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There is a silver lining in the fight against the opioid epidemic in the United States, the number of individuals with private insurance who receive these dangerous medicine prescriptions has decreased. Previous studies have shown a statewide decline in prescribing rates amid guidelines issued by governments, health systems, and insurers over the past ten years […]
According to experts from Northwestern Medicine in Chicago who examined patterns and applied a predictive model to identify areas where deaths would increase, the upcoming wave of opioid overdoses “will be worse than ever witnessed before.” Due to the dangerous practise of combining highly addictive opiates with other drugs, the number of opioid overdoses will […]
Experiments on rats indicate that the gadget blocks pain impulses by evaporative cooling. In the future, pain control might be much more relaxed thanks to a flexible electronic implant. The gadget surrounds nerves with an evaporative cooler and is made from materials that disintegrate in the body. Bioengineer John Rogers and colleagues report in the […]
According to research lead by Didier Jutras-Aswad, professor of psychiatry and addictology at the University of Montréal, there is now new evidence suggesting a more flexible form of care than methadone can be just as successful in treating opioid use disorder. Between January 2016 and December 2021, there were a total of 29,052 deaths that […]
