More than 80 percent of people in North Dakota’s prisons have a substance addiction, and half of all arrests in the state are substance-related.
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{FD} Frustrated opioid patients speak out: ‘I now buy heroin on the street’
Hundreds of people who reached out to Fox News through emails, and messages on social media, following the publication of a three-part series on the nation’s struggle to address its crippling opioid crisis caused mainly by illegal drugs, and the unintended victims – chronic pain sufferers who have relied on prescribed opioids for relief — left in its wake.
{FD} Fentanyl now deadliest drug in America, meth overdoses growing, CDC says
Fentanyl is now the deadliest drug in America, beating out heroin and oxycodone which had previously been involved in the most overdose fatalities between 2011 and 2016.
{FD} Tough new opioid policies leave some cancer and post-surgery patients without painkillers
New federal and state hard lines on painkiller prescriptions are affecting even cancer patients and people fresh out of major surgeries.
{FD} Health experts offer solutions for unintended consequences of opioid crackdown
The most urgently needed first step to addressing the misunderstandings about Centers for Disease and Prevention opioid prescribing guidelines, many clinicians and health experts say, is for the agency to clarify – in a high-profile way– what the guidelines were meant, and not meant, to do.
{FD} Doctors caught between struggling opioid patients and crackdown on prescriptions
Doctors are opting to stop prescribing legal opioids – even to people who are left bedridden without them — as insurers, pharmacies, state medical boards and state and federal law enforcement authorities warn them about overstepping federal opioid prescribing guidelines (issued in 2016 by the Centers for Disease Control) and the regulatory or third-party limits that followed on the number of pills and daily dosage they can give patients. Some have stopped prescribing opioids after being faced with losing their medical license or getting arrested.
{FD} James Bond has a ‘severe’ drinking problem, researchers argue
He’s blowing well over a 0.07.
{FD} As doctors taper or end opioid prescriptions, many patients driven to despair, suicide
Doctors and medical establishments are sharply reducing doses of – or altogether no long prescribing — pain medications, leaving many among the estimated 20 million Americans who suffer from daily debilitating chronic pain to consider ending their lives, and many others to kill themselves.
{FD} Overdoses, suicides push down US life expectancy
Suicides and drug overdoses pushed up U.S. deaths last year, and drove a continuing decline in how long Americans are expected to live.
{FD} Melania Trump calls opioid epidemic ‘worst drug crisis in American history’
First lady Melania Trump called the opioid epidemic the “worst drug crisis in American history” during a town hall meeting with students at Liberty University on Wednesday.