…shown to have medicinal qualities and, compared with substances like alcohol, tobacco, and opioids, it has relatively milder health risks. However, it’s not risk-free, a large body of research has…
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…2019 paper that examines differences in how newsrooms framed and how policymakers responded to the eras of increased crack cocaine use in the 1980s and opioids in more recent decades….
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…majority of opioids prescribed,” says Alexander, lead author of the paper. He adds, “A substantial proportion of patients who were using high volumes of opioids intersect with low-volume prescribers.” The…
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…effective in preventing fatal opioid overdoses.” The pharmaceutical industry: Big Pharma’s role in marketing opioids spurred physicians to prescribe more opioids, research shows. This, in turn, fueled the opioid epidemic…
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…by the use of benzodiazepines in combination with opioids (since 2014, the number of overdose deaths involving benzodiazepines but not any opioids has held steady). As opioids contribute increasingly to…
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…and synthetic opioids like fentanyl. “What we know is that medical cannabis helps with pain,” Cunningham continues. “And the prescription opioids were really around pain and pain management. And so…
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…used to treat both short-term and chronic pain. In 2015, the amount of opioids prescribed per capita was about three times as high as in 1999, according to data from…
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…of cocaine use have steadily climbed. Cocaine-related overdose deaths are on the rise, too, and opioids are largely to blame. The ubiquity of the highly potent synthetic opioid fentanyl has…
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…as high. The powerful painkillers have a high potential for abuse — across the literature, rates of misuse average between 21 and 29 percent. Moreover, prescription opioids can pave the…
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…and methadone patients by race and class. Methadone and buprenorphine are synthetic opioids and they act similarly by blocking the brain receptors that are activated by opioids such as heroin…
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