opioids
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In Hindsight Maybe This Pro-Fentanyl Rap Video Made By A Pharma Company Wasn’t The Best Look
That drug companies have fuelled the opioid crisis by flooding the market with deceptively marketed, highly addictive painkillers is no secret. But the antics of Insys Therapeutics, now being revealed in an ongoing federal court battle, seem especially evil. Well, evil and incredibly, supremely ridiculous.
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The Current U.S. Drug Overdose Crisis Began In The Late 1970s, Study Finds
The devastation wrought by opioids in recent years is only part of a much larger drug crisis in the United States that stretches back four decades, according to a new study published Thursday in Science. Since 1979, the study found, the overdose death rate has been exponentially climbing, even as the deadly drugs of choice…
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Americans’ Legal Opioid Use Hasn’t Budged Much Over The Past Decade
Above, pills containing a combination of the opioid oxycodone with acetaminophen, commonly sold as the brand name drug Percocet.Photo: Patrick Sison (AP) Despite a growing awareness of the dangers and risks of opioid addiction among doctors and patients, the average amount of opioids prescribed to Americans over the past decade has barely budged, suggests a…
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Opioid-Addicted Americans Seem To Have This Genetic Variation In Common
Who you are is the result of a complicated interplay between your environment, your genes, and probably a few other factors science has yet to uncover. Genetics influence somewhere around half of a person’s “vulnerability to addiction,” according to the US National Institute on Drug Abuse. Now, as opioid addiction has reached epidemic levels in…