UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA IMAGE: BARBARA “BASIA” ANDRAKA-CHRISTOU IS AN EXPERT IN HEALTH SERVICES, HEALTH POLICY AND SUBSTANCE-USE DISORDER TREATMENT. PHOTO CREDIT: BLAKE OSTING CREDIT: PHOTO CREDIT: BLAKE OSTING, UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA By Danielle Hendrix ’15 ORLANDO, July 13, 2023 – In 2021, more people died from opioid overdoses in the U.S. than any other...
by Michel Morris, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have found that increasing the use of evidence-based medications — therapeutic drugs proven by scientific evidence — may significantly improve care for those with opioid dependence. Credit: Public domain image Unintentional overdoses are the leading cause of death for Americans under 50, with...
by Neil Schoenherr, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis With more than 2 million Americans suffering from an opioid use disorder and the escalating rate of deaths from opioidoverdoses reaching about 130 per day, efforts to date have had little impact in curbing this crisis across the country. As a result, a committee of the National Academies...
Opioid dependence can begin as early as the first five days of use. This is what a recently published study in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report has revealed. What Are Opioids? Opioids are a type of narcotic analgesic drug prescribed for the management of moderate to severe levels of pain that common pain...
With an epidemic of addiction to opioid painkillers on the rise, researchers say they’ve found an alternative for pain relief from an unlikely source – a small snail found in the Caribbean Sea. Scientists from the University of Utah say the little cone snail Conus regius produces a venom that blocks a pain pathway different from the...
