Academic Medicine Leads Efforts to Address the Opioid Epidemic – AAMC – April 30, 2019
AAMC President and CEO Darrell Kirch, MD, lauds the nation’s medical school and teaching hospitals for their multifaceted efforts to tackle pain management and opioid use disorder. Read More.
Former Twin Cities Dentist Settles Suit Alleging He Gave Opioids to Employee, Son – StarTribune – April 28, 2019
A onetime Maplewood dentist has agreed to a financial settlement in connection with allegations that he funneled hundreds of opioid painkiller doses through illegal prescriptions to an employee and his own son, among others. Read More.
Opioids in the Spotlight On National Prescription Drug Take Back Day – CBS Minnesota – April 26, 2019
As the U.S. continues battling the opioid crisis, public agencies all over America on Saturday will give people a chance to rid their homes of unneeded drugs that sit in their medicine cabinets. Read More.
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Prescribing Practices Opioid Prescriptions 2017
Hospitalization Rate for Opioid Use Disorder
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Four deaths and a more than a dozen overdoses in recent days are suspected to be linked to a “bad batch” of drugs that could be laced with the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl.
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Four deaths and a more than a dozen overdoses in recent days are suspected to be linked to a “bad batch” of drugs that could be laced with the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl.
Synthetic Drugs: Every Batch is a Mystery Download Text Transcript According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, synthetic drugs include any substance that aims to mimic the effects of illegal chemicals and may contain stimulant, depressant or hallucinogenic properties. Sold in convenience stor...
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Synthetic drugs, including fentanyl are now the most common drugs involved in overdose deaths in the United States. In 2017, fentanyl was involved in 60 percent of overdose deaths, compared to just 14 percent in 2010.
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