The following articles from the past few months offer a lot of information about the opioid crisis. Specifically: information about government action, fentanyl, studies about opioid effectiveness on pain, and the most effective forms of treatment.
“The amount of opioids prescribed in the US peaked in 2010 and then decreased each year through 2015. However, prescribing remains high and vary widely from county to county. Healthcare providers began using opioids in the late 1990s to treat chronic pain (not related to cancer), such as arthritis and back pain. As this continued, more opioid prescriptions were written, for more days per prescription, in higher doses. Taking opioids for longer periods of time or in higher doses increases the risk of addiction, overdose, and death.” – CDC Vital Signs July 2017
- Finally, proof: opioids are no better than other medications for some chronic pain
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/3/6/17082590/opioids-tylenol-chronic-pain-study - How to stop the deadliest drug overdose crisis in American history
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/8/1/15746780/opioid-epidemic-end - Fentanyl linked to thousands of urban overdose deaths
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/fentanyl-overdoses/?utm_term=.ea86185eac1f - Why Can’t Addicts Just Quit?
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/11/why-cant-addicts-just-quit/545552/ - No Family Is Safe From This Epidemic
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/11/an-epidemic-from-which-no-one-is-safe/546773/ - Opioid Policy Becomes Personal For One Health Official After Husband’s Death
https://www.npr.org/2017/12/29/574598532/opioid-policy-becomes-personal-for-one-health-official-after-husbands-death - Stanford researchers: The secret to overcoming the opioid crisis may lie partly in the mind
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2017/09/12/stanford-researchers-the-secret-to-overcoming-the-opioid-crisis-may-be-all-in-the-mind/?utm_term=.607c273eeb3a - There Is More Than One Opioid Crisis
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/there-is-more-than-one-opioid-crisis/?ex_cid=538twitter - Did Americans Turn to Opioids Out of Despair – or Just Because They Were There?
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/is-the-opioid-crisis-driven-by-supply-or-demand.html?utm_campaign=nym&utm_source=tw&utm_medium=s1 - Forced Rehab Isn’t the Solution
https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/qvwwkv/massachusetts-forced-rehab-law - Opioid crisis trims U.S. life expectancy, boosts hepatitis C: CDC
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-healthcare-cdc/opioid-crisis-trims-u-s-life-expectancy-boosts-hepatitis-c-cdc-idUSKBN1EF1TF - Medication-Assisted Treatment Improves Outcomes for Patients With Opioid Use Disorder
http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-sheets/2016/11/medication-assisted-treatment-improves-outcomes-for-patients-with-opioid-use-disorder?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sotu18 - Montgomery County files suit against opioid drug companies
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/montgomery-county-files-suit-against-opioid-drug-companies/2018/02/07/f86035d2-0c26-11e8-95a5-c396801049ef_story.html?utm_term=.7297d5664fee - Questions And Answers About Opioids And Chronic Pain
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/03/09/592305410/questions-and-answers-about-opioids-and-chronic-pain?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social - Why it’s not ‘enabling’ to make drug use safer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/03/13/why-its-not-enabling-to-make-drug-use-safer/?utm_term=.6032095cd92b - A lifesaving drug for overdoses doesn’t reduce opioid deaths? Be skeptical.
https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/3/13/17115558/naloxone-opioid-overdoses-deaths-theft-moral-hazard-study -
CNN Exclusive: The more opioids doctors prescribe, the more money they make
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/11/health/prescription-opioid-payments-eprise/index.html - How America’s prisons are fueling the opioid epidemic
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/13/17020002/prison-opioid-epidemic-medications-addiction
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Wow Rick ! Lots of good information !