flags about opioid use in the community.
    — Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2024
  • If finally approved, the deal includes smaller payments for the tens of thousands of victims of the opioid crisis.
    — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The opioid epidemic and the scrutiny that has come in its wake have left doctors wary of prescribing opioids.
    — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Portugal’s prevalence of high-risk opioid use is higher than Germany’s, but lower than that of France and Italy.
    — Catarina Fernandes Martins, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
  • Fentanyl, a powerful opioid, is the deadliest drug in the U.S. today.
    — Fatima Hussein, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Her central concern, though, was always the opioid crisis.
    — William Nash, The Conversation, 17 May 2023
  • In September, a 30-year-old man died in the bathroom from an overdose of fentanyl, a highly potent opioid, and methamphetamine.
    — Sharon Lafraniere, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Among the deaths: One-year-old Nicholas Dominici, who, along with three other children, came into contact with the opioid at his Bronx daycare.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The tests look for opioids, cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana and some other drugs — but not psychedelics.
    — Claire Rush, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The tests look for opioids, cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, and some other drugs – but not psychedelics.
    — Claire Rush and Gene Johnson, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 2023
  • In just under three months, about half of patients have used alcohol and 10 percent opioids, city data shows.
    — Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
  • What to know about using naloxone Naloxone works within a few minutes to block or reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.
    — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • People living there gave him naloxone— a life-saving medicine that quickly treats opioid overdoses — but the man died.
    — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Sep. 2023
  • People who nodded off and died after taking opioids are often found hunched over with their legs curled under them.
    — Natalie Kitroeff Meridith Kohut, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The synthetic opioid crisis in the U.S. has resulted in an increase in overdose deaths, partly as a result of the widespread use of fentanyl.
    — Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 11 May 2023
  • By 2021, about two-thirds of all overdose deaths involved the potent synthetic opioid, according to the report.
    — Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 3 May 2023
  • The tobacco companies now pay, opioids now pay, but the scared alcohol empire doesn’t.
    — Torie Bosch, STAT, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid that is used to treat severe pain when it is used legally.
    — Jonathan Dienst, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The labor unrest comes as the industry confronts the financial fallout from the opioid epidemic.
    — Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
  • What kind of medication does the center use if a patient misuses opioids?
    — Jessica Van Egeren, Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Deaths from drug overdoses involving fentanyl — a powerful opioid used to treat severe pain that can also be lethal, even in small doses — have been on the rise in the U.S. in recent years.
    — Julianne McShane, NBC News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The synthetic opioid is 50 times more powerful than heroin.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2023
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opioid

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  • Opioids bind to opioid receptors in the brain and block pain signals sent from the body.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The new rules are aimed at increasing access to methadone, which has been used to treat opioid addiction in the U.S. since the early 1970s.
    — Lev Facher, STAT, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Netflix's Painkiller tells the chilling story of the early opioid crisis in the United States.
    — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Most of that money goes to the state’s opioid trust fund, which now totals around $38 million, Boffetti said.
    — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Percocet is the brand name of a drug that mixes oxycodone, which is an opioid, and acetaminophen, which is the generic name for drugs such as Tylenol.
    — Jamiel Lynch, CNN, 20 Jan. 2023
  • At the height of the opioid epidemic, Tennessee had one of the highest rates of opioid prescriptions.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Dec. 2023
  • This is thanks in no small part to the notion that most opioid users today are White, even though, as Ramsey points out, that was also true of crack cocaine.
    — Zachary Siegel, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Child death and opioid overdose review boards are just two common examples from across the state.
    — Ashley Luthern, Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The latest lawsuit comes as the opioid epidemic continues to plague the country.
    — Theara Coleman, The Week, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The rules also carve out an exception for buprenorphine, a drug used to treat opioid addiction.
    — Robert Legare, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2023
  • For instance, people might ask whether the vending machines enable opioid abuse on-site.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The reason for writing the piece, Kevin noted, was his hope that sharing the story might help raise awareness about the dangers of opioid addiction.
    — Hayden Bird, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Walgreens also booked a $306-million pre-tax charge for opioid claims and some costs tied to cost cutting and an acquisition.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Deaths from opioid overdoses hit record levels in 2021.
    — John Yoon, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The money is to be spent on treatment and prevention of opioid addiction and overdoses.
    — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The three most common in muscle tissue were opioid pain reliever tramadol, the heart medicine flecainide and haloperidol.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Experts say that the drug’s strength has fueled an increase in opioid fatalities.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Now add a dose of societal problems, such as opioid addiction.
    — Jim Riccioli, Journal Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The money would be used for opioid addiction prevention and treatment.
    — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 6 May 2023
  • The addition of the Walgreens settlement brings the total to $1 billion brought into the state through opioid litigation.
    — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 10 June 2023
  • An open-source curriculum developed in Beaverton to educate tweens and teens about the ferocious risks of opioid abuse could soon be a model for schools around the country.
    — oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2023
  • We are used to seeing the Surgeon General of the United States take on tough public health challenges like cigarette smoking or opioid abuse.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2023
  • But data show that tens of thousands of Americans every year still die from opioid overdoses.
    — Nicole Leonard | Whyy, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Chronic pain patients who spoke with KHN pointed to his plight in calling for more access to opioid medications.
    — Sam Whitehead, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Growing debt, lawsuits over opioid prescriptions, and a slump in sales forced the pharmacy chain to declare bankruptcy.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Trone said that 20% of all opioid fatalities could be saved with similar training.
    — Breccan F. Thies, Washington Examiner, 13 Sep. 2023
  • About a decade ago, as authorities began cracking down on prescriptions of opioid painkillers linked to soaring deaths at the time, fentanyl emerged and rapidly spread across the country.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Experts say many opioid addictions start with prescription pills found at home.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2023
  • And because xylazine is not an opioid, the overdose-reversing drug naloxone, often known by the brand name Narcan, does not reverse its effects.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Buprenorphine and naloxone are used to treat opioid dependency.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 30 Jan. 2023

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