CDC: rates of opioid use disorder seen at time of delivery up
(HealthDay)—Opioid use disorder rates at delivery more than quadrupled nationally from 1999 to 2014, according...
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Majority in U.S. support medical pot, think it could fight opioid crisis
(HealthDay)—Americans strongly support medical marijuana, and a majority also believe that pot should be legal...
Former inmates at high risk for opioid overdose following prison release
A recent study in North Carolina found that in the first two weeks after being...
US opioid prescribing rates by congressional district
Congressional districts with the highest opioid prescribing rates are predominantly concentrated in the southeastern U.S.,...
In Medicaid patients, high opioid doses and concurrent sedative use are risk factors for fatal opioid overdose
Among Medicaid recipients taking prescription opioids, high opioid doses and concurrent treatment with benzodiazepine sedatives...
What We Still Don't Understand About the Opioid Epidemic & Women
The medical profession has a long history of disregarding women in research and treatment, from...
Little Kids Are Accidentally Taking an Opioid That's Meant to Treat Addiction
From 2007 to 2016, more than 11,000 children and adolescents in the U.S. were exposed...