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    Tighter Opioid Laws in U.S. Haven’t Eased Misuse

    by WebMD June 27, 2016
    WEDNESDAY, June 22, 2016 (HealthDay News) — U.S. laws designed to curb abuse of opioid painkillers haven’t reduced misuse or overdoses by disabled Medicare beneficiaries, a new study suggests.

    Between 2006 and 2012, states enacted 81 laws to control use of powerful opioids such as Oxycontin and Vicodin. But even with these new prescription-drug monitoring programs and other regulations, researchers found that 45 percent of disabled Medicare beneficiaries were still using opioids in 2012.

    And 8 percent got their opioids from four or more doctors.

    “There is no evidence yet that these laws prevent misuse of prescription opioids,” said lead researcher Ellen Meara, a professor at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice in Lebanon, N.H.

    “In this vulnerable population of disabled workers, legal remedies to the opioid epidemic are too weak and too slow,” she added.

    Disabled workers are at risk of opioid abuse, she said, because they “have complex medical and social needs, high rates of poverty, and they are more likely to have diagnoses of mental illness like depression compared with other Americans.”

    Widespread availability of powerful painkillers has caused an epidemic of addiction, injury and death, said Dr. G. Caleb Alexander, co-director of the John Hopkins Center of Drug Safety and Effectiveness.

    “The United States accounts for 5 percent of the world’s population, but consumes 80 percent of the opioids — you know we’ve got a problem,” said Alexander, who wasn’t involved in the study.

    According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 78 Americans die every day from an overdose of opioids, including heroin.

    Tighter regulations have a role in curbing the epidemic, Alexander said.

    The problem with the laws enacted between 2006 and 2012 is that none addressed the “underlying pain and disenfranchisement that has led so many Americans to seek relief of pain with opioids,” Meara said.

    Eventually, though, Meara believes new and/or tougher legislation will start to turn the epidemic around.

    “Over a five-year horizon, I am optimistic that legal remedies may help slow the misuse, abuse and overdose deaths related to prescription opioids,” Meara said. “Unfortunately, the epidemic is spreading and changing rapidly, while the legal response is slow and blunt.”

    Tighter Opioid Laws in U.S. Haven’t Eased Misuse was last modified: June 29th, 2016 by WebMD

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