Sentences with phrase «opioid prescriptions rose»

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One key factor contributing to the trend is the major spike in fatalities related to drugs, including prescription painkillers containing addictive opioids (like oxycodone and fentanyl) and illegal drugs like heroin; another is the second straight year that gun deaths have risen after 15 years of remaining relatively stable.

Gillibrand says the number of prescription opioid - related deaths rose nationally more than 1,600 percent between 2004 and 2015.

Making this drug available without a prescription is critical to combating the rise in opioid related deaths.»

Onondaga County Health Commissioner Dr. Indu Gupta said one of the reasons for the rise in opioid addiction seen across the country is the increased use in prescription painkillers.

According to Schneiderman, opioids, both prescription and illicit, are driving the rising number of drug overdose deaths across the United States.

While average life expectancy has been rising steadily in most countries over the past century, new research led by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows that life expectancy declined significantly and rapidly in three countries where policy changes increased access to prescription opioids, alcohol or illicit drugs.

«Canada is second in the world only to the U.S. in our rates of prescription opioid use, and the rise of prescription opioids in our provinces has also shown to be strongly linked to overdose deaths,» cautions Dr. Rehm, who is also Head of the World Health Organization / Pan-American Health Organization (WHO / PAHO) Collaborating Centre in Addiction and Mental Health at CAMH.

Deaths and cases of substance use disorders linked to opioid painkillers have risen to epidemic levels nationally, with more than 14,000 deaths from prescription opioids in 2014 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Use and misuse of opioids — morphine and related drugs, including prescription pain medications — has risen rapidly in recent years, leading the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to declare a nationwide «opioid epidemic.»

«Appropriate access to medication - assisted therapies under Medicaid is a key piece of the strategy to address the rising rate of death from overdoses of prescription opioids,» said co-author Stephen Cha, M.D., M.H.S., chief medical officer for the Center for Medicaid and CHIP [Children's Health Insurance Program] Services at CMS.

«Opioid - related hospitalizations rising in Medicare patients without opioid prescriptions.&Opioid - related hospitalizations rising in Medicare patients without opioid prescriptions.&opioid prescriptions.»

They found the number of ED visits by patients age 21 and younger for any reason who were diagnosed with addiction or dependency on opioids — which include prescription painkillers as well as illicit drugs such as heroin — rose from 32,235 in 2008 to 49,626 in 2013.

A surge in prescriptions for opioids such as Oxycontin and Vicodin over the past two decades dovetails with a steep rise in addiction and overdoses in the United States.

Officials blame this increase on the rise of addictive prescription drugs such as Vicodin, OxyContin, Percocet, codeine, and Fentora, all of which are opioids (derivatives of opium).