The 2020 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine goes to the discoverers of the hepatitis C virus. There’s an effective cure but homelessness and the opioid epidemic are driving a surge in infections.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Opioid crisis
Displaying 21 - 40 of 78 articles
It’s not enough anymore for journalists to be mere watchdogs. Journalism must address subconscious social biases to give readers a fuller picture of what they need to know.
COVID-19 plagues an overtaxed opioid addiction treatment system.
The U.S. suicide rate has been increasing for decades. According to a sociologist who studies suicide, depression is just one factor among many implicated social conditions.
The overdose crisis — coupled with a lack of accessible harm reduction services — represents a growing concern for young queer and trans men who use drugs.
The crisis has made recovery more difficult for those with substance use disorders. The inability to get to support group meetings, stress and illness are just some of the factors.
Pharmacists are well positioned to provide communities with a lifesaving drug.
Aggressive marketing of prescription opioids by pharmaceutical companies provided doctors with scant information about potential harmful effects.
The Trump administration’s budget for healthcare proposes significant cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act.
In 2016, drug misuse was cited as the top concern among New Hampshire voters. What remedies are the Democratic primary contenders putting forward to combat the opioid crisis?
The government has tried to harness a profit-driven drug industry to serve public health before.
Treatments for opioid dependence, such as methadone and buprenorphine, are effective. But some people who stand to benefit are missing out.
Opioid overdoses killed 47,000 Americans in 2017 — more than gun violence. Many fewer would have died if they’d been treated with the life-saving drug naloxone, also called Narcan.
Institutions that benefited from donations from benefactors such as Epstein are facing hard questions. In a somewhat similar ethical debate in 1905, a pastor argued for return of a Rockefeller gift.
Previously secret documents and data make it clear that many companies engaged in the distribution of prescription painkillers either skirted or ignored their legal obligations for years.
In an era of rapid technological advance, devastating climate change, increasing inequality and a steadily aging society, health-care leadership development is vital.
The evidence is clear that newborn babies do better when they ‘room-in’ with their opioid-dependent mothers. So why are hospitals across Canada so slow to provide this recognized standard of care?
A policy response focused on reducing prescription opioids will not resolve North America’s opioid crisis. And it is hurting many adults who live with otherwise unbearable chronic pain.
The $270 million settlement may not mean a whole lot if Purdue files for bankruptcy as it’s reportedly considering.
There are limits to what charities can do now about past donors who are accused of morally reprehensible behavior.
Top contributors
-
Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management, York University, Canada
-
Associate Professor of History, University at Buffalo
-
Professor and Deputy Director, Monash Addiction Research Centre, Monash University
-
Medical Director of Opioid Policy Research, Brandeis University
-
Professor, Head of Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Ontario
-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, College of the Holy Cross
-
Professor of Law, Indiana University
-
PhD Candidate, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia
-
PhD Student, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
-
Co-Director, Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network and Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
-
Professor of Clinical Neurosciences and Foundation Chair in Physiotherapy, University of South Australia
-
PhD Candidate, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
-
Associate Professor of Population Health, New York University
-
Associate Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine; Weiner Hailey Family Professor, Tufts University
-
Assistant Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia
