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  • Can Weed Cure America's Opioid Epidemic?

    April 18, 2017 |

    Motherboard |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Opioid addiction runs rampant in the United States. However, researchers are becoming more convinced that cannabis can help prevent opioid abuse from even happening. In states where cannabis is legal the rate of opioid overdose is lower than states where cannabis is banned.

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  • The California Doctors Who Found a Way to Quit Overprescribing Opioids

    March 08, 2017 |

    Kaiser Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    In 2009 Kaiser Permanente doctors, alarmed by the rising rate of opioids being prescribed to patients, decided to develop a set of strategies and lower painkiller prescriptions. The most difficult one, is talking to patients about the dangers of opiods. He “developed what he calls The Difficult Pain Conversation—and he presented his approach to many other doctors.” So far, its had an effect. Prescriptions dropped from “from 2,500 a month to almost zero.”

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  • Baltimore turns to a life-saving opioid overdose antidote, but it's no cure for the crisis

    March 01, 2017 |

    PBS NewsHour |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    In Maryland, people are being trained to administer naloxone, the drug that can save people from an opioid overdose, in order to combat the opioid crisis. Some people are even trained on street corners. Already 20,000 people have been trained, and more states are following suit.

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  • Injecting Drugs, Under a Watchful Eye

    January 18, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Tacoma, Washington

    America is facing an epidemic of overdose deaths from opioids. Giving users a supervised place and clean needles increases use of treatment and saves lives, though it is a controversial response.

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  • In Plymouth County, a drug program finds success tackling the opioid crisis head on

    January 12, 2017 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Plymouth, Massachusetts

    In Plymouth County, a program called Project Outreach is tackling the opioid epidemic by partnering with rehabilitation facilities and law enforcement. They are targeting people when they are still in the hospital after an overdose and offering them treatment options. If a person refuses treatment, a police officer and a rehabilitation specialist will still visit them within 24 hours to give the person more information and attempt to convince them to seek treatment, even if that doesn't mean going into an inpatient treatment facility.

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  • As opioid-related deaths continue to rise, should more doctors practice medication-assisted treatment in primary care?

    December 26, 2016 |

    The Trentonian |

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    Response Location: United States, Trenton, New Jersey

    As the US attempts to recover and learn from an opioid epidemic, often rehab or detox are the only solutions discussed when research says medication-assisted treatment is by far the most effective. Henry J. Austin Health Center in Trenton is the only facility in the county that provides medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction in a primary care setting.

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  • Boulder's Elkhorn Treatment Center: 'Silver bullet' for women fighting addiction

    December 11, 2016 |

    The Montana Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, Boulder, Montana

    The Montana prison system operates a pair of men's and women's treatment facilities that provide an intensive, nine-month treatment program for methamphetamine and opioid abuse that has shown high rates of success. Residents are seen not simply as prisoners or people with addiction, but as people needing empathy and life lessons in accountability and honesty. Therapy groups allow patients to share their stories of trauma. Various studies have shown the treatment centers have successfully graduated 75-95% of their patients.

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  • This drug can break opioid addiction. Why aren't we using it?

    December 07, 2016 |

    Mother Jones |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Opioid addiction has increased throughout the United States. A clinic in San Francisco has been offering an opioid replacement drug called buphrenorphine to help wean addicts away from opioids. The clinic’s success at healing addicts has served as a model for clinics in other cities around the country.

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  • Baltimore Explores a Bold Solution to Fight Heroin Addiction

    September 01, 2016 |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    There exists an antidote, naloxone, to opioid drug overdoses but only doctors have naloxone and drug addicts overdose in the street. In Baltimore, where more people die of drug overdoses than there are people murdered, a doctor at the George Washington University Hospital created a blanket subscription for naloxone so that anyone could buy the drug and save lives.

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  • California Court Helps Kids By Healing Parents' Addictions

    August 24, 2016 |

    Kaiser Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    Signs indicate that a recent surge in the number of children entering the foster system is related to the opioid epidemic. Using the power of keeping families in tact as motivation, the Early Intervention Family Drug Court in Sacramento County works with addicted parents to receive comprehensive early addiction intervention in an attempt to prevent their children from being entered into the foster system.

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