Showing posts with label opioid epidemic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label opioid epidemic. Show all posts
Sunday, June 23, 2019

Policy Makers Are Always The Weakest Link In Healthcare

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When it comes to solutions to the opioid epidemic - talk is cheap. The last 20 years everybody has “the solution”. The AMA came up wi...
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Sunday, October 7, 2018

Drug Overdoses As A Proxy For Drug Epidemics

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Figure 1 - Mortality rates from unintentional drug overdoses. (A and B) Mortality rates for (A) individual drugs and (B) all d...
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Sunday, September 16, 2018

To All Of The Opioid Epidemic Deniers........

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I encountered an absolutely stunning piece the other day about how there really was no opioid epidemic.  The author's various argumen...
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Monday, May 7, 2018

The Whitening of the Opioid Epidemic....

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I was reading the most recent copy of the Psychiatric News (May 4, 2018) when a story jumped off the page at me.  It was called ...
Saturday, July 8, 2017

Latest From MMWR On Opioid Prescribing In the USA

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The CDC continues to do outstanding work in providing useful metrics for monitoring the current opioid epidemic.  The latest edition of ...
Saturday, June 3, 2017

Enhancing The Volkow-Collins Approach To The Opioid Epidemic

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Nora Volkow, MD - Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD - Director of the National Institu...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Lawyers, Libertarians, and Journalists On the Opioid Epidemic

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It was a perfect confluence of events today.  At one point or another I heard or read about somebody's theory of why there was an ...
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Sunday, May 21, 2017

Minnesota Street Drug Bulletin - Carfentanil

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Opioids morphine (upper left) and hydrocodone (lower left) and synthetic opioids fentanyl (upper right) and carfentanil (lower right) ...