Tag: Opioids
Opioid epidemic may have cost states at least $130 billion in...
Joel Segel, Pennsylvania State University; Douglas L. Leslie, Pennsylvania State University; Gary Zajac, Pennsylvania State University; Max Crowley, Pennsylvania State University, and Paul L....
What Oklahoma’s opioid settlement means for other states, cities and counties...
Andrew Pollis, Case Western Reserve University
Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter recently announced that the state had reached a US$270 million settlement with Purdue Pharma,...
Promising new drug for treatment-resistant depression – esketamine
Lee Hoffer, Case Western Reserve University
Treatment-resistant depression affects 1 in 3 of the estimated 16.2 million adults in the U.S. who have suffered at...
An ethical dilemma for doctors: When is it OK to prescribe...
Travis N. Rieder, Johns Hopkins University
America’s opioid crisis is getting worse. The role of prescription opioids has both the medical establishment and the government...
The opioid epidemic is finally a national emergency – eight years...
Erin Winstanley, West Virginia University
“It has been many long, hard, agonizing battles for the last few years and you fought like a warrior every...
Fentanyl and other synthetic opioids sold as counterfeits in deadly new...
Samuel Banister, Stanford University; Axel Adams, University of California, San Francisco, and Roy Gerona, University of California, San Francisco
In March and April, 56 people...
Is misuse of prescription painkillers among youth athletes leading to heroin...
Phil Veliz, University of Michigan
Over the past several years, the sports media have presented several stories of youth athletes who have become addicted to...
Some good news on opioid epidemic: Treatment options are expanding
William Greene, University of Florida and Lisa J. Merlo, University of Florida
In the past two decades, the devastation associated with opioid addiction has escaped...
EXPLORING NATURE
Wildfires can contaminate drinking water systems with harmful chemicals − here’s...
Andrew J. Whelton, Purdue University
The wildfires in the Los Angeles area have destroyed more than 10,000 structures, many...
