Opioid Prescriptions Falling But Remain Too High, CDC Says
7 years, 8 months ago

Opioid Prescriptions Falling But Remain Too High, CDC Says

NPR  

Opioid Prescriptions Falling But Remain Too High, CDC Says Enlarge this image toggle caption Donald Gruener/iStockphoto/Getty Images Donald Gruener/iStockphoto/Getty Images The U.S. is in the midst of an opioid crisis. A new report out Thursday offers a bit of hope: Doctors are prescribing opioids less often, and the average dose they're giving patients has dropped, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, the number of patients getting opioids is still too high, and doctors are giving their patients prescriptions that last longer, according to the report in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Here's the good news: The annual prescribing rate by doctors dropped 13 percent, from 81 prescriptions per 100 people to 71 prescriptions per 100 people, according to the report.

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US overdoses have fallen sharply in recent months, a hopeful shift in trends
6 months, 1 week ago

US overdoses have fallen sharply in recent months, a hopeful shift in trends

CNN  

CNN — Federal data shows that overdose deaths in the United States are the lowest they’ve been in three years, and a new analysis suggests that some downward trends indicate “unprecedented” progress in the fight against the drug epidemic. “I think also it’s important to note that there are still more people dying from overdose than before the pandemic, and …

Opinion: Surgeons give patients too many opioids. A few simple steps could curb excess prescribing
9 months, 1 week ago

Opinion: Surgeons give patients too many opioids. A few simple steps could curb excess prescribing

LA Times  

America’s opioid epidemic is as bad as it has ever been. Some efforts to curb opioid prescribing have shown promise, including prescription drug monitoring programs, promotion of alternative analgesics, provider education and informing prescribing physicians when their patients die from opioid overdoses. Conventional strategies for curbing excessive opioid prescribing assume that surgeons are rational actors who, whenever they are informed …

Drug overdose deaths in the US decreased in 2023, for the first time in five years
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Drug overdose deaths in the US decreased in 2023, for the first time in five years

CNN  

CNN — After a steep rise during the Covid-19 pandemic, preliminary data shows that drug overdose deaths in the United States ticked down in 2023 for the first time in five years. “This progress over the last 12 months should make us want to reinvigorate our efforts knowing that our strategies are making a difference,” CDC Chief Medical Officer Dr. …

Prescription opioid shipments declined sharply even as fatal overdoses increased, new data shows
1 year, 6 months ago

Prescription opioid shipments declined sharply even as fatal overdoses increased, new data shows

Associated Press  

The number of prescription opioid pills shipped in the U.S. in the second half of the 2010s decreased sharply even as a nationwide overdose crisis continued to deepen, according to data released Tuesday. “We are still at an epidemic proportion of pills,” Peter Mougey, a lawyer representing governments that are suing drugmakers, distribution companies and pharmacies, said in an online …

Only 1 in 5 people with opioid addiction get the medications to treat it, study finds
1 year, 7 months ago

Only 1 in 5 people with opioid addiction get the medications to treat it, study finds

NPR  

Only 1 in 5 people with opioid addiction get the medications to treat it, study finds Enlarge this image toggle caption Ted S. Warren/AP Ted S. Warren/AP Imagine if during a deadly public health crisis, 80% of Americans weren't able to get safe, effective medications proven to help people recover. "Failing to use safe and lifesaving medications is devastating for …

Chronic pain patients struggle to get opioid prescriptions filled, even as CDC eases guidelines
2 years ago

Chronic pain patients struggle to get opioid prescriptions filled, even as CDC eases guidelines

CNN  

KHN — Jessica Layman estimates she has called more than 150 doctors in the past few years in her search for someone to prescribe opioids for her chronic pain. The first CDC guidelines “put everybody on notice,” said Dr. Bobby Mukkamala, chair of the American Medical Association’s Substance Use and Pain Care Task Force. Taking into account the perspective of …

Prescriptions for opioids ‘fall by almost half-a-million over last four years’
2 years ago

Prescriptions for opioids ‘fall by almost half-a-million over last four years’

The Independent  

GPs and pharmacists have helped slash prescriptions for potentially addictive opioid drugs by 450,000 in under four years, the latest data suggests. But the charity Versus Arthritis said the medicines could be very helpful for some people with arthritis and “in the UK, opioid addiction is fortunately rare among people with chronic pain”. We know that patients who require prescriptions …

FDA advisers vote in favor of making opioid overdose antidote available over the counter
2 years, 1 month ago

FDA advisers vote in favor of making opioid overdose antidote available over the counter

CNN  

CNN — If the US Food and Drug Administration gives the go-ahead, a nasal spray version of the opioid overdose antidote Narcan may soon be sold in vending machines, big box stores, grocery stores and gas stations across the country. “I’ve lost patients over the years and have watched as many families have been devastated by this rising, worsening and …

Drug overdose deaths fell in 2023, 1st decrease in 5 years: CDC
2 years, 2 months ago

Drug overdose deaths fell in 2023, 1st decrease in 5 years: CDC

ABC News  

Oxycodone pain pills prescribed for a patient with chronic pain in Norwich, Connecticut, March 23, 2016. Communities nationwide are struggling with the unprecedented opioid pain pill and heroin addiction epidemic. Drug overdose deaths fell in 2023, marking the first decrease in five years, new provisional federal data published Wednesday showed. This is a 3% decrease from the estimated 111,029 overdose …

Op-Ed: Finally, some promising news on opioids for patients in severe pain
2 years, 3 months ago

Op-Ed: Finally, some promising news on opioids for patients in severe pain

LA Times  

The U.S. remains in the midst of an ever-worsening drug overdose crisis. Meanwhile, physicians have had to balance the risk of criminal prosecution for prescribing opioids against their responsibility to treat patients’ pain. While some doctors were financially incentivized to overprescribe opioids, others caught scrutiny simply for providing relief to patients in debilitating pain. Tragically, recent studies found that chronic …

US agency softens opioid prescribing guidelines for doctors
2 years, 4 months ago

US agency softens opioid prescribing guidelines for doctors

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — The nation’s top public health agency on Thursday softened its guidelines for U.S. doctors prescribing oxycodone and other opioid painkillers. Opioids painkillers can be addictive — even when used under doctors’ orders — and were identified as a big reason for a rise in U.S. drug overdoses that began more than two decades ago. Some modifications were …

CDC updates opioid prescribing guidelines with new recommendations on tapering or continuing prescriptions
2 years, 4 months ago

CDC updates opioid prescribing guidelines with new recommendations on tapering or continuing prescriptions

CNN  

CNN — For the first time since 2016, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its guidelines for clinicians and patients on the use of prescription opioids to treat short-term and long-term pain. Advice for doctors and patients The guidelines recommend that when starting opioid therapy for any pain patient – acute, subacute or chronic – “clinicians …

CDC softens opioid prescribing guidelines for doctors
2 years, 4 months ago

CDC softens opioid prescribing guidelines for doctors

LA Times  

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised its guidelines for U.S. doctors prescribing oxycodone, above, and other opioid painkillers. The nation’s top public health agency on Thursday softened its guidelines for U.S. doctors prescribing oxycodone and other opioid painkillers. Opioid painkillers can be addictive — even when used under doctors’ orders — and were identified as a big reason …

America's drug crisis laid bare: CDC maps shows fatal overdoses have risen in all but EIGHT states
2 years, 5 months ago

America's drug crisis laid bare: CDC maps shows fatal overdoses have risen in all but EIGHT states

Daily Mail  

Fatal drug overdoses have risen in all but eight US states in the past year, according to official data that lays bare America's drug crisis. Alaska has seen by far the biggest percentage increase in drug overdose deaths between April 2021 and April 2022, rising by 44 per cent. The total count looks like it is coming down, but the …

Lessons from America’s mass popping of opioids
2 years, 8 months ago

Lessons from America’s mass popping of opioids

Live Mint  

The deadliest drug epidemic in US history did not involve peddlers, gangsters or smugglers, but painkillers. Between 2006 and 2014, a single county in West Virginia was supplied with over 127 million prescription opioid pills—142 pills a year for every person—that fed an opioid-addiction crisis that is still playing out. On Monday, a federal judge dismissed charges against America’s three …

Experts concerned about last year's sudden increase in opioid use
2 years, 9 months ago

Experts concerned about last year's sudden increase in opioid use

NL Times  

Last year, use of the heavy painkiller oxycodone increased sharply after years of decline. Loneliness from the coronavirus pandemic could also play a role in the sustained use of the painkillers, since they can also make people experiencing trauma feel better temporarily, said Kees Kramers, internist-clinical pharmacologist at Radboudumc and professor of Medicine Safety. The Appropriate Use of Opioids task …

CDC proposes softer guidance on opioid prescriptions
3 years, 1 month ago

CDC proposes softer guidance on opioid prescriptions

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — The nation’s top public health agency on Thursday proposed changing — and in some instances, softening — guidelines for U.S. doctors prescribing oxycodone and other opioid painkillers. But it also caused some doctors to become too quick to cut off patients taking prescription painkillers and too strict in keeping the drugs from patients who might benefit, CDC …

Drug overdose deaths hit record high in US as synthetic opioids and pandemic wreak havoc
3 years, 4 months ago

Drug overdose deaths hit record high in US as synthetic opioids and pandemic wreak havoc

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Drug overdose deaths in …

Apodaca: Orange County has not been spared from the opioid crisis
3 years, 7 months ago

Apodaca: Orange County has not been spared from the opioid crisis

LA Times  

OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy. Though the legitimate, responsible use of opioids certainly has its place in medicine, the rampant misuse of these potent, addictive drugs lurked in the shadows for far too long, hiding under the mantle of respectability and the lure of “pain management.” It scaled up into a full-blown epidemic before most of …

Doctors And Dentists Still Flooding U.S. With Opioid Prescriptions
4 years, 8 months ago

Doctors And Dentists Still Flooding U.S. With Opioid Prescriptions

NPR  

Doctors And Dentists Still Flooding U.S. With Opioid Prescriptions Enlarge this image toggle caption Tracy Lee for NPR Tracy Lee for NPR Despite widespread devastation caused by America's opioid epidemic, an investigation by NPR found that doctors and other health care providers still prescribe highly addictive pain medications at rates widely considered unsafe. Listen · 6:56 6:56 Medical Treatments NPR …

US opioid epidemic by numbers
5 years, 5 months ago

US opioid epidemic by numbers

Al Jazeera  

From the number of deaths linked to overdoses to the number of lawsuits, a look at the scale of the US opioid crisis. Opioid deaths in the United States have soared over the last 20 years, driving a wave of litigation against drugmakers and distributors. Numbers relating to opioid use, illnesses and deaths are based on information from the US …

US opioid epidemic by numbers
5 years, 5 months ago

US opioid epidemic by numbers

Al Jazeera  

From the number of deaths linked to overdoses to the number of lawsuits, a look at the scale of the US opioid crisis. Opioid deaths in the United States have soared over the last 20 years, driving a wave of litigation against drugmakers and distributors. Numbers relating to opioid use, illnesses and deaths are based on information from the US …

How the prescriptions doctors wrote may have helped fuel the U.S. opioid crisis
5 years, 6 months ago

How the prescriptions doctors wrote may have helped fuel the U.S. opioid crisis

LA Times  

More than 75% of patients in the U.S. and Canada filled a prescription for opioids following one of four common surgeries, compared with 11% of Swedes, a new study reports. More than 75% of patients in the U.S. and Canada filled a prescription for opioids following one of four common surgeries, compared with 11% of Swedes, researchers reported Wednesday in …

Opioid painkiller prescriptions fall slightly, following awareness of the risks
5 years, 6 months ago

Opioid painkiller prescriptions fall slightly, following awareness of the risks

Dutch News  

There appears to be a slowdown in the number of prescriptions being given for heavy opioid painkillers, the Volkskrant reported on Monday. The number of prescriptions fell by a ‘couple of percentage points’ in the first seven months of this year, after remaining stable in 2018, the paper said. Last week, Leiden University researchers said the number of people ending …

Opioid painkiller prescriptions fall slightly, following awareness of the risks
5 years, 6 months ago

Opioid painkiller prescriptions fall slightly, following awareness of the risks

Dutch News  

There appears to be a slowdown in the number of prescriptions being given for heavy opioid painkillers, the Volkskrant reported on Monday. The number of prescriptions fell by a ‘couple of percentage points’ in the first seven months of this year, after remaining stable in 2018, the paper said. Last week, Leiden University researchers said the number of people ending …

Dutch deaths due to opioid painkillers rise 50% in four years
5 years, 7 months ago

Dutch deaths due to opioid painkillers rise 50% in four years

Dutch News  

The number of people landing in hospital after using heavy painkillers soared by almost 50% within four years and more people are dying of accidental overdoses in the Netherlands, according to Leiden University researchers. The figures, published on academic website JAMA Network Open, cover the period 2013 to 2017 and show that the number of people prescribed opioid painkillers rose …

Dutch deaths due to opioid painkillers rise 50% in four years
5 years, 7 months ago

Dutch deaths due to opioid painkillers rise 50% in four years

Dutch News  

The number of people landing in hospital after using heavy painkillers soared by almost 50% within four years and more people are dying of accidental overdoses in the Netherlands, according to Leiden University researchers. The figures, published on academic website JAMA Network Open, cover the period 2013 to 2017 and show that the number of people prescribed opioid painkillers rose …

Boom in overdose-reversing drug is tied to fewer drug deaths
5 years, 7 months ago

Boom in overdose-reversing drug is tied to fewer drug deaths

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Prescriptions of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone are soaring, and experts say that could be a reason overdose deaths have stopped rising for the first time in nearly three decades. The number of naloxone prescriptions dispensed by U.S. retail pharmacies doubled from 2017 to last year, rising from 271,000 to 557,000, health officials reported Tuesday. “One could only …

As the nation’s opioid crisis grew, the pills got stronger
5 years, 8 months ago

As the nation’s opioid crisis grew, the pills got stronger

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — In 2012, as the death toll from the nation’s opioid crisis mounted, drug companies shipped out enough of the powerful and addictive painkillers for every man, woman and child in the U.S. to have nearly a 20-day supply. “We know that the higher the dose of prescribed opioids, and the longer patients are on them, even for a …

Q&A: Newly public data maps opioid crisis across US
5 years, 8 months ago

Q&A: Newly public data maps opioid crisis across US

Associated Press  

The release of a massive trove of data from lawsuits over the nation’s opioid crisis provides the most detailed accounting to date of the role played by the major pharmaceutical companies and distributors. But the data gives a stunning portrait of how the nation’s deadly public health crisis unfolded year by year, with manufacturers, distributors and pharmacies turning a firehose …

Data show many companies contributed to US opioid crisis
5 years, 8 months ago

Data show many companies contributed to US opioid crisis

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The maker of OxyContin has been cast as the chief villain in the nation’s opioid crisis. He also noted that the data shows that the places that received the most drugs per capita are the ones with the most overdoses per capita: “It really looks like wherever you spread the most gas, you get the most fires.” At …

Incarceration, falling incomes may play a role in the US opioid epidemic, study says
5 years, 8 months ago

Incarceration, falling incomes may play a role in the US opioid epidemic, study says

CNN  

CNN — Unraveling the factors fueling America’s opioid epidemic remains complicated. In counties across the United States, when incarceration rates rise and household incomes fall, drug-related deaths increase, according to a study published Wednesday in the medical journal Lancet Public Health. “So imprisoning people – giving them negative consequences to get them to stop using drugs – is not going …

Global opioid users rise amid US drug crisis, UN report says
5 years, 9 months ago

Global opioid users rise amid US drug crisis, UN report says

CNN  

CNN — Global use of deadly opioid drugs has risen significantly, a new United Nations report said Wednesday, amid a growing synthetic drug crisis in the United States. The report highlights an “ongoing crisis” in the United States and Canada around the use of synthetic opioid drugs, which led to more than 51,000 overdoses in 2017 alone. Video Ad Feedback …

Opioid use, drug-related disorders on the rise: UN report
5 years, 9 months ago

Opioid use, drug-related disorders on the rise: UN report

Al Jazeera  

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says 30 percent more people used drugs in 2017 than in 2009. Synthetic opioid use is booming, the United Nations said on Wednesday, in a worldwide drug report that shows rising deaths in the United States from overdoses and a “crisis” of tramadol use emerging in parts of Africa. Increased drug use …

Trump touts progress in combating the opioid crisis but skeptics remain
5 years, 11 months ago

Trump touts progress in combating the opioid crisis but skeptics remain

CNN  

Washington CNN — Build the wall. As part of ongoing efforts outside the West Wing, the first lady and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy have continued public awareness efforts at the White House related to the opioid crisis -- with the first lady making the opioids issue a pillar of her “Be Best” initiative and ONDCP …

More states say doctors must offer overdose reversal drug along with opioids
6 years, 1 month ago

More states say doctors must offer overdose reversal drug along with opioids

Salon  

In a growing number of states, patients who get opioids for serious pain may leave their doctors’ offices with a second prescription — for naloxone, a drug that can save their lives if they overdose on the powerful painkillers. New state laws and regulations in California, Virginia, Arizona, Ohio, Washington, Vermont and Rhode Island require physicians to “co-prescribe” or at …

Opioid epidemic: Eastern United States most affected
6 years, 1 month ago

Opioid epidemic: Eastern United States most affected

CNN  

CNN — While there’s early evidence that the explosive rate of opioid deaths has started to slow, opioids killed more than 49,000 people in the United States in 2017, according to preliminary data. In a study of opioid deaths from 1999 to 2016, “we found that, in general, opioid mortality is skyrocketing,” said Mathew Kiang, a postdoctoral research fellow at …

Opioid epidemic spilling over onto roads, study says
6 years, 1 month ago

Opioid epidemic spilling over onto roads, study says

CNN  

CNN — Patients who are prescribed opioids and the clinicians who prescribe themhave more to be concerned about than steadily rising rates of opioid overdoses, according to a new study. As the United States struggles with an opioid epidemic, these findings could affect health care providers’ decision-making processes, the authors say. Study author Dr. Guohua Li, a professor of epidemiology …

Even in best-case scenario, opioid overdose deaths will keep rising until 2022
6 years, 1 month ago

Even in best-case scenario, opioid overdose deaths will keep rising until 2022

LA Times  

A firefighter treats an opioid overdose victim in Rockford, Ill. A new study projects that if present trends continue, opioid overdose deaths in the U.S. will rise sharply in coming years. If the supply of prescription painkillers stops declining and there are other setbacks, researchers predict that yearly opioid overdose deaths could rise as high as 200,000 per year by …

Op-Ed: Want to reduce opioid use? Nudge the doctors who prescribe them
6 years, 2 months ago

Op-Ed: Want to reduce opioid use? Nudge the doctors who prescribe them

LA Times  

An Orange County doctor was arrested by federal authorities in December on suspicion of illegally prescribing narcotics, “flooding Southern California with huge quantities of opioids,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. For the record: This Op-Ed article wrongly identifies the affiliation of the researchers who found that doctors prescribe fewer opioids if they are notified of patient deaths from overdose. …

‘Opioid overdose epidemic continues to worsen and evolve,’ CDC says
6 years, 3 months ago

‘Opioid overdose epidemic continues to worsen and evolve,’ CDC says

CNN  

CNN — Illegally manufactured fentanyl was the driving force behind a 45.2% increase in deaths involving synthetic opioids from 2016 to 2017, according to a new report published Friday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “The opioid overdose epidemic continues to worsen and evolve because of the continuing increase in deaths involving synthetic opioids,” the authors wrote …

OPIOIDS IN AMERICA: BY THE NUMBERS
6 years, 4 months ago

OPIOIDS IN AMERICA: BY THE NUMBERS

Daily Mail  

Opioid prescriptions are going down across the US, but overdoses are not. Last year, the rate of opioid overdose deaths hit a record high, with around 200 Americans dying every day, according to new figures, published by the DEA in July. An in-depth analysis of 2016 US drug overdose data shows that America's overdose epidemic is spreading geographically and increasing …

Opioids in America: Prescription rates have fallen in the past decade but remain high in many states
6 years, 5 months ago

Opioids in America: Prescription rates have fallen in the past decade but remain high in many states

Daily Mail  

Prescription of legal opioids in the U.S. has fallen in the past decade, but the rate remains higher than it was in 2000, with doctors in Tennessee last year doling out more than any other state, according to a new analysis of government data. And the nationwide average has decreased since 2011, when American doctors prescribed 33.9 kilograms per 100,000 …

As opioid death toll worsens, California doctors will soon be required to perform database checks
6 years, 6 months ago

As opioid death toll worsens, California doctors will soon be required to perform database checks

LA Times  

By the time the 59-year-old woman overdosed in the late summer of 2013, she’d been given 75 prescriptions by three primary care doctors, a psychiatrist and a pain specialist in one year. “California created the first system to track prescriptions of the strongest painkillers, but our state fell behind as the opioid crisis grew,” said state Sen. Ricardo Lara, who …

Fentanyl drove drug overdose deaths to a record high in 2017 — about 200 a day — CDC estimates
6 years, 7 months ago

Fentanyl drove drug overdose deaths to a record high in 2017 — about 200 a day — CDC estimates

LA Times  

Washington Post Drug overdose deaths surpassed 72,000 in 2017, according to provisional estimates recently released by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That staggering sum works out to about 200 drug overdose deaths every day, or one every eight minutes.The increase was driven primarily by a continued surge in deaths involving synthetic opioids, a category that includes fentanyl. …

Sending Letters About Their Patients' Overdoses Changes Doctors' Prescribing Habits
6 years, 7 months ago

Sending Letters About Their Patients' Overdoses Changes Doctors' Prescribing Habits

NPR  

Sending Letters About Their Patients' Overdoses Changes Doctors' Prescribing Habits Enlarge this image toggle caption WILL & DENI MCINTYRE/Getty Images WILL & DENI MCINTYRE/Getty Images For a doctor, learning that a patient has died is often an emotional moment. "What's important about what we've found is that you can do very simple things to change prescribing and make prescribing safer," …

Opioid deaths barely slowed by prescription monitoring, study suggests
6 years, 10 months ago

Opioid deaths barely slowed by prescription monitoring, study suggests

CNN  

Story highlights Drug prescription monitoring programs are statewide efforts to reduce overprescribing of opioids Three studies showed a decrease in fatal opioid overdoses after program implementation; six showed no effect CNN — Prescription drug monitoring programs – believed to be an important tool in the fight against the opioid epidemic – may be only marginally effective in reducing overdose deaths, …

More Americans should carry overdose antidote to fight opioid crisis, says US surgeon general
6 years, 11 months ago

More Americans should carry overdose antidote to fight opioid crisis, says US surgeon general

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The US’s chief doctor wants more Americans to start carrying …

Surgeon General Warns About Opioid Overdose Epidemic, Urging Americans to Carry Naloxone
6 years, 11 months ago

Surgeon General Warns About Opioid Overdose Epidemic, Urging Americans to Carry Naloxone

CNN  

The US surgeon general has issued an advisory recommending that more Americans carry opioid overdose antidote naloxone. Naloxone can quickly reverse the effects of opioid overdose, slowing or stopping breathing. The drug is used by police officers, first responders, and emergency medical technicians to reverse opioid overdoses. The surgeon general emphasized that 'knowing how to use naloxone and keeping it …

Opioid overdose deaths are still rising in nearly every segment of the country, CDC says
7 years ago

Opioid overdose deaths are still rising in nearly every segment of the country, CDC says

LA Times  

At a time when the country seems hopelessly divided, health officials are here to remind us of something that unites Americans from all walks of life: deaths tied to opioid overdoses. 27.9% That's how much the opioid overdose death rate increased in just one year, between 2015 and 2016. In 2015, there were 10.4 opioid overdose deaths per 100,000 people. …

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