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Anchor lead: What are the possibilities when it comes to medicines for addiction? Elizabeth Tracey reports As deaths from opioids continue apace, figuring out how best to help people overcome addiction is more important than ever, with one recent study …
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Anchor lead: Should the antidote to opioids be prescribed along with the pain medicines? Elizabeth Tracey reports Naloxone, the drug used to reverse opioid overdoses, should be prescribed along with the powerful pain relievers, many advocacy groups believe. Eric Strain, …
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Anchor lead: How can we help people addicted to drugs without adequate numbers of providers? Elizabeth Tracey reports The journal Science has just reported that our problem with drug overdose deaths actually began in 1979, and has been rising steadily …
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Anchor lead: Opioids are just the latest in a long trend of escalating drug overdoses, Elizabeth Tracey reports Everyone knows opioids, including prescription drugs, heroin and fentanyl are the culprits when it comes to drug overdoses, right? Not so fast, …
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Anchor lead: With Medicaid expansion, more people are at least filling prescriptions for drugs to help them get off opioids, Elizabeth Tracey reports Medicaid expansion in a few states has led to an increase in prescriptions for a drug combination …
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Anchor lead: Integration with drug treatment is needed when people come to the ED with an overdose, Elizabeth Tracey reports Emergency departments are well-equipped to handle opioid overdose, but less so when it comes to getting people into drug treatment, …
