October 25, 2017 by Brianna Ehly and Sarah Karlin-Smith Politico “We need to focus on moving upstream, we’re not just interested in making sure people have access to treatment. We…
…pain management. Safe prescribing practices for providers. Opioid overdose education, awareness, & safe medication usage materials. Naloxone, the opioid overdose rescue medication. Project Pill Drop, a community based medication disposal…
…opioid crisis, the skyrocketing costs of education and housing, and entering the job market during the great recession. Between 1999 and 2017, opioid overdose death rates among 18- to 34-year-olds…
…opioid overdose death rates among Millennials increased by more than 500 percent. During the same period, synthetic opioid death rates increased by a staggering 6,000 percent. The age group’s overall…
…treat pain responsibly, including: guidelines on appropriate opioid prescribing; training healthcare providers to identify early signs of opioid use disorders; and strengthening prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP) and other tools…
…use, prescription drug monitoring, and improved opioid prescribing, public health can solve the opioid epidemic, which kills ninety-one Americans a day. From opioid overdoses to rising infant and maternal mortality…
…analysis of synthetic opioids, alcohol, total drug, and suicide deaths. Deaths from synthetic opioids surpassed, for the first time, the numbers of deaths related to heroin and common prescription opioids…
…would drastically hamper our nation’s ability to control outbreaks, address the opioid epidemic, and keep the nation healthy and secure. This severe flu season illustrates how critical public health infrastructure…
…the nation’s health. States and communities rely on the hundreds of millions of dollars they receive annually to work on the critical health issues—including the opioid epidemic, lead poisoning, obesity,…
…health is a key component to physical health, the workforce in this area is inadequate—and we’ve known this for a while, especially as the opioid epidemic has continued. By increasing…
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