What is the opioid crisis? / Sarah E. Ludwig -- The history and potential future of the opioid crisis / Amie L. Severino, Arash Shadfar, Joshua K. Hakimian, Oliver Crane, Ganeev Singh, Keith Heinzerling, and Wendy M. Walwyn -- Drug consumption facilities can provide a better solution to the opioid epidemic / Jarrett Zigon -- From opioids to heroin: how patients transition to heroin / Chris McGreal -- Many of the opioids hitting the streets come from criminal labs in China / Kathleen McLaughlin -- Despite what many believe, doctors are not the cause of the opioid crisis / Sally Satel -- Opioids cannot be the ultimate solution in pain treatment / Timothy J. Atkinson, Jennifer H. Scruggs and Tracey L. Perkins -- As cases of opioid addiction increase, so do cases of sex trafficking / Kristin Detrow -- Analyzing how the opioid crisis affects different groups can lead to its solution / Paola Scommegna -- Pill mills are putting patients at risk and letting them fall through the cracks / Malia Cole -- What does declaring the opioid crisis a public health emergency entail? / Greg Allen and Amita Kelly -- Efforts to make naloxone widely available are more difficult than anticipated / Jake Harper.
Summary:
"Opioids are pain relievers that include legal drugs like morphine, fentanyl, and oxycodone and illegal drugs like heroin. In 2017, the US Department of Health and Human Services declared the opioid epidemic a public health crisis after 42,249 people in the United States died of opioid overdoses in 2016. Opioid prescription has been on the rise since the 1990s, when pharmaceutical companies asserted that the pain relievers were not addictive, though the tragic consequences have proven otherwise. This volume explores the history of the opioid crisis and solutions that have been proposed to fight this increasingly deadly epidemic."-- Provided by publisher.
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