CDC – Center for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics Recent improvements in timeliness and data quality over the last year have prompted a re-evaluation of the length of time that data quality requirements have had to be met for states to be included in “Figure 2. 12 Month-ending Provisional Number of Drug…
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Los Angeles Times: With opioid abuse surging, expert panel recommends drug screening for all U.S. adults
Soaring rates of painkiller abuse are one factor that prompted an expert panel to recommend that primary care doctors screen all their adult patients for illicit drug use. (David Maialetti / Philadelphia Inquirer) By MELISSA HEALY STAFF WRITER AUG. 13, 2019, 4:22 PM It’s time for doctors to start asking every patient, every time: Have you…
Some chronic pain sufferers say they are unintentional victims of the crackdown on opioids
Posted: 11:03 AM, Oct 24, 2018 Updated: 8:46 AM, Oct 25, 2018. By: Matthew McClellan INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana — As President Donald Trump gets ready to sign new opioid legislation into law, people who suffer from chronic pain worry the bill includes provisions that could hurt them. These people believe they represent the other side of the epidemic. Johnna Magers of…
New details about Michigan’s opioid crisis: Billions of pills and aggressive suppliers.
Updated: 10:56 AM Today: 9:00 AM As the U.S. opioid crisis gained steam a decade ago, Michigan was flooded by pain pills by suppliers and distributors who seemed more focused on sales than the drugs’ dangers, according to recently released documents. That includes a top account manager who jokingly compared opioids to Doritos in their…
Are Prescribed Opioids the Culprits or the Scapegoats?
10th August, 2019 By Lynn Webster, M.D. This article, in a slightly edited form, first appeared on Pain News Network on August 10, 2019. The Washington Post has recently published a series of stories about the volume of opioids distributed over the past several years. Over 76 billion pills have been distributed throughout the U.S. from 2002 through 2012.…
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