Sentence examples for strong narcotic from inspiring English sources

"Instead of addressing the hypoventilation," the Health Department reported, the patient was given Fentanyl, a strong narcotic.

D.E.A. officials said that many of the drugs dispensed at the facility made their way to the black market, including oxycodone, a strong narcotic that is also the active ingredient in OxyContin.

"D.E.A. is extremely concerned that many doctors are prescribing this strong narcotic as an initial treatment for many types of pain and that is a result of how it has been promoted," said Mr. Woodworth, the deputy director of the agency's office of diversion control.

When medical care and disability payments are combined, the cost of a workplace injury is nine times higher when a strong narcotic like OxyContin is used than when a narcotic is not used, according to a 2010 analysis by Accident Fund Holdings, an insurer that operates in 18 states.

I wanted him to prove to me he needed this strong narcotic.

But his father had just come out of thyroid surgery then and was woozy from a host of strong narcotics.

They not only end up taking pain drugs and strong narcotics, but they take a lot of anti-anxiety medications as well.

The decision by the F.D.A. comes at a time when the efficacy of strong narcotics like OxyContin for the treatment of long-term pain has come under increasing scrutiny.

Some state attorneys general and pain treatment experts had also urged the F.D.A. to block the release of generic versions of OxyContin, arguing that failing to do so would feed street demand for strong narcotics.

Strong narcotics, such as morphine, are stigmatised by connotations of addiction and their association with death [ 36], and therefore, patients may be reluctant to use them.

Stronger, narcotic painkillers are only prescribed if the desired effects from simple painkillers are not achieved.