August 21, 2017 Melissa Bailey Nothing seemed to help the patient — and the hospice staff didn’t know why. They sent home more painkillers for several weeks. But the elderly woman, who had severe dementia and incurable breast cancer, kept calling out in pain. The answer came when the woman’s daughter, who was taking care […]
Long-term Users Say They’re Hooked on Opioids
According to a recent poll conducted by the Washington Post and The Kaiser Family Foundation, at least one-third of Americans who have taken prescription opioids for two months or more say they have become addicted to the drugs. Among the respondents who are long-term users, all of them say they were introduced to the prescription […]
Surgeon General Calls for End of Opioid Crisis
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murphy recently released a landmark report that details the latest information on several public health crises in the country. In the report, Facing Addiction, Murphy lists drug and alcohol addiction alongside several other public health crises, and calls the current epidemic a “moral test” for America. According to the report, […]
