Enlarge this image The shelter at Houston’s Convention Center, seen here Aug. 29, isn’t equipped to provide medication-assisted treatment for opioid abuse.…
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Enlarge this image Andrea Towson used heroin for more than three decades. After a near-death experience with fentanyl, she sought help. Shelby…
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Enlarge this image Some medical professionals say declaring a national emergency could make Naloxone, a drug that treats opioid overdoses, more readily…
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Enlarge this image The morphine-like pain killer Oxycontin is just one of a number of opioids fueling a substance use crisis in…
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Doctor Who Wrote 1980 Letter On Painkillers Regrets That It Fed The Opioid Crisis
by NPR June 16, 2017Enlarge this image A 1980 letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine was later widely cited as evidence that long-term…
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Enlarge this image Charlene Yurgaitis gets health insurance through Medicaid in Pennsylvania. It covers the counseling and medication she and her doctors…
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Enlarge this image With an opioid addiction crisis that shows no sign of abating, how we describe addiction and dependence matters. Hero…
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Enlarge this image Charmayne Healy (l) and Miranda Kirk (r), co-founders of the Aaniiih Nakoda Anti-Drug Movement, have helped Melinda Healy, center,…