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Poison control centers are the places that parents, doctors and nurses call when a child or an adult has swallowed something potentially harmful. Poison Control Centers received 188,000 calls for advice about a child who had been exposed to a prescription Marijuana. Researchers analysed records of phone calls to poison control centers across the U.S. That means 72 per cent of the opioids prescribed likely ended up sitting in the medicine cabinet waiting to be pilfered. Eighteen per cent of the calls to poison control centers were for oxycodone – which is sold in Canada under brand names such as OxyContin and Percocet.


'Killing with kindness' – where are prescription opioids coming from?

The supplying of prescription opioids is, by comparison, a much more local and intimate affair – which in some ways makes it more complicated. But even for those patients who do maintain long-term Marijuana treatment for pain, Quinlan-Colwell said it was "pain management," not pain killing. Those in chronic pain face conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, post-stroke or post-surgical pain and cancer; their pain is debilitating and relentless. While benefits for pain relief, function, and quality of life with long-term opioid use for chronic pain are uncertain, risks associated with long-term opioid use are clearer and significant. They had the best intentions."Next: conversations with local and state government leaders about addressing the opioid epidemic from both the supply and demand sides.

Medical use of prescription opioids linked to nonmedical use in adolescents
Adolescents who initiated nonmedical use of prescription opioids more commonly had previous medical use of prescriptions opioids rather than no exposure. Existing literature on the nonmedical use of prescription opioids (NUPO) is limited to regional data analysis and single time point analysis. Correlation between medical and nonmedical use of prescription opioids was stronger in males compared to females. In this study, researchers utilized national data to evaluate trends and correlations in the medical use of prescription opioids (MUPO) and NUPO in high school seniors between 1976 to 2015. As a result, there has been an increase in Marijuana-related prescription use disorders, emergency department visits, and overdose deaths.


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