Enlarge this image Surgeon General Jerome Adams is recommending that more Americans be prepared to save people from opioid overdoses. Chip Somodevilla/Getty…
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Cost Of U.S. Opioid Epidemic Since 2001 Is $1 Trillion And Climbing
by Greg Allen February 13, 2018Enlarge this image A young man uses heroin under a bridge in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, a neighborhood that has become…
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Enlarge this image Battalion Chief Mark St. Laurent, seen here at the Franklin Square firehouse in Washington, D.C., says sometimes multiple doses…
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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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Medicaid Expansion Has Delivered Access To Addiction Treatment, Report Finds
by NPR July 7, 2017Enlarge this image Medicaid spending on medications used to treat opioid addiction has risen sharply in recent years. Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images…
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Enlarge this image Emergency doctors like nasal versions of some drugs because they act quickly and don’t require an IV to administer.…
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by explainingmedicine June 21, 2016Micromedex Detailed Drug Information for the Consumer [Internet]. Truven Health Analytics; 1974-2016. Morphine (Oral route) MOR-feen Brand Name(s) In the US: AVINza,…