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Category: Opioid Epidemic

To Deregulate or Not? Addiction Experts Grapple with Who Can Prescribe Buprenorphine

Nearly all Americans can agree that the opioid epidemic is a public health crisis. Most can agree that medication-assisted treatment is a viable solution to help mitigate the opioid epidemic….

How a U.S. Town Solved Their Opioid Problem

A problem too great to solve, some say. Not for the people of Little Falls, Minn., who have been credited with solving their community’s plaguing opioid misuse. An in-depth article…

Trends and Trajectory of the Opioid Crisis

Deaths linked to synthetic opioids now outpace heroin deaths, which suggests that synthetic opiates such as fentanyl have contaminated other illegal drugs, as cited in a recent investigation published in…

Opioid Crisis Affecting African Americans at a Climbing Rate

In captivating coverage from NBC News, Jacob Soboroff reports that the opioid crisis is affecting African Americans at an increasing rate due to the influx of fentanyl to urban areas…

Opioid Addiction: 10 Straight-Up Facts

Data tells us that everyone knows someone who is misusing prescription painkillers or abusing heroin. The reach is wide. The stats are alarming. The effects are devastating. Here are 10…

Policy Recommends Coordinated Expansion of Care for Patients with Opioid Use Disorder

Few organizations are true movers and shakers. Groups that move the needle so far that the status quo is left in hindsight. In modern day, think Apple. Think Tesla. Think…

Patients Overcoming Opioid Use Disorder Share Their Stories of Recovery

Different types of treatment programs work for different types of people. You are unique and so is your recovery. New Season may be the miracle for which you’ve been waiting…

When Prescription Pain Meds Go from a Solution to a Problem

You may be misusing prescription pain medication if you take more than your health care provider’s prescribed, use the medication to get high, or use someone else’s opioids.

Teen Opioid Use: What Parents Must Know Now

It used to only be mangled cars and high school student-actors dramatizing the could-be, alcohol-induced, deadly collision to stress the importance of not drinking and driving. Now it’s also staged…

Opioid Overdose Detection? There’s (Almost) an App for That

While the opioid antidote naloxone, or Narcan, has saved many lives from a sudden overdose, the problem is that people who overdose cannot call for help. Researchers from the University…