Decreased Funding of Opioid Addicted Children
Tens of thousands of infants born in the U.S. each year now have neonatal abstinence syndrome and longterm health effects from maternal opioid use during pregnancy. The funding to help these children is dissipating, and many families now are struggling to pay for resources to help their child. About NAS According to a government
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Researchers Reveal Opioid Birth Defects
The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology published a study by CDC researchers linking taking codeine, hydrocodone, or other opioid painkillers shortly before or early in pregnancy increases the risk of congenital heart defects and other opioid birth defects. As the rate of opioids use increases, the rate of birth defects from the painkillers is
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The Most Opioid Addicted States in the U.S.
For the past two decades, people using opioids is growing by the day. Therefore, opioid overdoses are rising, too. However, overdoses from opioid use are more prevalent in some states than others. Is your state on this list? About Opioids Opioids are a class of drugs that include the illegal drug known as heroin, and
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Opioids Cause Mental Birth Injuries
Pediatrics Journal has published the first big American study examining learning disabilities and other special education needs with children born with opioid-related symptoms. This link is especially important to examine as many women had no idea that opioid-use could cause long-term birth defects to their children. Opioid & Birth Defects Birth defects can cause
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Children and the Opioid Crisis
From infancy, children with parents abusing opioids put these kids immediately at risk. Besides prenatal exposure, parents become distracted by drugs and become unable to provide children with the necessities to succeed. While seeing opioids around the house, children and teens are susceptible to trying the medication. Then, these kids are more likely to misuse
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FDA Approves Lucemyra New Opioid Withdrawal Medication
The FDA has approved a new medication for helping with opioid withdrawal symptoms. Lucemyra can also help adults stop using opioids, however, the medication also comes with side effects. About Lucemyra Lucemyra helps those with opioid addiction by suppressing the neurochemical surge, which produces the painful symptoms of withdrawal. These symptoms can be aches, pains,
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Opioid Addiction & Pregnancy
Every day, it is estimated that 30 pregnant women addicted to opioids go to emergency rooms for treatment. Opioid addiction during pregnancy is a topic that many find it difficult to discuss and study. In fact, researchers fail to include pregnant women in opioid studies. However, a national survey on drug use and health estimates
Read MoreRising Cost of Opioid Overdose Hospitalization
In the past seven years, the cost of treating opioid overdose victims jumped 58%. In Boston, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center conducted a study finding that between 2009 and 2015, the average cost of care per opioid admission increased from $58,500 to $92,400 last year. Plus, ICU deaths doubled. Opioid overdoses can plummet patients and event
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Opioid Litigation Could be Heading to Trial
A judicial panel consolidated over 400 cases under U.S. District Judge Dan Polster in Cleveland in December 2017. In January 2018 during the first hearing, Judge Polster told lawyers that he intended to dispense with legal norms like discovery. He didn’t want to preside over years of finger-pointing and wanted to prepare for settlement discussions
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Opioid Overdose Causes Life Expectancy to Drop
The Journal of the Amercian Medical Association (JAMA) recently published a study that examined changes in life expectancy between the years 2000 and 2015 from drug poisoning. The study found that life expectancy overall increased from 76.8 years in 2000 to 78.8 years in 2015. However, drug poisoning mortality more than doubled in the United
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