Tag: opioid crisis
How researchers want to end the opioid crisis
A new study maps out a comprehensive response to the opioid crisis, and the researchers believe it can eventually end one of the nation’s...
President’s commission to combat the opioid crisis delays report again
The Trump Administration created a special commission to combat the country’s drug addiction and opioid crisis, but the commission has missed the deadline to...
How do recreational opioid users perceive supervised injection sites?
A new study shows that most people who use opioids recreationally in America would actually be willing to utilize supervised injection facilities (SIFs). SIFs are...
Opioid prescriptions three times higher in 2015 than in 1999, CDC...
Although opioid prescriptions declined year to year from 2010 to 2015 nationwide, their accessibility either continued steady or increased in more than half of...
New health care draft boosts opioid crisis funding, still slashes Medicaid...
After more than 72 experts — spanning from former White House health officials to respected doctors — showed their opposition to the Senate's health care...
Women at risk as opioid use hospital visit numbers surge
The number of women hospitalized due to opioid use — including painkillers and heroin — has skyrocketed in the last ten years. A new report by the...
New opiate crisis intervention court launched to save lives
A trailblazing scheme has been launched to give urgent treatment and recovery aid to opiate users before they are put through court prosecution. The first-of-its-kind...
New UN report: the US has the highest drug death rate...
The U.S. has the highest number of deaths that are related to drugs in the world, according to the 2017 United Nations Office on...
Opioid manufacturers sued for fraud by Missouri and Ohio
Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley filed a suit against Endo Health Solutions, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, and Purdue Pharma in the Circuit Court of St. Louis....
What happens when surgeons limit postoperative opioid prescriptions?
What would happen if surgeons limited the number of opioid prescriptions written to manage postoperative pain among patients that had common surgeries? According to...
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