Opioids are powerful painkillers that act on the nervous system.
阿片类药物是作用于神经系统的一种强效止痛药。
The doctor prescribed
opioids to manage the patient's severe post-surgical pain.
医生开处了阿片类药物来控制患者术后剧烈疼痛。
Long-term use of
opioids can lead to physical dependence and addiction.
长期使用阿片类药物可能导致身体依赖和成瘾。
Morphine is an
opioid often used in palliative care for its effective analgesic properties.
吗啡是一种常用于姑息治疗中的阿片类药物，因其具有有效的镇痛特性。
The misuse of prescription
opioids has become a major public health concern.
处方阿片类药物的滥用已成为一个重大的公共卫生问题。
After taking the
opioid, the patient reported significant relief from his chronic back pain.
服用阿片类药物后，病人表示其慢性背痛显著减轻。
Heroin, an illegal
opioid, is synthesized from morphine and causes intense euphoria.
海洛因是一种非法的阿片类药物，由吗啡合成，可导致强烈的欣快感。
A combination of non-
opioid pain relievers and physical therapy can be an effective alternative to
opioids.
非阿片类止痛药与物理疗法相结合可以成为阿片类药物的有效替代方案。
The patient underwent detoxification to overcome her
opioid addiction.
该患者接受了戒毒治疗以克服阿片类药物成瘾。
New guidelines have been issued for reducing the over-prescription of
opioids to combat the
opioid epidemic.
为了应对阿片类药物泛滥，已发布了新的指南以减少阿片类药物的过度处方。
The opioid epidemic in the United States has claimed many victims, and a major pharmaceutical company was told Monday that it will be paying a hefty price for its involvement.
An Oklahoma judge determined that Johnson & Johnson was liable for fueling an opioid epidemic in the south central US state by deceptively marketing addictive painkillers and ordered the New Jersey-based drugmaker to pay $572.1 million.
Since 2000, some 6,000 Oklahomans have died from opioid overdoses, according to the state's lawyers.
Lawyers for Oklahoma argued that J&J— the first opioid maker to face trial — carried out a years-long marketing campaign that minimized the painkillers' addiction risks and promoted their benefits.
Still, the award was well below what some investors and analysts feared, in what had been a $17 billion lawsuit viewed as a bellwether for other litigation nationwide over the opioid crisis.
"Janssen (a subsidiary of J&J) did not cause the opioid crisis in Oklahoma, and neither the facts nor the law support this outcome," Michael Ullmann, J&J's general counsel, said in a statement.
The case brought by Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter was the first to go to trial out of thousands of lawsuits filed by state and local governments against opioid manufacturers and distributors.
Oklahoma argued that J&J's marketing practices helped fuel the opioid epidemic by flooding the market with painkillers.
The attorney general has said that between 2015 and 2018, 18 million opioid prescriptions were written in Oklahoma, a state with around 4 million people.
Hunter said J&J "embarked on a cynical, deceitful, multibillion-dollar brainwashing campaign to establish opioid analgesics as the magic drug.
But the judge said the figure he awarded covered only one year, saying Oklahoma did not offer enough evidence of the time and costs to address the opioid crisis beyond that.
The litigation has been closely watched by plaintiffs in about 2,000 opioid lawsuits pending before a federal judge in Ohio.
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says is a major contributor to fatal and nonfatal overdoses in the country.
Despite China's strong efforts to improve control of the opioid, the US recently used fentanyl-related issues to smear the country and indicted or arrested Chinese enterprises and citizens over the issue.
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