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T3: Only 11% of US people addicted to get treatment. Imagine if only 11% of cancer patients were treated. - Baltimore Health

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Opioid Unknowns | HMS Nearly 15 percent of opioid-naïve patients hospitalized under Medicare are discharged with a new prescription for opioids, according to a study published today in JAMA Internal Medicine. 

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Opioids, Mortality, and Noncancer Pain This retrospective study compared risk of death among Medicaid patients in Tennessee initiating long-acting opioid therapy for chronic noncancer pain with patients taking anticonvulsants or cyclic antidepressants.

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Opioids linked with deaths other than overdoses, study says Accidental overdoses aren't the only deadly risk from using opioid painkillers — the drugs may also contribute to heart-related deaths and other fatalities.

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All In: Oklahoma The second part of “All In,” by Eric Neuenfeldt, will be published tomorrow.Martin Hyers and William Mebane, Vegas, 2008, color photograph.There are more than a hundred casinos in Oklahoma, more than there are in Germany, more than in Canada, the UK, or in all of Central America. Within half an hour...

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Opiods are too easily prescribed for chronic pain, and too difficult to stop taking Prince's death from an overdose of fentanyl is a high-profile example of what happens thousands of times every year among people with chronic pain.

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These New Painkillers Could Replace Opioids A new class of painkiller could provide hope for the 100 million Americans who suffer from chronic pain and the 36 million who abuse prescription opiates.

Naloxone, a he**in and painkiller overdose antidote, is getting easier to buy. https://t.co/MUx9TpZNaw (via )

News from The Associated Press It is becoming easier for friends and family of he**in users or patients taking strong painkillers to buy an antidote that can reverse the effect of an overdose, as policymakers look for ways to fight a growing epidemic.

What happens when a person in long term recovery is suddenly faced with managing their pain? https://t.co/BQdazFgVUT

I'm A Recovering Addict, But My Doctors Still Gave Me Powerful Opioids By Seth Mnookin It was roughly halfway into a Saturday evening flight from Miami to Boston when I began to wonder if I was g...

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Good news: Big drop seen in opioids given to injured workers Despite the drop in the use of painkillers by hurt workers, such medications remain commonly prescribed to them in many states.