Del. Christopher Peace: The battle advances against opioid addiction stat : Richmond
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the rate of opioid overdoses in the United States has tripled since 2000. Opioid overdoses in 2014 led to nearly 30,000 deaths nationwide. Last year in the Warrenton town limits alone, police responded to 19 opioid overdoses — 15 from heroin and four from prescription drugs. After that many years, "the drugs change the way you look at things."Because opioid addiction is so difficult to overcome, prevention is critical. At age 14, he was prescribed Percocet for a knee injury, which first gave him a taste of opioids, said Smith.
One major problem is the lack of protocol or widely endorsed best practices to guide opioid prescribing in most cases. But there is little oversight for opioid prescribing. In fact, patients treated by high prescribers came back to the hospital more frequently for opioid-related complications, such as falls, fractures or overdoses. There should also be ongoing evaluation of physician competency in opioid prescribing. And we've found unsettling evidence that whether you are prescribed an opioid, and whether a first opioid prescription turns into many, could be just a matter of chance.
collected by :Lucy William
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the rate of opioid overdoses in the United States has tripled since 2000. Opioid overdoses in 2014 led to nearly 30,000 deaths nationwide. Last year in the Warrenton town limits alone, police responded to 19 opioid overdoses — 15 from heroin and four from prescription drugs. After that many years, "the drugs change the way you look at things."Because opioid addiction is so difficult to overcome, prevention is critical. At age 14, he was prescribed Percocet for a knee injury, which first gave him a taste of opioids, said Smith.
One major problem is the lack of protocol or widely endorsed best practices to guide opioid prescribing in most cases. But there is little oversight for opioid prescribing. In fact, patients treated by high prescribers came back to the hospital more frequently for opioid-related complications, such as falls, fractures or overdoses. There should also be ongoing evaluation of physician competency in opioid prescribing. And we've found unsettling evidence that whether you are prescribed an opioid, and whether a first opioid prescription turns into many, could be just a matter of chance.
collected by :Lucy William
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