Fighting Opioid and Painkiller Addiction
…More Recent By 2015 over a six-year period, more than 183,000 deaths from prescription opioids were reported in the United States. Today, millions of Americans are now addicted to opioids.”…
…More Recent By 2015 over a six-year period, more than 183,000 deaths from prescription opioids were reported in the United States. Today, millions of Americans are now addicted to opioids.”…
…the highest risk for most users, even if they eventually seek out illicit opioids or “street drugs.” In 2014, only 22.1% of non-medical users obtained opioids through a doctor, meaning…
…the continuing misuse of opioids under a doctor’s care and wonder what the doctors were thinking. Multiple times I have written on the deadliness of opioids. To market and promote…
Many things can be accomplished when you have a majority in Congress, Well. almost. For Democrats, Sinema is still growing up and trying to decide what she wants to be….
…of opioids such as oxycodone increased dramatically in the United States and Canada over the past two decades.1 From 1999 through 2015, more than 183,000 deaths from prescription opioids were…
…“status quo of aggressive prescribing of opioids and reaping enormous profits” according to Dr. Andrew Kolodny of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing. Opioids are used to interact with the receptors…
…deaths from prescription opioids were reported in the United States and millions of Americans are now addicted to opioids.” Signed by four researchers exploring the reasons why Opioid addiction and…
…people he supposedly represents? West Virginia is or was #1 for opioid deaths in the US. A few years back before opioids became a big deal, I was asked to…
…and 2021 saw the highest numbers of fatal opioid overdoses ever reported, with 69,061 and 80,926 fatalities, respectively (see graph below), and opioids are the main driver of drug overdose…
…Medicine. It was “widely invoked in support of the claim the use of Opioids does not cause addiction. No evidence was provided by the correspondents using the letter as a…