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If You Need Pain Pills, Politicians Want To Monitor Your Body Chemistry

Our political leaders envision a future in which high-tech implants snitch about our use of painkillers.

Reason

Is fentanyl coming to London?

It kills tens of thousands of Americans every year, but the toll from fentanyl and other lab-made opioids could be about to get much worse. Gavin Haynes explains why a global heroin shortage could spark a US-style drugs crisis on British shores

Evening Standard

UK study helps counties most impacted by substance use disorder with access to treatment and educat

Thursday marked International Overdose Awareness Day. The Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy says more than 2,100 Kentuckians died last year because of an overdose – a five percent decrease from the year prior. 90 percent of those deaths were from opioids.

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‘Please ask for my help!’: a Chicago taskforce tries to save lives from deadly fentanyl

The West Side heroin/opioid taskforce is confronting the growing overdose crisis among the city’s Black population

The Guardian - US

Netflix’s ‘Painkiller’ doesn’t tell the full story of prescription opioids

The six-part miniseries vividly portrays Purdue Pharma’s reckless marketing of OxyContin. But it dismisses the caveat: that there are legitimate medical uses for this drug and other prescription opioids.

Chicago Sun-Times

Caring for people with fentanyl addiction often means treating terrible wounds

The fentanyl-additive Xylazine causes open wounds, making the illegal drug supply even more dangerous and treatment more complicated

WEKU

Cannabis Linked to Decreased Use of Opioids: This Week in Cannabis Investing

A federally funded study found that cannabis can help reduce opioid cravings and abuse.

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Only 1 in 5 people with opioid addiction get the medications to treat it, study finds

Overdose deaths from fentanyl and other opioids have surged but medications that could save thousands of lives "are sitting on the shelf unused," according to new research.

WEKU

Top Texas A&M officials were involved in botched recruiting of journalism professor, who will receive $1 million settlement

A new internal report, conducted by the university system’s office of general counsel, also looked into Texas A&M’s decision to temporarily suspend a respected opioids expert after she was accused of criticizing Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in a lecture.

The Texas Tribune

Suspended Texas A&M professor denies saying Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick believes overdose victims “deserve to die”

Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham alleged Wednesday that opioids expert Joy Alonzo told students in a guest lecture that “Your Lt. Governor says those kids deserve to die.” Alonzo denied the claims.

The Texas Tribune

Opioids and cocaine are a deadly combination – and 'polydrug' deaths are rising

Drug deaths in the US involving both opioids and cocaine have increased dramatically in the past decade, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The Conversation

Texas A&M suspended professor accused of criticizing Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in lecture

The professor, an expert on the opioids crisis, was placed on paid administrative leave and investigated, raising questions about the extent of political interference in higher education, particularly in health-related matters.

The Texas Tribune

Ethiopians dying in agony due to lack of opioids while west battles a surfeit

Poor countries get 1% of global supply … to treat half the world’s people. In Ethiopia, a new initiative has begun, but too late for those suffering without oral morphine

The Guardian - UK

Myths about will power and moral weakness keep people with opioid use disorder from receiving effective medications like methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone

The most effective science-based treatment for opioid use disorder is medication. Methadone and buprenorphine prevent intense cravings and other symptoms of withdrawal, while naltrexone works by blocking the effects of opioids.

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Scientists Discover Way To Activate Brain Cells To Inhibit Drug Addiction

Understanding role of specific brain cells in the urge for opioids offers avenue for interventions aimed at curbing addiction

Tribune News Service

Once-resistant rural court officials begin to embrace medications to treat addiction

DANDRIDGE, Tenn. — Rachel Solomon and judges hadn’t been on the best of terms. Then Judge O. Duane Slone “dumbfounded” her.

Newsroom.co.nz

When pain relief becomes an addiction

Because opioids are a prescribed drug, many may not be aware of the problems that can arise with long-term use, warns Carina Walters

WEKU

Opioids are overrated for some common back pain, a study suggests

New research calls into question prescribing the drugs even for short-term pain relief – especially given the risk of addiction.

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Opioids don't relieve acute low back or neck pain – and can result in worse pain, new study finds

Opioids are the one of the most prescribed pain-relief for people with low back and neck pain. In Australia, around 40% of people with low back and neck pain who present to their GP and 70% of people with low back pain who visit a hospital emergency department are prescribed…

Evening Standard

Fresh inquests ordered into the deaths of three patients at scandal-hit hospital

A probe found hundreds of patients had their lives cut short by opioids at the Gosport War Memorial Hospital

The Independent UK

Struggling with a drug crisis, San Francisco wants Narcan available at every pharmacy

San Francisco could become the first city in the country to require every pharmacy within its boundaries to always carry naloxone, a drug that reverses overdoses caused by fentanyl and other opioids

Tribune News Service

An illegal psychedelic could change how KY treats opioid addiction. It’s not without risk

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Jessica Blackburn didn’t know she was addicted to opioids until her body’s first withdrawal.

The Guardian - US

The fourth leading cause of death in the US? Cumulative poverty

We hear so much about crime rates, opioids, and gun violence in America, but so little from our elected leaders about the poverty crisis

Salon

Paxton tied to troubled businessman

Paxton worked to connect Kenny Hansmire with state comptroller, who oversees millions in opioid settlement money

Chicago Sun-Times

Why more doctors are prescribing muscle relaxers

To combat the surge in opioid deaths, some doctors are prescribing these drugs rather than opioids because they pose fewer risks and have less chance of dependency.

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