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 ...
It is possible that some of the increase in maternal mortality is due tobetter record keeping. States have been working to improve how they keep track of maternal deaths, as well as other causes of death, and better reporting would be reflected as increases in prevalence. It’s hard to ima...
this particular article put a few things in perspective for me that I’d missed before. First of all was the number of pills sold: 76 BILLION pills over ten years between 2006-2016. A CVS pharmacy in Norton, VA is pictured that received 1.3 million opioid pills during that time (populati...
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....
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When challenged, she is not drawn into a moral discussion about selling drugs. She claims she never asks customers how they use what she sells. The UK National Crime and Agency (NCA) believes drugdealersare mixing the synthetic opioid with street drugs such as heroin. ...
LINDER: The two areas I would say this comes up most often is we usually see white patients get more inappropriate antibiotics than Black patients, and that’ll sound very reminiscent of the opioid epidemic — sort of this idea of our white patients just getting more care, even where it’...
“Sister Morphine” and “Dancing With Mr. D” off 1973’sGoat’s Head Soup(which appears twice onInside Out) — come across as particularly heavy in light of the current opioid crisis plaguing the United States, which Fowler argues is not as dire as it was back in the Stones’Exile...
That’s more than just inaccurate and unfair; it makes our country’s mental health worse in the long run by keepingstigmaagainst the mentally ill alive and well. Aboutone in fiveAmerican adults is dealing with a mental illness in any given year and about half th...
These increases align with reports of rates of mental health challenges climbing before the pandemic, which only made things worse for many people, Whitlock said. Also, the proximity to loved ones during lockdowns may have made parents more aware of self-harm, potentially contributing to more em...