OPIOID EMPIDEMIC
Dental Work and Opioid Addiction
Dental work should not lead to opioid misuse. Yet, in increasing numbers, dental patients, particularly young patients, are being exposed to highly addictive opioid pain relievers, and it's causing them to experience life-threatening overdoses.
Justice for Drug Addicts
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, more than 130 people die from overdoses on opioid drugs every day. Such opioids include pharmaceutical pain relievers, heroin, fentanyl, and synthetic hybrid combinations of different opioid drugs.
How Rural America Became the Next Victim of the Opioid Epidemic
Addiction is not a new struggle. We’ve dealt with this problem as far back as the history books go, and probably further than that. Addiction is a difficult factor of human nature. It’s something that’s gnawed at us, silently, from the darkest corners of the deepest shadows for thousands of years.
The Addiction Epidemic, U.S. Politics and Our Way Out
When we examine a problem as big as drug and alcohol addiction across the U.S., we need to come at this from every angle possible. Drug and alcohol addiction in the U.S.
The Leading Cause of Accidental Death Is…
Drug overdose is now the leading cause of accidental death in the United States. In 2015, the number of overdose deaths surpassed the number of deaths from car accidents. The current opioid epidemic is the worst drug crisis in American history.
