{"id":100340,"date":"2019-01-09T06:10:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T06:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/tobacco-use-linked-with-higher-use-of-opioids-and-sedatives\/"},"modified":"2019-01-09T06:10:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T06:10:28","slug":"tobacco-use-linked-with-higher-use-of-opioids-and-sedatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/tobacco-use-linked-with-higher-use-of-opioids-and-sedatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Tobacco use linked with higher use of opioids and sedatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Tobacco is a known risk factor for the misuse of prescription opioids. In addition, concurrent use of opioids and sedative-hypnotics is a risk factor for opioid overdose or addiction. In an <em>American Journal on Addictions<\/em> study, tobacco users were more likely to receive prescriptions for opioid analgesics with muscle relaxants and\/or benzodiazepines than people who did not use tobacco.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, which come from an annual survey of visits to office-based physicians in outpatient settings in the United States, suggest that appropriate caution should be exercised while co-prescribing opioid analgesics with muscle relaxants and\/or benzodiazepines among tobacco users to prevent prescription drug addiction.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">###<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Media Contact<\/strong><br \/>Penny Smith<br \/>newsroom@wiley.com<br \/>http:\/\/dx.<wbr>doi.<wbr>org\/<wbr>10.<wbr>1111\/<wbr>ajad.<wbr>12830 <i class=\"fa fa-sign-out\"><\/i><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tobacco is a known risk factor for the misuse of prescription opioids. In addition, concurrent use of opioids and sedative-hypnotics is a risk factor for opioid overdose or addiction. In an American Journal on Addictions study, tobacco users were more likely to receive prescriptions for opioid analgesics with muscle relaxants and\/or benzodiazepines than people who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_review":[],"enable_review":"","type":"","name":"","summary":"","brand":"","sku":"","good":[],"bad":[],"score_override":"","override_value":"","rating":[],"price":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[339,353,293,334,454],"class_list":["post-100340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-addiction","tag-drugs","tag-medicine-health","tag-public-health","tag-smoking-tobacco"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}