People all over the world have been affected by the opioid health crisis. From 1999-2018, almost 450,000 people died from an overdose involving prescription opiates, heroin, fentanyl, or other opioids. About 47,000 people die from opioid overdoses each year in…
Image from Yahoo Finance The United States is currently fighting two epidemics. First, the global coronavirus pandemic that started in 2019 (COVID-19), which has led to 19.5 million cases globally and 720,000+ deaths to date. Of these, 4.9 million cases…
Opioid overdoses are in decline for the first time in years. Would you know it from looking at your community? In some states—places like Alabama, Connecticut, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Nebraska, and West Virginia—Opioid Use Disorder…
At a time when most news about the opioid crisis seems to be bad, a recent study may be a cause for hope. The January 2019 study by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) indicates that opioid overdose deaths in…
