The US epidemic of drug overdose deaths in recent years has corresponded with a dramatic increase in use of donor organs from this group, a study has shown. Outcomes in recipients of such organs are not inferior to those in patients who received organs donated after trauma or medical death, ...
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When Did the Opioid Epidemic Start in Los Angeles? Initially, when prescription opioids were developed and marketed to doctors as an effective pain killer, they were overly prescribed to patients in Los Angeles and other cities throughout the United States. By the time doctors realized opioids wer...
opioid epidemicparityprescription drug misuseThe medicalization of the current opioid epidemic in the era of health care reform and parity, and its possible dismantling, poses many challenges. Between 2002 and 2013, drug overdose rates quadrupled. Parallel to an increase in prescription opioid overdose...
But the United States stands out for the sheer amount of opioids like Vicodin and Oxycontin it consumes, fueling a deadly drug epidemic. With just 4 percent of the world's population, the US accounts for about27 percentof the world's drug overdose deaths. ...
But gains in life expectancy due to advances against heart disease and cancer have been flattening, Benjamin said, while these other causes of death have been increasing. "People were predicting this would be because of the obesity epidemic," Benjamin said of the downward trend inlifeexpectancy....
opioid epidemic A public health crisis in the United States and Canada involving a sharp increase in the use of, addiction to, and overdoses from opioid drugs, especially since 2015 (although the trend is traced to the late 1990s). Opioids, typically used as prescription painkillers, include ...
Psychiatrists left to pick up the pieces of the opioid epidemic 6:29 AM, Nov 23, 2019 Opioid Crisis Police seize enough carfentanil in raid to kill 1 million people Drew Scofield 2:19 AM, Nov 17, 2019 Akron Canton News Canton officials: Fake pills leading to fatal overdoses ...
Many US communities are facing an epidemic of opioid and heroin abuse that is straining resources from police, to jails, to emergency medical personnel and treatment centers.
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