Sentences with phrase «opioid addiction seen»
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.
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«There's a big difference between [medical marijuana] and recreational marijuana, and I think when you see something like the opioid addiction crisis blossoming in so many states around this country, the last thing we should be doing is encouraging people,» said Spicer during the briefing.
In the last four years, Albany County has seen a 23 percent increase in children needing foster care because of parents afflicted by opioid addiction, mental health issues or domestic violence.
«We are seeing improvement in our battle against opioid and heroin addiction, which is why we must continue to prioritize funding for the programs that are working to save residents.
«We've seen enough data to know that our opioid addiction problem is spiraling out of control.
«Simply put, we have seen no evidence that the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act has fueled the opioid epidemic in Erie County, nor that Medicaid funding somehow fuels opioid addiction,» Poloncarz said in a statement.
«We are seeing an enormous rise in fatalities over the last few years as a result of opioid addiction,» she said, adding that there is currently no estimate for how much the county would be seeking in compensation.
«It was very concerning to see that by the last year we studied, an average of 135 children each day were testing positive for opioid addiction or dependency in emergency departments,» said Veerajalandhar Allareddy, MD, MBA, one of the abstract's authors and medical director of the pediatric intensive care unit at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital.»
Our country now sees addiction to painkillers and opioids such as vicodin, oxycontin and heroin as a national epidemic.