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Patients in their late teens and 20s had the highest risk of persistent use if they received opioids around the time of their extraction, a new study finds.
AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | The Crisis | University of MichiganA national opioid epidemic is driving people from pills to heroin, filling emergency rooms with overdose cases, and killing tens of thousands of Americans every year. What are we doing about it?
University Research | AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | The Crisis | Emory UniversityIn a study of pregnancy-associated deaths of women from 2007 to 2016, researchers found that mortality involving opioids either during pregnancy or up to one year post-pregnancy more than doubled during that time.
AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | The Crisis | Stony Brook University - The State University of New York“Within the opioid epidemic, there may be a hidden suicide epidemic,” Michigan State University researcher Jennifer Johnson said.
AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | The Crisis | Michigan State UniversityThere is a strong link between depression and opioid-related deaths, according to a new study.
AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | The Crisis | Purdue UniversityClose to 9,000 children and teens in the United States died from opioid poisonings over the last two decades, representing a nearly three-fold increase in mortality rates, Yale researchers said.
AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | The Crisis | Yale UniversityBoston Medical Center pediatrician Scott Hadland sees firsthand the effect prescription opioids are having on local youths. He says many adolescents he treats for opioid issues were introduced through prescription drugs.
AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | The Crisis | Boston UniversityThe number of opioid-related deaths in Michigan has hit an all-time high, requiring the resources of the state’s three major research universities and one of its largest health systems to tackle the problem.
AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | The Crisis | Michigan State UniversityIn the most comprehensive international comparison of its kind, a USC study found that the United States has the highest drug overdose death rates among high-income countries.
AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | The Crisis | University of Southern CaliforniaAs public health officials combat the opioid overdose epidemic, a study shows that drug manufacturers paid more than $46 million to more than 68,000 doctors over a 29-month period.
University Research | AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | The Crisis | Brown University