A peek into opioid users' brains as they try to quit!

A peek into opioid users' brains as they try to quit

A research study about reconditioning the brain, with an understanding that addiciton is a brain disease.
Volkow's theory: "Medication-based treatment will help those damaged neural networks start ge

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Patterns of Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths in California, 2011-2017

California continues to face a serious public health crisis with the dynamic and rapidly changing opioid epidemic having substantial health and economic impacts. This brief describes opioid-related overdose deaths over time, and demographic differenc

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Two-thirds of global drug deaths now from opioids: UN drugs report

Link: https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/06/1041341

Excerpt:

Opioids, which include both heroin and legal pain relievers, were responsible for around two-thirds of drug-related deaths

Started by Joshua C. Rubin in Public Health

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TIME: One Possible Solution to the Opioid Crisis in the U.S. Has Been Inexplicably Ignored

Excerpt:

BY TOMMY THOMPSON AND DAVID HEBERT

JUNE 24, 2019

IDEAS

Thompson served as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2001-2005 and as the 42nd Gover

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FDA proposes tighter opioid rules that would make new drugs less addictive

Key Points:

The FDA is proposing to tighten the rules for opioid manufacturers by requiring companies to prove their drugs may be less addictive.
Drugmakers will be asked to prov

Started by Joshua C. Rubin in Public Health

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Harvard Health Blog: More opioids, more pain: Fueling the fire

Excerpt:

For more than a century, clinicians have noticed a paradoxical phenomenon: certain patients who are taking opioids (which are supposed to numb pain) become more sensitive to pain t

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New National Map of Family-Based Recovery Programs Available

Link: https://chronicleofsocialchange.org/news-2/new-national-map-of-family-based-recovery-programs-available/36188

One of the many changes within the Family First Prevention Services Act is

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The California Youth Opioid Response (YOR California) project

https://www.cibhs.org/yorcalifornia

The California Youth Opioid Response (YOR California) project envisions a California with a continuum of accessible and effective youth-specific services. With this goal in mind, YOR California is working with loca

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NPR: Opioid Crackdown Could Lead To More Drug Company Bankruptcies

Many of the drug industry's biggest companies are tangled up in a wave of opioid litigation, including name brand companies Johnson & Johnson and CVS. It's unlikely large firms will fo

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CNN: Expert witness: Johnson & Johnson's role in opioid crisis may be 'worse' than Purdue's

One of the nation's top experts on opioid addiction said Tuesday that Johnson & Johnson's role in the current epidemic may be even "worse" than that of P

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Community Coalition Accelerator -- the most powerful way to improve your community coalition response to the opioid crisis

NIC Friends,

Over the past 2 years, I've been working with leading professionals to develop a process to rapidly enhance and expand community engagement for addressing the opioid crisis. We've created some amazing tools--like the free comprehensive s

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Overdoses in California prisons up 113% in three years — nearly 1,000 incidents in 2018

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Overdoses-in-California-prisons-up-113-in-three-13819811.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&utm_source=share-by-email&utm_medium=email

...Nearly 1,000 men and women in California prisons overdo

Started by Daniel Bach in Emergency Services, Human Services, and Public Health

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Opioid Prescriptions Drop Sharply Among State Workers

https://californiahealthline.org/news/opioid-prescriptions-drop-sharply-among-state-workers/

The agency that manages health care for California’s massive state workforce is reporting a major reduction in opioid prescriptions, reflecting a national tre

Started by Daniel Bach in Education, Emergency Services, and Health IT

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NPR: University of Michigan Medical School Study: Opioid Addiction Drug Going Mostly To Whites, Even As Black Death Rate Rises

NPR: University of Michigan Medical School Study: Opioid Addiction Drug Going Mostly To Whites, Even As Black Death Rate Rises

White drug users addicted to heroin, fentanyl and other opioids have had near exclusive access to buprenorphine, a drug that

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Bloomberg: This May Hurt a Little (Or a Lot) as Opioids Haunt Pharma Bonds

Drugmakers face government suits on generic price-fixing, too
Some are already so indebted they can’t afford settlements

Debt holders are placing all-or-nothing bets on junk bonds from drug makers embroiled in lawsuits over the opioid epidemic

Started by Joshua C. Rubin in Public Health

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WIRED: The Unseen Victims of the Opioid Crisis Are Starting to Rebel

https://www.wired.com/story/the-true-victims-of-the-opioid-crisis-are-starting-to-rebel/

The campaign to keep opioids away from people who abuse them has ended up punishing the people

Started by Joshua C. Rubin in Public Health

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Congressional report: Purdue Pharma influenced World Health Organization’s opioid guidelines

The Washington Post

Congressional report: Purdue Pharma influenced World Health Organization’s opioid guidelines

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/congressional-report-purdue-pharma-influenced-world-health-organizations-opioid-guidelines/2019/05/

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NIH Director's Blog: Dr. Francis Collins: Easier Access to Naloxone Linked to Fewer Opioid Deaths

Easier Access to Naloxone Linked to Fewer Opioid Deaths

Posted on by Dr. Francis Collins

A few weeks ago, I was pleased to take part in the announcement of NIH’s HEALing Communities Study in four states hard hit by the opioid epidemic. This study will

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A Legal Reckoning in the Opioid Crisis

From a Fortune Health Brainstorm Daily Email...

Good afternoon, readers.

There may never be true justice for the countless American families who have suffered in the opioid addiction epidemic—a crisis for which the medical industry itself carries plent

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Behind the Data on Connecticut's Opioid Overdose Problem

https://www.govtech.com/analytics/Behind-the-Data-on-Connecticuts-Opioid-Overdose-Problem.html

Hearst Connecticut Media reviewed the detailed data about the 3,701 opioid-related deaths over four years, from the chief state medical examiner’s office.

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A peek into opioid users' brains as they try to quit!

Patterns of Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths in California, 2011-2017

Two-thirds of global drug deaths now from opioids: UN drugs report

TIME: One Possible Solution to the Opioid Crisis in the U.S. Has Been Inexplicably Ignored

FDA proposes tighter opioid rules that would make new drugs less addictive

Harvard Health Blog: More opioids, more pain: Fueling the fire

New National Map of Family-Based Recovery Programs Available

New National Map of Family-Based Recovery Programs Available

The California Youth Opioid Response (YOR California) project

NPR: Opioid Crackdown Could Lead To More Drug Company Bankruptcies

NPR: Opioid Crackdown Could Lead To More Drug Company Bankruptcies

CNN: Expert witness: Johnson & Johnson's role in opioid crisis may be 'worse' than Purdue's

CNN: Expert witness: Johnson & Johnson's role in opioid crisis may be 'worse' than Purdue's

Community Coalition Accelerator -- the most powerful way to improve your community coalition response to the opioid crisis

Overdoses in California prisons up 113% in three years — nearly 1,000 incidents in 2018

Opioid Prescriptions Drop Sharply Among State Workers

NPR: University of Michigan Medical School Study: Opioid Addiction Drug Going Mostly To Whites, Even As Black Death Rate Rises

Bloomberg: This May Hurt a Little (Or a Lot) as Opioids Haunt Pharma Bonds

WIRED: The Unseen Victims of the Opioid Crisis Are Starting to Rebel

Congressional report: Purdue Pharma influenced World Health Organization’s opioid guidelines

NIH Director's Blog: Dr. Francis Collins: Easier Access to Naloxone Linked to Fewer Opioid Deaths

Easier Access to Naloxone Linked to Fewer Opioid Deaths

A Legal Reckoning in the Opioid Crisis

Behind the Data on Connecticut's Opioid Overdose Problem

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