Sentences with phrase «opioid abuse over»
Efforts to combat heroin and opioid abuse over the last several years have totaled millions of dollars in new efforts as well as regulations placed on insurance companies to deal with the issue, marking one of the few bipartisan issues facing lawmakers at either the state or federal level.
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«With over eighty percent of New Yorkers saying that doctors over-prescribing opioids and allowing patients access to too many pain pills are at least somewhat responsible for the current level of opioid abuse, it is concerning, but not surprising, that among those that were prescribed, a quarter admit that they were given too many pills and nearly two - thirds didn't take the entire prescription.
Additional numbers included in the survey found 80 percent of state residents agreeing the United States is in the middle of an opioid epidemic and 83 percent think the problem of opioid abuse has gotten worse over the past few years.
ERIE COUNTY, NY — The Erie County Department of Health («ECDOH») today sponsored a first - ever conference entitled «Heroin Summit: A Community Crisis» to bring together over 100 leaders and executives from a cross-section of agencies and organizations to discuss the growing threat of heroin and opioid abuse in Erie County.
Statistics from the Kaiser Family Foundation show a growing epidemic of opioid abuse in the United States over the last 15 years.
Many drugs that have been heralded as improvements over existing opioids are just old opioids repackaged in new ways, says Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
The debate over whether «to expand or not to expand» prescribing of buprenorphine for opioid abuse is discussed in an expert review in the Journal of Psychiatric Practice, published by Wolters Kluwer.
«This is very consistent with data from the [U.S.] Drug Enforcement Administration that shows a great increase in the trafficking and availability of synthetic opioids like illicit fentanyl over the past few years,» said lead researcher Christopher Jones, of the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.