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
• House Bill 2245, the Ashley Dunn Act, toughens penalties for dealers and traffickers of the synthetic opioid that has led to thousands of overdoses in recent years.
  — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2024
• The action plan included barring Synan, a nationally renowned figure in the fight against the opioid crisis, from participating in any activities that would take him from his normal duties.
  — The Enquirer, 18 Mar. 2024

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opioid

2 of 2 adjective

• 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
• Though rare, people can die from opioid withdrawal syndrome.
  — Lauren Peace, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024