People who get incarcerated—in prisons or jails—tend to be people with more advanced addiction. If they have opioid use disorders, they typically spend their term without any opioids. When they are released, their tolerance has decreased, and if they relapse—which is likely—they may overdose. That danger was never as great as it is now, explained Josiah D. Rich, MD, MPH, … [Read more...] about Moving Ahead on Methadone in Corrections
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Poll: Americans Consider the Opioid Crisis a Major Problem—but Not a National Emergency
Results of Seven Merged National Polls, 2016 and 2017, New England Journal of Medicine – February 1, 2018 How serious is the opioid crisis? Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention give an idea: The annual rate of drug overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids (other than methadone) rose on average 18% from 1999 to 2006. Methadone’s overdose death rates … [Read more...] about Poll: Americans Consider the Opioid Crisis a Major Problem—but Not a National Emergency
