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Exploring America’s Opioid Epidemic
Posted by Sandy Thompson
Chances are you or someone you know has been prescribed opioids. Opioids are any number of substances, legal or otherwise, used to alleviate moderate to severe pain. If you’ve ever incurred a serious injury or are recovering from surgery, your doctor more than likely handed you a prescription for this medicine with a specific set of guidelines on when and how to take them. When used properly, opioids are an effective and generally safe method for short-term management of more serious types of pain—they reduce suffering and invoke a level of sedation to help patients keep their minds off the pain. Recently, though, opioids have become much more accessible to patients, and it has been found that long-term use can have some dangerously dire repercussions, including addiction, overdose, and death. In fact, as of 2016, it has been found that half of Americans know someone who is addicted to opioids. And that’s just prescription painkillers; outside of the doctor&rsq...
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