opioid crisis, policy. public healthCanadas latest drug policy, the Canadian Drugs and Substances Strategy (CDSS) with its emphasis on an evidence-based public health approach to substance misuse, has remained unidimensional in response to the current opioid crisis. Its coexistence with a ...
Methadone is the scientific answer to this problem, with potential tocut death rates by 50 percent or more. Buprenorphine, a more recently developed medication hassimilar outcomesbut has alsostruggled to gain tractionamong providers despite recent deregulation efforts. (Buprenorphine...
the last three of them running the Rampart Division. This case, he said, is not the exception but the rule when it comes to arrests for drugs and theft.
Theopioid crisissweeping the country is putting a growing financial and emotional strain on many communities. More than 4,000 people died from unintentional drug overdoses last year in Ohio alone. Deadliest drugs21 photos Many coroners in the state say the death toll will be higher this year....
The most recent data on fatalities from the opioid overdose crisis are for the year 2017, published in MMWR on January 4, 2019. They show that while overdose deaths from both prescription opioids and heroin remained stable during 2016-2017, there was a significant increase in overdose deaths du...
“Status is what researchers call an ‘ultimate’ rather than a ‘proximate’ drive: it’s a kind of mother-motivation, a deep evolutionary cause of many other downstream beliefs and behaviors that’s been favored by selection and is written into the design of our brains.” ...
The view that substance addiction is a brain disease, although widely accepted in the neuroscience community, has become subject to acerbic criticism in recent years. These criticisms state that the brain disease view is deterministic, fails to account f
thehigher the percentage of black womenin the delivery population, the higher its rates of maternal mortality. But racial disparities can only account for so much of the problem. Even if youlook only at white womenin the United States, the rates of mothers who die is greater than those in...
It remains to be seen whether a similar analysis and call for change will come on the heels of the opioid crisis. Significant efforts have also been directed toward providing compelling evidence for decision makers to highlight the positive (and often cost-saving) return on investment of public...
One explanation for the underlying tendencies toward addiction may have to do with the brain'sprefrontal cortex. Located at the frontmost part of the brain, the prefrontal cortex is key forself-regulation, long-term goal-setting, impulse control and the ability to predict consequences of behavior....