The Opioid Epidemic: Expanding Access to Medicated Assisted Treatment

• By: Ellen Hoffman-Jeffrey, MS, CASAC-G, SAP, MAC, FDC, CAR VIP Community Services
• April 16th, 2020
• heroin use, medication-assisted treatment, opioid abuse, opioid epidemic, overdose deaths, prescription opioids, public health policy, substance use disorder
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The Researched Abuse, Diversion, and Addiction-Related Surveillance (RADARS) System describe the diversion and abuse of prescription opioid analgesics, using data from January 2002 through December 2013. Because drug abuse is an illegal activity that is often concealed from authorities, the RADARS...

Unintended Consequences: Are We Inadvertently Increasing Heroin Overdose Deaths?

• By: Richard Juman, PsyD TheFix.com
• July 1st, 2015
• addiction treatment, heroin use, opioid addiction, opioid epidemic, opioid prescribing, overdose deaths, prescription drug monitoring, prescription opioids
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Two years ago, The Fix spearheaded an effort to highlight the public health epidemic caused by the overprescribing of opioid pain medications which resulted in the tens of thousands of overdose deaths that were making front page news. The epidemic was iatrogenic- “caused by physicians”- in...