Opioid
"Opioid" in a Sentence (12 examples)
About 77 Americans die each day from an opioid overdose.
Naloxone is a life-saving drug that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.
A major pharmaceutical company and three of the biggest drug distributors in the U.S. have reached a $260 million settlement with two counties in Ohio to avoid a trial over their role in the deadly opioid addiction crisis gripping America.
Researchers have also studied the possible impact of the opioid epidemic on labor force participation.
Opioid overdoses caused more than 42,000 deaths in 2016.
The people responsible for the opioid epidemic will never face any consequences.
Religion is the opioid of the masses.
The opioid crisis has continued to worsen while public health officials have been preoccupied with the pandemic.
While her mother was in a residential recovery program for opioid addiction, Daniela was temporarily living with her elderly grandparents.
Critics say the pill could be diverted to illicit use and could worsen the country's opioid crisis.
Mechoulam concluded that our bodies must produce their own cannabinoids — endogenous molecules that, like the native opioids and nicotinelike molecules our bodies also make, engage the cannabinoid receptors throughout the human body.
The number of young children in the US who have died from opioid overdoses has increased significantly, according to a new study on accidental poisonings of children 5 and younger.
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