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California Struggles with Increasing Fentanyl-Methamphetamine Overdoses
California faces a surge in overdoses from combined fentanyl and methamphetamine use, marking the “fourth wave of the opioid crisis.” With cartels targeting the state and polydrug abuse on the rise, more than ten thousand lives are lost each year, highlighting the urgent need for prevention and recovery efforts.
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Fentanyl Floods Into America at an Unprecedented Rate
Solving America’s problem with illicit synthetic opioids starts with a rational assessment of the extent of the problem. Learn how much fentanyl is still flooding across our borders.
Michigan Healthcare Scheme Involved Opioids
A story broke in early 2023 that revealed a Detroit-area doctor had been sentenced to nearly 17 years in prison and was ordered to pay $30 million. The crime? Leading a scheme to bill Medicare and private insurers for unnecessary painkiller injections and for writing prescriptions for millions of opioids.
Drugged Driving in America
An examination of recent data regarding drugged driving in the US shows the problem has worsened. And unlike drunk driving, public health officials and law enforcement have yet to establish effective protocols for preventing drugged driving.
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Powerfully Dangerous Meth Linked to Homelessness and Mental Illness
Reports from across America testify to the catastrophic effects of a new form of methamphetamine that is driving some people into mental institutions and others into homeless encampments.
Alarming Increase in California Fentanyl Busts Shed Light on How Accessible Fentanyl Is
California recently conducted a statewide crackdown on fentanyl, seizing over 28,000 pounds of the highly potent opioid in the past year, a nearly six-fold increase over the previous year. Given the exponential increase in the prevalence of fentanyl in the United States, family members of addicts must be warned of the dangers of fentanyl and encouraged to seek help for their loved ones as soon as possible.
Nitazenes, A New Drug with Fentanyl–Like Potency Hits the Streets
In Tennessee, four times as many fatalities were recorded for nitazene overdoses in 2021 than in 2020, with some experts saying nitazenes are as potent or more potent than fentanyl. Further, naloxone does not always work to counteract the effects of nitazene overdoses, exacerbating risks and potentially setting the stage for the next drug overdose epidemic.
How Can We Make REAL Progress on the Drug Crisis in the 2020s?
We have just passed into a new year and a new decade. There is some significance to that. We are saying our goodbyes to 2019 and the 2010s and saying hello to the year 2020 and the new decade of the 2020s. There is much that we need to work on in the new year and the new decade.
Will the Next Generation of Doctors Be Better Equipped to Treat Pain?
We look to our doctors for help in improving our physical condition, and that covers a broad range of areas.
The East Coast Suffers under the Weight of Opioid Addiction
The United States has suffered for nigh on two decades with an opioid crisis. It is a sweeping addiction epidemic that has torn millions of families and individual lives apart. Widely publicized as the worst addiction-related epidemic in the history of our nation, opioid addiction first came about on a grand scale in the late 1990s with the mass introduction of opioid pharmaceuticals as being the primary method of dealing with patient pain.
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