I Took Oxy And Fentanyl For Years. Here's What No One Is Telling You About The Opioid Crisis.
2 years, 1 month ago

I Took Oxy And Fentanyl For Years. Here's What No One Is Telling You About The Opioid Crisis.

Huff Post  

The author in the hospital in 2013 just before her high-dose chemotherapy began. I was one of the millions of Americans who needed high doses of opioids while unscrupulous pharmaceutical companies lied and encouraged doctors to over-prescribe OxyContin, while “pill mills” distributed these addictive medications far and wide, and while illegally produced Fentanyl found its way into street drugs like heroin. It was extremely hard on my son when I disappeared into a place he feared and hated going.” Courtesy of Rebecca Stanfel Even though I had a medical team who made my disease their life’s work by advocating for me, getting prescriptions filled was often an ordeal. Jay and I would say a thousand versions of “I’m in pain, not an addict,” and pull out the letters from doctors attesting to this. Studies that parse CDC data found “no evidence of correlation between the number of opioids prescribed and the non-medical use of opioids or of opioid addiction.” In other words, making life a living hell for pain patients isn’t now addressing overdose deaths caused by illicitly manufactured synthetic opioids like Fentanyl.

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The crisis of pain relief care in India
1 month, 1 week ago

The crisis of pain relief care in India

The Hindu  

Opioids, including morphine, derived from the poppy flower, are crucial to managing severe pain, particularly in palliative care. Ira Almeida, Project Director of the South Goa Palliative Care Project, says in South Goa, there is uninterrupted access to opioids for pain relief. The need to strengthen pain relief care and access Last year, the Supreme Court, in Harish Rana vs …

World Cancer Day: Irony of fentanyl sparking a US-China tariff war
1 month, 3 weeks ago

World Cancer Day: Irony of fentanyl sparking a US-China tariff war

Firstpost  

On February 4, World Cancer Day, when the world focussed on fighting one of the deadliest diseases, the United States and China—two of the biggest economies—were caught in a serious trade and tariff war. However, Chinese state media outlet The Global Times argues that the crisis is mainly driven by factors within the US, such as domestic demand, regulatory gaps …

Canada records almost 50,000 deaths from fentanyl since 2016
3 months ago

Canada records almost 50,000 deaths from fentanyl since 2016

Al Jazeera  

The highly addictive opioid is behind an increasing number of deaths in Canada, according to the government. Fentanyl is increasingly behind opioid overdose deaths in Canada, according to new government data. The national health agency on Monday reported that nearly 50,000 people in the North American country died from opioid overdose deaths from January 2016 to June 2024. Canada’s government …

A fentanyl antidote is saving lives - but isn't ending the fentanyl crisis
3 months, 1 week ago

A fentanyl antidote is saving lives - but isn't ending the fentanyl crisis

Hindustan Times  

* A fentanyl antidote is saving lives - but isn't ending the fentanyl crisis Naloxone credited for sharp drop in overdose deaths in U.S. * Fentanyl remains cheap and plentiful despite availability of antidote naloxone * "Tranq" drugs mixed in with fentanyl may contribute to fewer overdoses, experts say By Maurice Tamman, Shannon Stapleton COLUMBUS, Ohio, - The death toll …

Is America’s opioid epidemic finally burning out?
3 months, 1 week ago

Is America’s opioid epidemic finally burning out?

Hindustan Times  

Standing in the bitter cold outside the DeCoach Recovery Centre, a drug treatment clinic on the edge of an ocean of car parking in Hamilton, Ohio, Scott Weaver explains where his life went off track. “People will tell you it don’t because they don’t want to take it, ‘cause they ain’t done yet.” Mr Weaver’s story reflects America’s opioid crisis. …

Trump's promise to fix the fentanyl crisis appealed to voters and alarmed experts
4 months, 1 week ago

Trump's promise to fix the fentanyl crisis appealed to voters and alarmed experts

NPR  

Trump's promise to fix the fentanyl crisis appealed to voters and alarmed experts toggle caption Orange County Register/MediaNews Group via Getty Images Over the last four years, as street fentanyl overdose deaths surged, the Biden administration scrambled to fund addiction treatment programs and expand use of opioid-treatment medications like buprenorphine and naloxone. "You know, I'd like to end the drug …

Removing barriers to opioid addiction treatment is critical. So why aren't we doing it?
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Removing barriers to opioid addiction treatment is critical. So why aren't we doing it?

Salon  

There’s a treatment for opioid use disorder that literally saves lives. To do so, we homed in on residential treatment centers across the state of North Carolina, where many North Carolinians living with OUD expect to receive guidance, support and – naturally – lifesaving medical treatment. After a four-month-long audit of private organizations across North Carolina advertising themselves as residential …

A ‘miracle molecule’ could cut fentanyl deaths in half — or lead more into addiction
6 months, 3 weeks ago

A ‘miracle molecule’ could cut fentanyl deaths in half — or lead more into addiction

Politico  

But the proposal faces opposition from the health care providers with the most intimate knowledge of methadone treatment: methadone clinic directors. “The idea that a physician in private practice without support staff … that they’re going to be able to treat a complex medical problem like the use of fentanyl, is just not substantiated,” said Mark Parrino, president of the …

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 …

Lost chances to treat overdose survivors are documented in new Medicare study
9 months, 1 week ago

Lost chances to treat overdose survivors are documented in new Medicare study

Associated Press  

A new study documents lost opportunities to treat drug overdose survivors covered by the Medicare program — and illustrates the difficulty of managing chronic pain. Overdose survivors “should be at the front of the line for the full range of medications and counseling and support,” said Dr. Brian Hurley, president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, who was not …

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. …

Fentanyl epidemic reaches CONGRESS: Capitol Hill staffers given 600 free doses of live-saving medication naloxone to prevent overdoses as drug wave sweeps Washington
1 year, 1 month ago

Fentanyl epidemic reaches CONGRESS: Capitol Hill staffers given 600 free doses of live-saving medication naloxone to prevent overdoses as drug wave sweeps Washington

Daily Mail  

Naloxone, an overdose reversal medication, was distributed at the Capitol Capitol Hill staffers were given free samples of the life-saving drug naloxone as the deadly fentanyl epidemic continues to hit Washington, D.C., particularly hard. One staffer, Caty Payette, posted on X that free naloxone kits were being distributed Thursday Voices for Awareness set up a table in a Senate office …

Synthetic opioids like fentanyl could increase in Australia soon. Experts say we need to prepare now
1 year, 2 months ago

Synthetic opioids like fentanyl could increase in Australia soon. Experts say we need to prepare now

ABC  

Lachlan isn't worried about unintentionally using fentanyl, but he's acutely aware of what could happen if he did. And over the last decade, synthetic opioids like fentanyl have become more common across North American drug markets, including being found present in illicit opioids like heroin. Monash Addiction Research Centre deputy director Suzanne Nielsen says Australia's drug supply routes aren't currently …

‘It’s absolutely heartbreaking’: Fentanyl is officially Los Angeles County’s deadliest drug
1 year, 3 months ago

‘It’s absolutely heartbreaking’: Fentanyl is officially Los Angeles County’s deadliest drug

LA Times  

In 2022, fentanyl was linked to more overdose deaths in L.A. County than meth for the first time in recent years. “It’s absolutely heartbreaking,” said Amanda Cowan, executive director of Community Health Project Los Angeles, which provides services to people who use drugs. “In the case of race/ethnicity, Black people account for 8% of the population, and disproportionately accounted for …

What's fentanyl, the opioid at the centre of Biden-Xi talks, which led to 70,000 deaths in US?
1 year, 4 months ago

What's fentanyl, the opioid at the centre of Biden-Xi talks, which led to 70,000 deaths in US?

Firstpost  

Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times more so than heroin. On the sidelines of the APEC Summit, US leader Biden and China’s Xi Jinping agreed that Beijing would take action to stop the influx of fentanyl, that killed 70,000 people in the US last year On Wednesday, US president Joe …

What’s fentanyl, and why have deaths due to drug overdose spiked in the US?
1 year, 5 months ago

What’s fentanyl, and why have deaths due to drug overdose spiked in the US?

Al Jazeera  

In 2021, two-thirds of drug-related overdose deaths in the US were linked to synthetic opioids like fentanyl. Although fentanyl is approved for medical use, especially in pain management, more than 150 people in the US die every day from overdoses related to synthetic opioids like fentanyl. Fentanyl overdose deaths in the US More than 106,000 people died of a drug …

Methadone could help solve our opioid overdose crisis. Why is it so hard for people to get?
1 year, 5 months ago

Methadone could help solve our opioid overdose crisis. Why is it so hard for people to get?

Salon  

For Americans under age 45, the most likely way of dying prematurely is opioid overdose. Big cumbersome lock boxes that make it obvious that a person is on methadone, random 24-hour calls back to the clinic for bottle checks, and forced counseling are all things that keep people away from treatment, according to the National Coalition to Liberate Methadone, a …

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 …

I Took Oxy And Fentanyl For Years. Here's What No One Is Telling You About The Opioid Crisis.
1 year, 8 months ago

I Took Oxy And Fentanyl For Years. Here's What No One Is Telling You About The Opioid Crisis.

Huff Post  

The author in the hospital in 2013 just before her high-dose chemotherapy began. I was one of the millions of Americans who needed high doses of opioids while unscrupulous pharmaceutical companies lied and encouraged doctors to over-prescribe OxyContin, while “pill mills” distributed these addictive medications far and wide, and while illegally produced Fentanyl found its way into street drugs like …

Fentanyl: The new face of the US war on the poor
1 year, 10 months ago

Fentanyl: The new face of the US war on the poor

Al Jazeera  

The US government is trying to blame the fentanyl crisis on drug trafficking but it is a disaster of its own making. At an April 14 news conference in Washington, DC, Drug Enforcement Agency chief Anne Milgram sounded the alarm about the country’s latest appointed public enemy number one: four Mexican guys known as “Los Chapitos”, the sons of imprisoned …

Column: Kids are dying from fentanyl. More prison time for dealers won’t help
1 year, 10 months ago

Column: Kids are dying from fentanyl. More prison time for dealers won’t help

LA Times  

A man living in the Tenderloin section of San Francisco displays what he claims to be the synthetic drug fentanyl. “It’s just really clear now from 50 years of trying to stop the supply, it doesn’t work,” Dr. David Goodman-Meza, an infectious disease doctor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, told me. But “kilo chasing” doesn’t work with …

‘No child should be dying’: Fentanyl-related deaths among kids rising, Yale study says
1 year, 10 months ago

‘No child should be dying’: Fentanyl-related deaths among kids rising, Yale study says

LA Times  

Fentanyl-related deaths among children increased more than 30-fold between 2013 and 2021, illustrating the opioid crisis’ unrelenting impact across the United States, according to a study by the Yale School of Medicine. The study tracked data for more than two decades of opioid deaths among people under 20 and found that 5,194 children and teens have died from fentanyl. “The …

Republican senators say solving the opioid epidemic requires more than just fighting fentanyl
1 year, 10 months ago

Republican senators say solving the opioid epidemic requires more than just fighting fentanyl

Raw Story  

WASHINGTON — Officials from Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Investigations came to the U.S. Senate Appropriations subcommittee Tuesday to answer questions about fentanyl, drug trafficking, and transnational crime. "We should" talk about it, Cornyn said when asked about the opioid crisis that led to many overdose deaths long before fentanyl was being put in heroin, meth and other …

Editorial: Haven’t we learned yet? Harsher penalties won’t save us from fentanyl
1 year, 11 months ago

Editorial: Haven’t we learned yet? Harsher penalties won’t save us from fentanyl

LA Times  

Narcan is now available without a prescription to reverse opioid overdoses. People who think they’re buying fake Percocet may ingest xylazine and die from it without ever knowing they were putting horse tranquilizer in their bodies. Street teams to help people in overdose crisis, testing to ensure supplies aren’t tainted, clinics to help former users recover, community support, employment, education, …

Opinion: Why are we denying people with opioid addiction the most effective treatment?
1 year, 11 months ago

Opinion: Why are we denying people with opioid addiction the most effective treatment?

LA Times  

Signs at an Oregon treatment center show where receptacles to dispense methadone should be disposed of after use. But if your diagnosis were for opioid addiction and you came to see me, an addiction specialist, federal regulations written half a century ago would bar me from prescribing the most effective treatment: methadone. If I want my patients to access this …

FDA approves over-the-counter Narcan for opioid overdoses. Here’s what that means
2 years ago

FDA approves over-the-counter Narcan for opioid overdoses. Here’s what that means

LA Times  

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved selling naloxone without a prescription, setting the overdose-reversing drug on course to become the first opioid treatment medication to be sold over the counter. Advocates believe it’s important to get naloxone to the people who are most likely to be around over- doses, including people who use drugs and their relatives. …

US approves sale of overdose reversal drug without prescription
2 years ago

US approves sale of overdose reversal drug without prescription

Al Jazeera  

The decision comes as a bid to widen access to the life-saving drug as the US struggles with a wave of overdose deaths. The United States has decided to make Narcan, a life-saving medication that can reverse drug overdoses, accessible without a prescription as the country reels from an ongoing opioid addiction crisis. In a statement on Wednesday, the US …

Narcan Will Now Be Sold Over The Counter. Here's How To Use It.
2 years ago

Narcan Will Now Be Sold Over The Counter. Here's How To Use It.

Huff Post  

Hiraman via Getty Images Narcan may soon hit pharmacy shelves, making it more accessible for people to purchase and use. “Making naloxone OTC can help normalize the medication as something everyone person should have available — in the medicine cabinet, in the car, backpack, at work, in parks and other community settings,” Alex Bennett, a research associate professor and director …

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 …

The fear-mongering narrative around fentanyl has eerie parallels to the crack epidemic
2 years, 2 months ago

The fear-mongering narrative around fentanyl has eerie parallels to the crack epidemic

Salon  

Fentanyl seems to have a strange grip on the public mind these days, as breathless narratives around this drug are everywhere. Helping people is more humane and less expensive than another drug war Misinformation about fentanyl abounds, and basic facts can be hard to come by given how the mainstream news narrative rarely questions the idea that merely looking at …

Naloxone: Opioid overdose reversal medication is reaching more people than ever
2 years, 2 months ago

Naloxone: Opioid overdose reversal medication is reaching more people than ever

CNN  

CNN — As drug overdose deaths hover near record levels in the United States, naloxone is reaching more people than ever, and possible policy shifts could make it more accessible this year. “I’ve had overdose that come in that just don’t respond to naloxone at all because of either the amount or the potency of the opioid that they have …

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 says it seized enough fentanyl in 2022 to kill every American
2 years, 3 months ago

US says it seized enough fentanyl in 2022 to kill every American

Raw Story  

US law enforcement seized more than enough fentanyl to kill all Americans in 2022, the Drug Enforcement Administration said Tuesday, underscoring the deep threat of the deadly man-made opioid. The DEA said it had captured 50.6 million fake prescription pills laced with fentanyl and 10,000 pounds of fentanyl powder during the year, calling it the equivalent of "more than 379 …

Fentanyl’s scourge evident on the streets of Los Angeles
2 years, 3 months ago

Fentanyl’s scourge evident on the streets of Los Angeles

Al Jazeera  

For too many people strung out on the drug, the sleep that follows a fentanyl hit could be permanent. The highly addictive and potentially lethal drug has become a scourge across the United States and is taking a toll on the growing number of people living on the streets of Los Angeles. Two-thirds of the 107,000 overdose deaths in 2021 …

Created to treat intense pain, highly addictive fentanyl is now a scourge on the streets of cities like Los Angeles
2 years, 3 months ago

Created to treat intense pain, highly addictive fentanyl is now a scourge on the streets of cities like Los Angeles

ABC  

In a filthy alley behind a Los Angeles doughnut shop, Ryan Smith convulsed in the grips of a fentanyl high — lurching from moments of slumber to bouts of violent shivering on a warm summer day. Key points: Fentanyl addiction has skyrocketed across the United States, named the deadliest drug in the nation by health officials The synthetic opioid was …

Couple dies by suicide after DEA shuts down office of their chronic pain doctor in fentanyl panic
2 years, 3 months ago

Couple dies by suicide after DEA shuts down office of their chronic pain doctor in fentanyl panic

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 On 1 November, agents …

Fentanyl, other synthetic opioids are driving deadliest overdose crisis in the U.S.
2 years, 5 months ago

Fentanyl, other synthetic opioids are driving deadliest overdose crisis in the U.S.

LA Times  

Portraits of fentanyl victims at an exhibit at the Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters in Arlington, Va. Lillianna Alfaro was a recent high school graduate raising a toddler and considering joining the Army when she and a friend bought what they thought was the anti-anxiety drug Xanax in December 2020. “Two years ago, I knew nothing about this,” said Holly Groelle, …

Opioid crisis costs US $1.5TRILLION in 2020 as fentanyl use rocketed during the pandemic
2 years, 6 months ago

Opioid crisis costs US $1.5TRILLION in 2020 as fentanyl use rocketed during the pandemic

Daily Mail  

The devastating opioid epidemic in the US has cost the government nearly $1.5trillion in 2020 alone after being exacerbated by the Covid pandemic and rise of fentanyl, new figures show. In Wisconsin, for instance, synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl, were identified in 91 per cent of opioid overdose deaths and 73 per cent of all drug overdose deaths over the last …

Advocates seek more say in how opioid settlements are spent
2 years, 6 months ago

Advocates seek more say in how opioid settlements are spent

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The tattoos on Billie Stafford’s hands — inspired by street art and full of references to her work helping prevent drug-related deaths — have become an indelible memorial to the friend who inked them and the opioid crisis that killed him in April. “They don’t have to come and write 20 names on a wall because everyone’s …

Why is the racial gap in US drug overdoses widening?
2 years, 8 months ago

Why is the racial gap in US drug overdoses widening?

Al Jazeera  

On Thursday, July 28 at 19:30 GMT: The number of people dying from drug overdoses in the US is now at record levels, with the number of fatalities recorded in 2021 equivalent to one death every five minutes. Now the US Centers for Disease Control has found that that while fatal overdoses rose dramatically during the first year of the …

Rural Florida county shocked by fentanyl deaths over holiday
2 years, 8 months ago

Rural Florida county shocked by fentanyl deaths over holiday

Associated Press  

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A small, largely rural county west of Florida’s capital experienced an unheard-of spike in deadly drug overdoses believed to be caused by fentanyl over the July 4 weekend, with nine people dying in the latest sign that a national crisis is becoming even more far-reaching. The problem has become so acute that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration …

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 …

What is fentanyl and why is it behind the deadly surge in overdoses? A medical toxicologist explains
2 years, 10 months ago

What is fentanyl and why is it behind the deadly surge in overdoses? A medical toxicologist explains

Salon  

Buying drugs on the street is a game of Russian roulette. Lacing or replacing drugs with fentanyl Drug dealers have used fentanyl analogs as an adulterant in illicit drug supplies since 1979, with fentanyl-related overdoses clustered in individual cities. From May 2020 to April 2021, more than 100,000 Americans died from a drug overdose, with over 64% of these deaths …

Teen fentanyl overdose deaths tripled in last three years, study finds
2 years, 11 months ago

Teen fentanyl overdose deaths tripled in last three years, study finds

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 Teen overdose deaths in …

California lawmakers target fentanyl as opioid overdoses surge
2 years, 11 months ago

California lawmakers target fentanyl as opioid overdoses surge

LA Times  

California lawmakers are responding to a surge in fentanyl overdoses and deaths in their cities with a list of bills that include imposing stronger penalties for distributing the synthetic opioid and easing access to safer consumption and treatment. “I think it’s important for us as a Legislature to turn the page on that and act urgently now to protect our …

How the Covid surgery backlog is leaving thousands of new victims addicted to opioids
3 years, 1 month ago

How the Covid surgery backlog is leaving thousands of new victims addicted to opioids

Daily Mail  

As Sheena Mason-White left hospital five days after undergoing major spinal surgery last June, a doctor handed her a paper bag full of medicines to aid her recovery. Sheena’s instructions were clear — take two tablets four times a day and once the first week’s supply was used up, simply ring her GP practice to request a repeat prescription. As …

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