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Mar 2, 2023 · GPs and pharmacists have helped cut opioid prescriptions in England by 450,000 in under four years, latest data shows, as the NHS today unveils a new action plan to crack down on the overuse of potentially-addictive medicines.
Nov 30, 2020 · Impacts on practice. Triangulation of currently available data from multiple sources confirms that opioid crisis is deepening in the United Kingdom which needs urgent policy and practice focus on patient pathways to opioid misuse.
- Aziza Alenezi, Asma Yahyouche, Vibhu Paudyal
- 2021
It’s an anachronistic and backward policy that has caused a lot of harm and is no longer relevant in 2020. That policy has actually been temporarily waived under an emergency declaration from the Department of Health and Human Services as of last month, which is a very big change.
Feb 4, 2020 · The current opioid epidemic is one of the most severe public health crisis in US history. Responding to it has been difficult due to its rapidly changing nature and the severity of its...
- Nora D. Volkow, Carlos Blanco
- 2021
Apr 21, 2020 · CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE. The pandemic may fuel the next wave of the opioid crisis. COVID-19 harms various vulnerable populations, but drug users face unique challenges. By Lois Parshley. April 21,...
Jul 23, 2021 · Decades of evidence show medications like methadone and buprenorphine reduce mortality rates among patients by half or more and keep people in treatment longer. But treatment remains inaccessible...
In 2020, fatal opioid overdoses reached record highs both in the USA (more than 70 000 deaths) and Canada (more than 6300 deaths). Each wave added to rather than replaced the previous waves, with addiction and overdoses persisting among individuals using any or all of prescription opioids, heroin, and synthetic opioids such as fentanyl.
