Tag: opioid addiction
President declares opioid crisis a ‘national emergency’
President Trump announced Thursday that America's opioid crisis will become a “national emergency.”
The declaration — which was revealed through a response to a reporter’s...
New US Surgeon General pledges to take on the opioid epidemic
Last week, the Senate confirmed Dr. Jerome Adams as the 20th U.S. Surgeon General. Adams — an anesthesiologist with a biochemistry, a biopsychology, and...
Helping a parent addicted to painkillers
New data reveals that of the more than 33,000 fatal overdoses linked to opioid painkillers in 2015, over 6,200 were Americans over 55 years...
Oral opioid addiction treatments may not be working, study reveals
A Spanish study found that no current oral opioid addiction treatments can claim to be fully effective at treating addiction.
The research, published in the...
Chicago mayor announces expansion of opioid addiction treatment
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has announced plans to increase efforts to overcome the opioid epidemic and increase access to addiction treatment.
The city will...
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...
A single-paragraph letter: an unlikely contributor to the opioid epidemic
Researchers say a one-paragraph letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1980 disproportionately had an effect on the opioid epidemic.
The paragraph,...
Addiction crisis committee aims to save lives with new laws
A committee of lawmakers has been created to combat the spiraling opioid crisis by devising regulations that could save lives.
A bipartisan group of politicians...
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...
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...
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