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Reducing Opioid-Related Deaths in the UK

Book
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Robust messages for the government from the UK’s official drug policy advisers: Ageing profile of multiply-ill heroin users will continue to press up drug-related deaths. To counteract this pressure government must maintain investment in...

Opioid Abuse Linked to Heroin Use

Scientific article
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New research published in the journal Addictive Behaviors has found the likelihood of 18- to 34-year-old nonmedical prescription opioid users having a prescription opioid use disorder has increased between 2002 – 2014. More specifically...

White House Eases Cap on Medication for Opioid Addiction

News
In the USA, Frontline report on changes in policy to allow doctors to issue more prescriptions for buprenorphine; new rules aimed at improving drug monitoring by federal prescribers treating Native Americans and military veterans