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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America is a 2018 non-fiction book by American author Beth Macy.The book covers the origin and evolution of the opioid epidemic in the United States beginning primarily with the 1996 release of the drug OxyContin, and examines its effects on small town America and the Appalachian region in particular.
Heroin's oral bioavailability is both dose-dependent (as is morphine's) and significantly higher than oral use of morphine itself, reaching up to 64.2% for high doses and 45.6% for low doses; opiate-naive users showed far less absorption of the drug at low doses, having bioavailabilities of only up to 22.9%. The maximum plasma concentration of ...
Last month, President Obama pledged $1.1 billion in funding to fight Americans' abuse of heroin -- and these shocking statistics explain why.
The opioid epidemic, also referred to as the opioid crisis, is the rapid increase in the overuse, misuse/abuse, and overdose deaths attributed either in part or in whole to the class of drugs called opiates/opioids since the 1990s. It includes the significant medical, social, psychological, demographic and economic consequences of the medical ...
America's heroin epidemic is being overtaken by another deadly drug addiction: fentanyl. Fentanyl is an opioid painkiller 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine.
There were fewer than 3,000 overdose deaths in 1979, when a heroin epidemic was raging in U.S. cities. There were fewer than 5,000 recorded in 1988, around the height of the crack epidemic. More than 64,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year [2016], according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [66]
He originally was looking for a non-addictive alternative to morphine. Heroin was sold by Bayer Laboratories to doctors as a 'sedative for coughs' in 1898 after it was re-synthesized by chemist ...
Between 2000 and 2014 there was an "alarming increase in heroin use across the country and an epidemic of drug overdose deaths". [ 244 ] [ 218 ] [ 245 ] As a result, health care organizations and public health groups, such as Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing, have called for decreases in the prescription of opioids. [ 244 ]