Tag: Opiods

Health

Opioid epidemic: Pushed away from prescription drugs

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The world of health has been turned upside down over the past few decades. Doctors had been derided for not prescribing enough pain-relief medicine back in the 1980s. Pain control had become so important that the world of health even saw fit to add a fifth indicator of health. The...

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Dilemmas continue in search of solutions to opioid crisis

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October 21 the headline read, “Four major drug firms reached a $260M settlement with two Ohio counties [for liability in the national opioid crisis].” Public companies bear a duty to maximize the company’s profits, referred to as their fiduciary responsibility. No CEO could get away with intentionally-reducing sales or lowering...

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Opioid deaths take downward turn: State Health

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By Rebecca Anzel – Illinois is showing progress toward the State Department of Public Health’s three-year goal of reducing opioid deaths by one-third by 2020, an official told State senators Monday in Springfield. That initiative was set by former Republican Party governor Bruce Rauner’s administration in an action plan implemented...

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