The current opioid crisis is one that is well-documented, but recently studies have shown that the country is not just fighting opioid dependency on one front, but on four. In addition, different areas of the country are affected by different aspects of the crisis. The four main areas of the opioid crisis as a whole …
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They say that these days there is an app for everything. Programmers have now worked with a research organization in order to develop a betting game that can help predict the likelihood of someone who is undergoing opioid addiction therapy relapsing and using opioids once again. The App Helps to Evaluate How Likely a Patient …
The Governor of New York State, Andrew Cuomo, has announced that for the first time since 2009, the number of people who suffered an opioid related death per year has fallen. The number of people who died in 2017 in New York because of an opioid overdose was 2,170. The number of people who died …
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A company in California has come under criticism for its plan to use prison inmates with alcohol and drug related problems as ‘human guinea pigs’ for its unique opioid dependency recovery program. Following criticism from a number of parties, the program has now been halted. The novel scheme was launched by the Louisiana Department of …
Read more Some Doctors Are Objecting to Plan to Help Inmates Fight Opioid Addiction
When the ‘man on the street’ thinks about how people obtain illegal opioids, they probably think about shady dealers selling opioids that have been manufactured, Breaking Bad style, in illegal laboratories. It may then surprise the ‘man on the street’ that a large percentage of illegally sold opioids come from sources where opioids are manufactured …
There seems to be very little that can be said that’s positive about the current opioid crisis in the US, except that perhaps the country is finally getting to grips with it. One of the positives though about the hold opioids currently seem to have over the nation is that more research about pain is …
Read more How the Opioid Crisis is Bringing About More Pain Research
A new federal report has revealed that more people die from opioid related drug overdoses in the Northeast US than anywhere else in the country. Research is now being undertaken to help people understand why this is occurring. The report comes from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics …
Read more Why the Northeast US Has Been Hit Hardest by the Opioid Epidemic
Progress is being made in North Carolina’s fight against the opioid crisis, according to a new report jointly released by Duke University and the University of North Carolina. However, the report also makes certain that there is still a great deal of work that has to be done. In particular, more people experiencing problems with …