Pharmacology
The pharmacology topic includes a variety of news, information, videos and feature articles about the science of drug action on biological systems.
Is your agency in compliance with requirements? How can you protect yourself and your staff from the fallout of drug diversion?
The program aims for nurses to work alongside police officers to assist individuals struggling with substance use disorders and mental health
Ensuring equitable treatment for all communities begins with understanding how unintentional racism can produce racist outcomes in EMS
The program will also limit the daily dosage based on their strength; restriction will apply to patients who are new to pain pills
Recent spikes in the Maryland heroin and opioid epidemic have triggered calls for substantial changes in education systems statewide
HHS, CDC commit opioid funding grant money to public health based models for combating the crisis
Overdose deaths rose to 1,631 in Tennessee in 2016, more than double what was seen statewide just five years ago
The lawsuit seeks to limit the availability of the drugs that often lead to addiction
Initiative aims to save lives, reduce illegal and prescription drug misuse, improve overdose and early interventions to treatment and recovery through education
Federal prosecutors said Joseph Comstock stole morphine and fentanyl for his personal use
A first responder shares his own addiction story and why nobody should fear reaching out or calling 911
The funds will be used to strengthen prevention efforts and better track opioid-related overdoses
“When you look at accidental deaths within the U.S. in the last year, opioid deaths have surpassed car accidents,” Dr. Mark Miedema said
Officials said the number of 911 calls for overdoses has continued to climb even as fewer of those turn out to be fatal
In Yakima County, heroin-related deaths appear to be on the rise; five of the 26 overdose deaths last year involved heroin
2003 AHA guidelines noted IOs provide a favorable alternative to traditional IV techniques for fluid and medication administration
A petition asked the FDA to ban opioid pills that would add up to a daily dose of more than 90 milligrams of morphine
Overdose-related ICU admissions in Pennsylvania nearly doubled between 2009 and 2015
A record 4,050 people died of drug overdoses in 2016, with fatalities driven in large part by the emergence of stronger drugs
Several agencies have published recommendations to protect frontline public safety providers from accidental occupational opioid exposures
Rates of medication-assisted treatment, considered the gold standard for opioid addiction, went up 12 percent
The overdose death rate rose to 3.7 per 100,000 teens in 2015, from 3.1 the previous year
Learn how four paramedic chiefs are collecting and analyzing data to fight the opioid overdose epidemic in their communities
EMS director Matthew Bivens said TXA is “lifesaving,” and has been “proven on battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan”
Medication mistakes are usually due to multiple causal factors but are considered preventable incidents
EMS providers who can look beyond ketamine’s perception as a street or veterinary drug will find it is uniquely positioned to treat sepsis
The Fayette County Health Department distributed 925 doses from September to April, when the money ran out from a grant they had received to purchase the drug
Over the last year, ACMT and AACT developed the document to satisfy responder requests for fact-based opioid response safety guidance
The president said that the nation’s addiction to opioids is “a serious problem, the likes of which we have never had”
The state alleges that Purdue Pharma has downplayed the drug’s risk of addiction, overstated its effectiveness and failed to report suspicious prescribers
The EMS providers were transporting a patient when the driver became ill and had to be given naloxone
The president did not announce any new policy, but vowed to work with health professionals and law enforcement on the crisis
A cross-agency collaboration in Lowell, Mass., uses an overdose data-driven approach to improve performance and save lives