November 8, 2019 Pat Anson By Pat Anson, PNN Editor A large new analysis of drug use by teenagers and young adults in the U.S. has found a surprisingly high level of prescription opioid use. In a survey of over 56,000 youths, researchers found that 21% of teens and 32% of young adults said they had…
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U.S. urges shared decisions with pain patients taking opioids Associated Press
CARLA K. JOHNSON, Associated Press October 10, 2019 Opioids Prescribing FILE – This Aug. 29, 2018, file photo shows an arrangement of prescription oxycodone pills in New York. U.S. health officials are again warning doctors against abandoning chronic pain patients by abruptly stopping their opioid prescriptions. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services instead…
America’s War on Pain Pills Is Killing Addicts and Leaving Patients in Agony
The government’s efforts to get between people and the drugs they want have not prevented drug use, but they have made it more dangerous. JACOB SULLUM | FROM THE APRIL 2018 ISSUE Craig, a middle-aged banking consultant who was on his school’s lacrosse team in college and played professionally for half a dozen years after…
America’s War on Pain Pills Is Killing Addicts and Leaving Patients in Agony
The government’s efforts to get between people and the drugs they want have not prevented drug use, but they have made it more dangerous. JACOB SULLUM | FROM THE APRIL 2018 ISSUE Craig, a middle-aged banking consultant who was on his school’s lacrosse team in college and played professionally for half a dozen years after…
wsvn.com Can’t Live Without Prescription Pain Pills
Patrick Fraser | Ambar Rodriguez July 22, 2019 TO VIEW VIDEO GO TO “LINK TO ORIGINAL VIDEO” LISTED BELOW. (WSVN) – It’s a terrible way to live. Horrible pain that never stops. Pain medications help, but imagine being told the pain pills that keep you going will be cut off. Thousands of Americans are now facing that,…
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