The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently issued a guidance warning about the dangers of opioid-induced respiratory depression (“OIRD”) and required the following actions be taken: Timely ...

Muse Treatment Alcohol & Drug Rehab Los Angeles has released a new educational resource examining the clinical risks and mechanisms of respiratory depression caused by opioid use. The article, titled ...

This head-to-head pharmacodynamic study in healthy volunteers examined the ability of both OPVEE and intranasal naloxone to reverse opioid-induced respiratory depression, which is the shallow and slow ...