Clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness of simulated treatment strategies for injection drug use-linked IE compared in modeling study
Additional benefits include reductions in opioid dosing, emotional distress, and opioid craving
Sacklers will pay as much as $6 billion to assist communities harmed by the opioid crisis
Money will be used in efforts to reverse the damage of the opioid crisis
Among U.S. adult prescription opioid users, 9.2 percent also prescribed dual anxiolytic/sedative therapy
Instead of paying out $4.5 billion, the company is now offering $6 billion to settle the slew of lawsuits
From 2007 to 2019, opioid-stimulant deaths among Black people increased at more than three times the rate of White people
Proposed changes dovetail with a nationwide epidemic of opioid use and overdose deaths
Stanford–Lancet Commission on the North American Opioid Crisis formed to address the opioid crisis in the United States and Canada
In response to the incident, Hartford officials pledged to ensure that all city schools are stocked with naloxone