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Here are several new links to important articles about the opioid crisis. Topics include- treatment that works, new data from 2017, and the unique way that the opioid crisis affects women.
- It’s Overdose Awareness Day — and overdoses are killing more Americans than ever before
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/8/31/17805226/opioid-epidemic-death-international-overdose-awareness-day - Music’s Fentanyl Crisis: Inside the Drug That Killed Prince and Tom Petty
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/musics-fentanyl-crisis-inside-the-drug-that-killed-prince-and-tom-petty-666019 - The CDC director’s deeply personal reason for fighting opioids: His son nearly died of an overdose
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/07/17/the-cdc-directors-deeply-personal-reason-for-fighting-opioids-his-son-nearly-died-of-an-overdose/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.79fc24c91c19 - A Restaurant Takes On the Opioid Crisis, One Worker at a Time
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/dining/addiction-recovery-restaurant-dv8-kitchen-kentucky.html - As Opioid Crisis Rages, Some Trade ‘Tough Love’ For Empathy
https://khn.org/news/as-opioid-crisis-rages-some-trade-tough-love-for-empathy/ - A quest for addiction treatment that works, and the data to prove it
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/04/03/quest-for-addiction-treatment-that-works-and-data-prove/HtLdhW9hOAgITGMRhs1ERM/story.html - US drug overdose deaths rose 7% in 2017 and doubled over a decade, CDC reports
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/16/health/us-overdose-death-report-cdc/index.html - On front lines of opioid crisis, recovery houses slowly accepting contested treatment approach
https://whyy.org/segments/on-front-lines-of-opioid-crisis-some-drug-recovery-houses-adapt-to-claims-theyre-making-things-worse - How Heroin Came for Middle-Class Moms
https://www.marieclaire.com/health-fitness/a19685213/heroin-addicts-female-opioid-epidemic - This E.R. Treats Opioid Addiction on Demand. That’s Very Rare.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/health/opioid-addiction-treatment.html - How the Smallest State is Defeating America’s Biggest Addiction Crisis
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/25/rhode-island-opioids-inmates-219594?cid=apn - States Show the Way on the Opioid Epidemic
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/opinion/opioid-epidemic-states.html - Serenity Prayer inspired me to spare other families the pain that opioids caused mine
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/08/29/three-steps-fight-against-opioid-crisis-serenity-prayer-column/1123651002 - It’s time to measure addiction recovery rates, not just addiction rates
https://www.statnews.com/2018/08/30/measure-addiction-recovery-rates