Trump opioid. Medical search. Frequent questions

First Lady Melania Trump on Tuesday was greeted with loud, sustained boos during the B'More Youth Summit on Opioid Awareness in Baltimore, a city President Donald Trump recently smeared as a 'disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. (commondreams.org)
The Drug Enforcement Agency proposed Monday to cut its quota for pharmaceutical opioids by some 169 million pills in 2019, following a call by President Donald Trump to slash production to combat the drug epidemic . (freebeacon.com)
Although President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency in October, his administration has yet to take necessary steps to help those fighting addiction - including one critical, cost-free step, two experts argue in a jointly written op-ed in The Washington Post . (beckershospitalreview.com)
President Donald Trump declared America's opioid crisis a public health emergency on Thursday, after sending mixed signals on the issue for the past three months. (vox.com)
When President Donald Trump appointed Kellyanne Conway as his new point person on the opioid epidemic, eyes rolled for perhaps the thousandth time since Inauguration Day. (dailydot.com)
President Donald Trump speaks at the Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit on April 24, 2019 in Atlanta. (kunc.org)
When then-presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke in Manchester, N.H ., a week before the 2016 election, he said the opioid crisis was destroying lives and shattering families. (kunc.org)
President Donald Trump will direct his Department of Health and Human Services to declare the opioid crisis a nationwide public health emergency under the Public Health Service Act. (fox13news.com)
Donald Trump has talked a good game about fighting the opioid epidemic in the United States, but Democrats are actually putting funding toward the effort. (politicususa.com)
In 2016, Donald Trump captured 68 percent of the vote in West Virginia, a state hit hard by opioid overdoses. (whyy.org)
When we look at the two maps, there was a clear overlap between counties that had high opioid use … and the vote for Donald Trump," says Dr. James S. Goodwin , chair of geriatrics at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and the study's lead author. (whyy.org)
The White House 's Commission on Opioid , a panel that studies the opioid epidemic in the U.S., was created in March 2017 by Donald Trump who appointed Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey to head it. (blastingnews.com)
The bill's passage comes a year after President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a national emergency. (apainc.org)
In this Oct. 26, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump speaks during an event to declare the opioid crisis a national public health emergency in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (insider.com)
President Donald Trump speaks about his plan to combat opioid drug addiction at Manchester Community College on March 19, 2018, in New Hampshire. (medscape.com)
WASHINGTON DC - JANUARY 10: U.S. President Donald Trump signs a bipartisan bill to stop the flow of opioids into the United States in the Oval Office of the White House on January 10, 2018 in Washington, DC. (newstalk1290.com)
CHERRY HILL, N.J. (AP) - Governors of both parties are calling on Congress and President Donald Trump's administration to provide more federal money and improve coordination to deal with America's deadly opioid crisis. (newstalk1290.com)

Flanked by lawmakers and first lady Melania Trump, President Trump participates in a bill signing to dedicate more resources to fight the opioid crisis during an East Room event at the White House Wednesday. (npr.org)
Medical groups have hailed buprenorphine as a lifesaving treatment, particularly as the opioid crisis has accelerated during the coronavirus pandemic. (breitbart.com)
Some doctors credited some of Trump's policies to combat the opioid crisis, namely "strict border control," for the drop in lethal overdoses linked to the drug. (breitbart.com)
Trump warned that coronavirus-related lockdowns, largely backed by Democrats, would fuel a spike in overdoses and derail the fragile progress his administration made combatting the crisis, one of the former president's top priorities. (breitbart.com)
1. Dr. Wen and Mr. Weissman both say the one thing the Trump administration can do to ease the opioid crisis is to use existing legal authority to cut prices for the opioid overdose antidote naloxone. (beckershospitalreview.com)
Trump won't direct any new federal money to the opioid crisis, per administration officials. (vox.com)
For public health officials, doctors, and treatment advocates on the ground in states hardest hit by the epidemic, the federal government - under both the Obama and Trump administrations - has been slow to respond to America's deadliest drug crisis, which killed a record 64,000 Americans last year. (vox.com)
Hard-hit states like New Hampshire and West Virginia have already had mixed experiences with the government's response to the opioid crisis: They've gotten much less help than states with lower death rates. (vox.com)
Trump's declaration Thursday will do several things, including letting states shift federal funds dedicated for HIV to also deal with opioid addiction, allow the US Department of Health and Human Services dedicate more staff to the addiction crisis, and let patients use telemedicine to get medication-assisted treatment like methadone or buprenorphine. (vox.com)
An analysis of what Trump has done around the crisis so far, from messaging to staffing, leaves very little to admire. (dailydot.com)
These reforms will also support our response to the terrible crisis of opioid and drug addiction. (dailydot.com)
Even if border security could stem the flow of drugs, there would still be the actual issues of the crisis to contend with, like the fact that only 10 percent of opioid addicts currently receive adequate treatment . (dailydot.com)
The opioid crisis is indeed a public health menace. (prospect.org)
It's well known that the opioid crisis has ripped through rural and low-income white communities. (prospect.org)
The opioid crisis demands attention. (prospect.org)
President Trump declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency. (kunc.org)
Before coronavirus hit, opioids were widely viewed as the nation's top public health crisis. (kunc.org)
Trump will deliver a speech Thursday on fighting the opioid crisis. (fox13news.com)
Luckily, on this issue, Democrats have stepped up to the plate and are trying to put billions of dollars toward a public health crisis that deserves more than just the usual Trump lip service. (politicususa.com)
P resident Trump blamed hardened criminals, pharmaceutical companies, Mexico and China for the opioid crisis in a White House address Thursday, reaching for the same targets he's long used for other problems. (time.com)
Trump Revealed His Plan to Deal With the Opioid Crisis. (time.com)
was blamed in media reports for sponsoring a bill that the Drug Enforcement Administration had warned would hamper its ability to limit America's deadly opioid crisis. (upr.org)
Marino is stepping back days after reports that legislation he sponsored hindered the Drug Enforcement Administration in its fight against the U.S. opioid crisis. (upr.org)
A joint report by The Washington Post and 60 Minutes found that Marino's measure "helped pump more painkillers into parts of the country that were already in the middle of the opioid crisis," as NPR's Kelly McEvers said earlier this week. (upr.org)
In its preliminary report about the opioid crisis, President Trump's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis said in August that "with approximately 142 Americans dying every day, America is enduring a death toll equal to Sept. 11 every three weeks. (upr.org)
The Trump administration's top health official backed away from a presidential commission's proposal to declare a national public health emergency to address the opioid crisis. (wkyufm.org)
The top recommendation from President Trump's commission on the opioid crisis was for the president to declare the opioid crisis a national public health emergency. (wkyufm.org)
As emergency physicians, we see every day the devastating effects that the opioid crisis has had on the communities we serve-a crisis that has unfortunately only worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic," Mark Rosenberg, president of ACEP, said in a statement Thursday. (iowapublicradio.org)
The opioid epidemic is a crisis for rural Missourians and urban Missourians, it's a crisis for rich Missourians and poor Missourians and it's a crisis that doesn't care whether you're a Republican or a Democrat. (senate.gov)
President Trump's announcement today is a much-needed step to fight the opioid epidemic that's ravaging Missouri communities, but it's critically important that it's paired with additional resources to help tackle this crisis. (senate.gov)
McCaskill launched the most comprehensive Congressional investigation into the opioid crisis to date earlier this year, requesting documents from opioid manufacturers and distributors . (senate.gov)
At the same time, the Trump White House appears to be approaching key aspects of the country's opioid crisis, which contributed mightily to a record 64,000 drug overdose deaths in 2016 , with a mixture of indifference and incompetence. (nationalmemo.com)
Instead of proactive responses aimed at ameliorating the crisis, Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions are falling back on drug war rhetoric that would have been at home in Nixon's 1970s or Reagan's 1980s. (nationalmemo.com)
Trump spent barely a minute talking about the opioid crisis in his State of the Union speech last week, and now he says he's focused on law enforcement, not treatment and prevention. (nationalmemo.com)
In October 2017, President Trump declared the opioid crisis a national public health emergency - but beyond that initial announcement, the administration has done relatively little to actually address the epidemic. (americanoversight.org)
On Oct. 26, 2017, Trump directed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to declare the opioid crisis a public health emergency. (americanoversight.org)
Months later, news reports suggested that little action had actually been taken to address the opioid crisis and no policies had been implemented to ease barriers to substance abuse treatment by telemedicine. (americanoversight.org)
In September 2019, nearly two years after declaring a state of emergency, the Trump administration committed $1.8 billion in grants to tackle the opioid crisis. (americanoversight.org)
Opioid Crisis? (motherjones.com)
EDMONTON - The Alberta government has introduced updated legislation that it says would help make sure anyone who contributed to the opioid addiction crisis is held responsible. (yahoo.com)
President Trump issued a call for action after his commission on the nation's opioid addiction crisis reported its policy recommendations. (acwi.org)
We are currently dealing with the worst drug crisis in American history," Trump declared. (acwi.org)
Reacting to the report, Trump signed an order declaring that the opioid crisis is now officially a nationwide public health emergency. (acwi.org)
In the United States, the opioid epidemic (also known as the opioid crisis) is an extensive, ongoing overuse of opioid medications, both from medical prescriptions and illegal sources. (wikipedia.org)
The county's opioid-linked death rate over that period paralleled the nation's as the crisis moved from pain pills to heroin to even more potent fentanyl. (nwahomepage.com)
The opioid crisis has hit communities big and small, rural and urban, in states red and blue. (apainc.org)
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., have proposed committing $100 billion over 10 years to fighting the opioid crisis. (apainc.org)
The White House Opioid Commission will recommend on Wednesday that drug courts be established in every federal judicial district in an effort to combat the opioid crisis, according to a draft report obtained by STAT News . (insider.com)
This crisis is real, and it is a real wake‑up call for individuals who have opioids or fentanyl in their homes," Adams said. (wivb.com)
UPDATED March 20, 2018 // In a wide-ranging speech outlining his latest plan of attack on the opioid crisis, President Donald J. Trump emphasized the need for stricter law enforcement and the interruption of the drug supply. (medscape.com)
The president spent much of the 40-plus-minute speech discussing law enforcement strategies that he said would help stop the opioid crisis, including building a wall on the border with Mexico to keep drugs from entering the United States, denying funding to so-called sanctuary cities that shield undocumented immigrants from federal action, and beefing up criminal penalties for those involved in selling opioids. (medscape.com)
He then noted that his own President's Commission on Combatting Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis had made 65 recommendations that he said his administration had "worked aggressively to put into action. (medscape.com)
Following his remarks, other administration officials talked about the opioid crisis, including Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar. (c-span.org)

There is every reason to do so: Nearly 130 Americans die of opioid overdoses on an average day, and a bipartisan bill has already been proposed, with plans for reintroduction. (breitbart.com)
After rising for 28 years and following a massive death spike under the Obama-Biden administration, the number of overdoses dropped during the pre-coronavirus pandemic Trump-era. (breitbart.com)
During a speech last week declaring opioid addiction a national public health emergency, President Trump made the extraordinary claim that 64,000 American lives were lost last year due to drug overdoses. (prospect.org)
In 2017 - Trump's first year in office - more than 42,000 Americans died from overdoses linked to heroin, fentanyl and prescription opioids, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . (kunc.org)
Trump declared a public health emergency in October 2017, noting that overdoses had joined gun violence and car crashes as a leading cause of death in America. (kunc.org)
But in 2019, the number of overdoses surged again to a new record with more than 50,000 opioid-related fatalities. (kunc.org)
During a panel discussion in late July, Giroir described recent increases in opioid overdoses as "a nightmare," adding that "all the progress that we made has been reversed and this is even before the pandemic. (kunc.org)
Earlier in the year, Arizona's Department of Health began tracking opioid overdoses in real time. (fox13news.com)
Since June 1, there have been 471 suspected opioid deaths, and nearly 3,600 suspected overdoses. (fox13news.com)
In its interim report, the commission made reference to the fact that 142 American citizens die every day because of overdoses of opioids . (blastingnews.com)
In fact, between the year 2000 and 2015, more than 500,000 Americans died from drug overdoses , with opioids causing a majority of deaths . (blastingnews.com)
and it requested that states create avenues for standing orders so that any person can obtain naloxone (which is a very important drug that has the ability to reverse overdoses of opioid). (blastingnews.com)
This may seem like a trivial technicality, but when Christopher Ruhm, a public policy and economics professor at the University of Virginia, used computer modeling based on things like age, sex, race, and location to predict the proportion of those so-called "unspecified" overdoses that involved opioids, the overall number of opioid overdoses nationally jumped by more than 20 percent-from 28,647 in 2014 to 35,624. (motherjones.com)
From 1999 to 2020, nearly 841,000 people died from drug overdoses, with prescription and illicit opioids responsible for 500,000 of those deaths. (wikipedia.org)
More than 650,000 Americans have died of drug overdoses since the opioid epidemic began. (wikipedia.org)
Narcan can potentially reverse the effects of overdoses from opioids, including fentanyl. (kron4.com)
But it faces an uphill battle in syringe service for West Virginia, the U.S. state with the highest rate of opioid overdoses. (wfla.com)
Opioid overdoses killed so many people in the past year that Connecticut's forensic examiners ran out of cooler space for the bodies. (ctmirror.org)
Studies have shown that young people are increasingly dying from unintentional drug overdoses, with opioids now the most common substances contributing to fatal poisonings among young children. (wivb.com)

The reductions in opioid production are in response to President Trump's " Safer Prescribing Plan . (freebeacon.com)
Or did some White House officials simply realize that Trump's fudging of the numbers on gun and motor vehicle deaths and comparing those figures to the numbers of opioid deaths was flat out wrong? (prospect.org)
An Obama-era law that designated a billion dollars to help states fight opioids runs out of money this year, with no sign Trump intends to ask Congress to renew it, and Trump's 2018 budget request has a $400 million cut to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the lead federal agency for treatment. (nationalmemo.com)
President Donald Trump's opioid commission plans to recommend that drug courts be established in every federal judicial district. (insider.com)

With the nation reeling from an epidemic of drug overdose deaths, President Trump signed legislation Wednesday that is aimed at helping people overcome addiction and preventing addictions before they start. (npr.org)
After France eliminated a similar regulation, the number of patients receiving buprenorphine increased tenfold, and opioid overdose deaths dropped by 80% in four years. (breitbart.com)
Fentanyl, which is prescribed primarily to cancer patients for whom other opioids are insufficient, was responsible for nearly 30,000 deaths in 2017. (freebeacon.com)
There was a leveling off in prescription opioid overdose deaths when the number of prescriptions began to decline. (freebeacon.com)
There is a weak but positive relationship between the rate of opioid prescriptions in a given state/year and the rate of prescription opioid overdose deaths. (freebeacon.com)
Analysis indicates that one fewer opioid prescription per 100 people means approximately 0.04 fewer deaths per 100,000 people. (freebeacon.com)
The weakness of this relationship-minimal, even if positive-combined with the fact that prescription opioid deaths do not seem to be falling, suggests that cutting the number of drugs may not be the best policy response to the drug epidemic. (freebeacon.com)
Still, there seemed to be some success, with opioid deaths dipping slightly in 2018. (kunc.org)
Researchers also say fentanyl has continued to spread fast , despite interdiction efforts, contributing to more overdose deaths in the western United States where the synthetic opioid had been scarce. (kunc.org)
As The Hill report noted, "President Trump declared the opioid epidemic a national public health emergency" last month, but it amounted to nothing more than rhetoric and "didn't free up millions of dollars to fight the increasing rate of opioid overdose deaths. (politicususa.com)
Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia have some of the nation's highest rates of addiction and overdose deaths due to heroin, synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, and abuse of prescription opioids such as oxycodone. (wkyufm.org)
The Trump administration's decision to relax rules regarding the prescription of buprenorphine comes as record-level drug overdose deaths occurred in the U.S. in the 12 months ending in June 2020. (iowapublicradio.org)
While the category include all drug overdose deaths, the CDC says the increase is largely driven by synthetic opioids. (iowapublicradio.org)
This action comes as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported record increases in deaths involving opioids. (americanoversight.org)
The CDC numbers are likely undercounting opioid deaths by thousands, and some estimate that the drug-use data falls short by hundreds of thousands. (motherjones.com)
JUST THE NEWS) - Researchers are warning that the United States is facing its most significant spike in opioid deaths as patients increasingly mix synthetic pain pills with stimulants such as cocaine and methamphetamines. (wnd.com)
Across Canada, there were more than 38,000 suspected opioid-related deaths between January 2016 and March 2023. (yahoo.com)
of those deaths, 47,600 involved an opioid. (wikipedia.org)
From 1999 through 2020, 131 deaths in the county were attributed to opioids. (nwahomepage.com)
And yet a recent report found Michigan suffers a critical shortage of doctors certified to prescribe the drug, even as opioid deaths continue to rise. (bridgemi.com)
Meanwhile, the toll of the opioid epidemic continues to mount as the state's opiate death rate ranked 10th worst among states in 2016, at 18.5 deaths per 100,000 people. (bridgemi.com)
Synthetic opioids that are difficult to detect are increasingly being found in pills and heroin and are responsible for an increase in overdose deaths. (apainc.org)
New York City, like much of the country, has seen rising levels of opioid-related deaths, with the vast majority of fatalities now attributed to Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that can be more than 50 times stronger than heroin. (wivb.com)
That state has been on the leading edge of the opioid problem, although the rate of drug overdose deaths appears to be slowing, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (medscape.com)
It comes less than three months after Trump declared a public health emergency to deal with the epidemic of addictions and deaths associated with opioids, a group of drugs that includes prescription painkillers, heroin and fentanyl. (newstalk1290.com)
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released troubling statistics on the growing epidemic of drug and opioid overdose deaths in the United States. (cdc.gov)
While it is unknown how many drug and opioid overdose deaths are associated with workplace injuries and illnesses, it is clear that this national epidemic is impacting workers and employers. (cdc.gov)

Trump signed legislation in 2018 that boosted federal funding for drug treatment. (kunc.org)
On Aug. 31, 2018, Trump officials officially informed Walmart that the DOJ would decline to prosecute the company, according to a letter from Walmart's lawyer that lays out the chronology of the case. (nationofchange.org)
In 2018, British Columbia filed a proposed class-action lawsuit on behalf of Ottawa, the provinces and territories against more than 40 opioid makers and distributors. (yahoo.com)
In 2018, the U.S. opioid prescription rate was 51.4 prescriptions per 100 people, equivalent to more than 168 million total opioid prescriptions. (wikipedia.org)
Also, in 2018, after being prescribed an opioid medication, about 10.3 million people ended up misusing it, and 47,600 people died from an overdose. (wikipedia.org)
2018-03-22T13:47:27-04:00 https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvNmUzXC8yMDE4MDMyMjE0MjcwMDAxNF9oZC5qcGciLCJlZGl0cyI6eyJyZXNpemUiOnsiZml0IjoiY292ZXIiLCJoZWlnaHQiOjUwNn19fQ== President Trump spoke at the White House Next Generation Summit. (c-span.org)

In the same period of time, the rate of overdose death from prescription opioids has risen steadily, although the latest data , for 2017, indicate that it may finally have begun to plateau. (freebeacon.com)
2017-10-27T20:02:53-04:00 https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvOTBmXC8yMDE3MTAxMTEwNTEzMjAwM19oZC5qcGciLCJlZGl0cyI6eyJyZXNpemUiOnsiZml0IjoiY292ZXIiLCJoZWlnaHQiOjUwNn19fQ== The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health met to hear testimony from many House members on their recommendations for combating the opioid epidemic. (c-span.org)
He's currently in federal prison for illegally prescribing opioid painkillers and committing healthcare fraud, crimes for which he was sentenced in May 2017. (woodtv.com)
A report from December 2017 estimated that 130 people die every day in the United States due to opioid-related drug overdose. (wikipedia.org)
He noted that in 2017, the Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecuted 3000 defendants, including a pharmacist, a physician's assistant, and an opioid trafficker, for opioid-related "serious drug crimes. (medscape.com)

Pursuant to this power, it will seek cuts in the production levels for six major opioids, including the powerful painkiller fentanyl. (freebeacon.com)
It may even be the case that making it harder to acquire prescription opioids drives users to harder drugs like heroin and fentanyl. (freebeacon.com)
In West Virginia, where the death toll from heroin, fentanyl, and prescription opioids is the worst in the United States, public health officials say they want help from the federal government matching the scale of the devastation they see every day. (vox.com)
During trade talks with China last year, Trump pushed to slow that country's exports of fentanyl. (kunc.org)
Opioids cover a range of drugs - from prescription pain pills, heroin, morphine, and fentanyl. (fox13news.com)
Trump returned to familiar themes from his speeches on other issues, describing hardened criminals who push drugs on U.S. streets, blaming pharmaceutical companies for over-prescribing pain medications, arguing that a border wall with Mexico would "greatly help with this problem," talking about China's role in the production of fentanyl . (time.com)
We know from local studies that the opioid epidemic today is driven by fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 100 times more powerful than morphine, along with fentanyl analogs, or slight tweaks on the original fentanyl molecule. (motherjones.com)
Because lots of medical examiner's offices don't test for fentanyl analogs, the national CDC numbers tell us very little about which opioids killed people. (motherjones.com)
However, as prescription drugs became less accessible in 2016 in response to CDC opioid prescribing guidelines, there was an increase in accessibility to cheaper, illicit alternatives to opioids such as heroin and fentanyl. (wikipedia.org)
Induction of anesthesia is accomplished by using high doses of opioid (usually fentanyl or remifentanil) to minimize the dose of propofol, etomidate, or thiopental and thereby maximize cardiovascular stability. (medscape.com)
Fentanyl citrate is a synthetic opioid that has 75-200 times more potency and a much shorter half-life than morphine sulfate. (medscape.com)

The X-waiver originates from U.S. regulators' concerns about using an opioid - buprenorphine - to treat opioid addiction. (breitbart.com)
Harris also said allowing doctors to treat opioid addiction as they treat other medical conditions, without additional regulatory hurdles, will reduce the stigma that has often shaped the healthcare response to substance use disorders. (iowapublicradio.org)
Methadone is the oldest and most effective of the three approved medications used to treat opioid addiction. (asianage.com)

Kilmer also credits Trump for "pressuring China to better regulate some of its synthetic opioids. (kunc.org)

Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel said Thursday he had no interest in joining a multi-state lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's immigration policy, and he would only join a multi-state lawsuit against opioid manufacturers as a last resort. (wpr.org)
This is just the next in a string of failures in the Trump Administration's attempt at tackling opioids. (dailydot.com)
The problems with the administration's approach to the opioid epidemic begins at the very top. (dailydot.com)
The latest in our investigations of the Trump administration's pandemic coordination with states, the deployment of federal agents to cities, and other issues. (americanoversight.org)

First Lady Melania Trump addresses the B'More Youth Summit in Baltimore, Maryland on November 26, 2019. (commondreams.org)

The number of prescriptions issued for medical opioid has been falling steadily since 2012, according to the most-recent data available from the Center for Disease Control. (freebeacon.com)
Some research suggests that Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs, which track opioid prescriptions at the state level and reduce prescription rates, increase the number of heroin users and the amount of heroin crime . (freebeacon.com)
The pharmacists who dispensed those opioids had told the company they didn't want to fill the prescriptions because they were coming from doctors who were running pill mills. (nationofchange.org)
They reported hundreds of thousands of suspicious or inappropriate opioid prescriptions. (nationofchange.org)
Walmart had agreed to a settlement with the DEA seven years earlier in which it had promised to improve its controls over the abuse of opioid prescriptions. (nationofchange.org)
But Medicare data indicate that voters in areas that went for Trump weren't just hurting economically - many of them were receiving prescriptions for opioid painkillers. (whyy.org)
Researchers found a geographic relationship between support for Trump and prescriptions for opioid painkillers. (whyy.org)
To estimate the prevalence of opioid use by county, the researchers used the percentage of enrollees who had received prescriptions for a three-month or longer supply of opioids. (whyy.org)
Goodwin's team examined how a variety of factors could have influenced each county's rate of chronic opioid prescriptions. (whyy.org)
After correcting for demographic variables such as age and race, Goodwin found that support for Trump in the 2016 election closely tracked opioid prescriptions. (whyy.org)
In counties with higher-than-average rates of chronic opioid prescriptions, 60 percent of the voters went for Trump. (whyy.org)
that healthcare providers be fully aware of people's susceptibility to abuse and misuse of opioid prescriptions. (blastingnews.com)
Shedd and Tooley are accused of dispensing "massive" amounts of widely-abused drugs, mostly opioids, while ignoring multiple red flags about the legitimacy of the prescriptions. (woodtv.com)
Opioids became an acceptable treatment for a wide variety of conditions, leading to a consistent increase in opioid prescriptions. (wikipedia.org)
From 1990 to 1999, the total number of opioid prescriptions grew from 76 million to approximately 116 million, making them the most prescribed class of medications in the United States. (wikipedia.org)
We're actually beginning to see a glimmer of hope - a glimmer but decidedly better than no hope - with a drop in opioid prescriptions. (ctmirror.org)
And the number of opioid prescriptions has risen from 76 million in 1991 to 207 million today. (cdc.gov)

The doctors acknowledged that treating opioid addiction with an opioid might invite criticism. (breitbart.com)

In January 2019, the National Safety Council found that for the first time in American history, the odds of dying by opioid overdose were greater than by a car accident. (americanoversight.org)
In instances where children were exposed to opioids, nearly all were found to have involved children who orally ingested the substance, rather than touching or inhaling it, according to a 2019 study published in the Journal of Pediatrics. (wivb.com)

While problems like overprescription of painkillers, aggressive drug companies , and poor treatment options persist, the White House has tried to paint the opioid epidemic as a border issue. (dailydot.com)

In response to these alarms, Walmart compliance officials did not take corporate-wide action to halt the flow of opioids. (nationofchange.org)

That decision was later reversed but Trump handed leadership of the opioid response to a series of political appointees, including former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and White House adviser Kellyanne Conway. (kunc.org)
Trump wants to drastically slash the budget of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP, the drug czar's office), his White House opioid response is laughably led by pollster and counselor-not drug policy or addiction expert-Kellyanne Conway, and his budget proposals are for spending substantially less, not more money on treatment and prevention. (nationalmemo.com)

has withdrawn his name from consideration as America's drug czar, President Trump said Tuesday . (upr.org)
FINDLAY, Ohio (AP) - Communities ravaged by America's opioid epidemic are starting to get their share of a $50 billion pie from legal settlements. (nwahomepage.com)

The Department of Health and Human Services is eliminating the requirement that physicians obtain a special federal waiver in order to prescribe buprenorphine, a medication to treat opioid use disorder. (iowapublicradio.org)
The medical evidence is clear: access to medication-assisted treatment, including buprenorphine that can be prescribed in office-based settings, is the gold standard for treating individuals suffering from opioid use disorder," said Adm. (iowapublicradio.org)
Buprenorphine is the most important medication in our arsenal for treating opioid use disorder, which is currently one of the most lethal diseases for Americans. (iowapublicradio.org)
Adams has since supported other state laws aimed at curbing the opioid epidemic, including a bill that increased access to the overdose antidote naloxone, and another that restricts the amount of opioid medication a prescriber may give to adult patients who have not previously taken opioids and to children. (wfsu.org)
After seven months on the opioid medication, she gave birth to a healthy daughter. (nwahomepage.com)

The Hill ) - The opioid overdose antidote Narcan will be available to purchase over the counter in a few days, making it the first treatment of its kind accessible to the public without a prescription. (kron4.com)

Drs. Brian Barnett, a psychiatrist, and Jeremy Weleff, a resident in psychiatry in Ohio, wrote that "to the astonishment of the medical community," Biden on January 27 reversed a January 14 change by the Trump administration to allow nearly all physicians to prescribe buprenorphine. (breitbart.com)
Moreover, buprenorphine does not trigger the intense euphoria of other opioids. (breitbart.com)
Enter buprenorphine, which has gained favor as a go-to recovery option, though it - like the better known methadone - is itself an opioid. (bridgemi.com)
Buprenorphine produces a less euphoric high than other opioids, and one that tapers off even at higher doses, making patients less likely to overdose. (bridgemi.com)

Speaking in the East Room of the White House, Trump declared the abuse of opioids a public health emergency and outlined steps to fight it, including new efforts to curb prescription abuse, reduce the importation of certain drugs and educate children on the risks. (time.com)

Together we are going to end the scourge of drug addiction in America," Trump said at a White House event celebrating the signing. (npr.org)
On Tuesday, after dealing with the death of his son from an opioid overdose, Fox News host Eric Bolling announced he was "going back to the White House" to fight the epidemic facing America. (dailydot.com)
And he noted that the U.S. would work with other countries with opioid problems, singling out China and Latin America. (time.com)
Latest reports from the commission recommend that Mr. Trump declare a " state of emergency " on opioids in order to tackle its menace in America. (blastingnews.com)

Other research also shows that up to 20% of the nation's low workforce participation rate can be attributed to opioid abuse (AA, 10-31-17, P. 5). (acwi.org)
The settlement funds from drugmakers, wholesalers and pharmacies will not be enough for every harm reduction, treatment, recovery and prevention program that might be needed to fight the nation's opioid epidemic. (nwahomepage.com)

Rural, economically-depressed counties went strongly for Trump in the 2016 election. (whyy.org)

The opioid legislation was a rarity for this Congress, getting overwhelming bipartisan support in both chambers. (npr.org)
The legislation would make pharmaceutical consultants subject to potential legal action, clarify a definition of opioid products and amend a formula to calculate damages. (yahoo.com)
Earlier this month, the Nova Scotia government also introduced updated legislation and the Quebec government tabled an opioid-related bill similar to that of the other provinces. (yahoo.com)
It's devoting one of them - this week - to raising awareness of the opioid and heroin epidemic, while simultaneously putting pressure on Congress to fund its anti-opioid legislation. (politico.com)
That's how much pharma groups spent nationwide on lobbying and campaign contributions to influence opioid rules and other legislation between 2006 and 2015, the AP and the Center for Public Integrity conclude. (politico.com)

President Joe Biden has reversed a life-saving drug reform made by the Trump administration, two doctors wrote in an op-ed published by the Wall Street Journal on February 8. (breitbart.com)
Politico broke a story detailing how Conway has frozen out drug experts from her opioid efforts. (dailydot.com)
The Office of National Drug Control Policy told Politico that they have been "systematically excluded from key decisions about opioid and the strategy moving forward. (dailydot.com)
Staffing decisions around drug policy in the Trump administration have verged on parody. (dailydot.com)
Andrew Giuliani, 32-year-old son of former New York mayor and Trump booster Rudy has been given a job with the office as well despite having "no background in drug policy. (dailydot.com)
The federal government has taken some important steps to increase access to evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorder," said Beau Kilmer, who heads the Rand Corporation's Drug Policy Research Center. (kunc.org)
Drug policy experts say things could grow even worse in the months ahead if Trump is successful in dismantling the Affordable Care Act. (kunc.org)
Trump, who has criticized pharmaceutical companies for "out of control" drug pricing in the past, said the FDA will provide more training to doctors who prescribe drugs to prevent abuse and has requested that one drug, Opana ER , no longer be sold. (time.com)
Because of Fred's influence on him, Trump said he wants to focus on anti-drug education as well, through "really tough, really big, really great advertising so we get to people before they start. (time.com)
As NPR's White House Correspondent Tamara Keith notes, Marino's withdrawal leaves the Trump administration without nominees for several important domestic roles, including drug czar, the director of the DEA, and secretary of Health and Human Services. (upr.org)
After Marino's name was withdrawn, Manchin tweeted to Trump, "thanks for recognizing we need a drug czar who has seen the devastating effects of the problem. (upr.org)
The Trump administration introduced new addiction treatment guidelines Thursday that give physicians more flexibility to prescribe a drug to patients struggling with opioid addiction. (iowapublicradio.org)
McCaskill recently introduced a law repealing the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2016 after media reports indicated that it had dramatically restricted the ability of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to crack down on opioid distributors suspected of wrongdoing. (senate.gov)
Trump is expected to propose massive cuts this month to the "drug czar" office, just as he attempted in last year's budget before backing off. (motherjones.com)
Anyway, the reason for sidelining the actual drug professionals is pretty obvious: they would recommend programs that cost a lot of money and regulate pharmaceutical companies, and Trump doesn't want to do either. (motherjones.com)
Teen use of opioids has been noticeably increasing, with prescription drugs used more than any illicit drug except cannabis: more than cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined. (wikipedia.org)
Back in Washington, VA Secretary Robert McDonald and drug czar Botticelli will participate in a roundtable to discuss how veterans are being affected by the opioid problem. (politico.com)
The Charleston clinic already offers wound care, substance use disorder treatment referrals and opioid-overdose reversal drug training. (wfla.com)
Drug courts have come under scrutiny by public health experts who say that incorporating the criminal justice system into treatment for a disease such as opioid-use disorder is harmful and can often result in punishing participants by sending them to prison if they relapse, as most people addicted to opioids do. (insider.com)
Trump put healthcare providers and drug manufacturers on notice that they, too, would be subject to legal action. (medscape.com)
President Trump convened a roundtable on prescription drug prices in the White House's Roosevelt Room. (c-span.org)

It attempts to address over prescription of opioids and authorizes government research into non-addictive drugs that could be used for pain management. (npr.org)
Proposed in March, the plan sets a goal of reducing nationwide opioid prescription fills by one-third within three years. (freebeacon.com)
At the same time, reducing the volume of prescription opioids may unintentionally harm those the drugs most help. (freebeacon.com)
It is also extremely unclear and highly doubtful that an administration that is rolling back regulations with a vengeance will spend any time looking into the role of the pharmaceutical industry that pushes the sale of prescription opioids that many patients have abused. (prospect.org)
Goodwin says that prescription opioid use is strongly correlated with illicit opioid use, which can be hard to quantify. (whyy.org)
The great majority of Americans who use prescription opioids do not believe that they are misusing them. (wikipedia.org)
It was 2007 when Stuby began hearing from officials about prescription opioids being misused. (nwahomepage.com)
The move came just days after the department said it had formed the Prescription Interdiction and Litigation Task Force to coordinate litigation efforts and oversee enforcement against opioid manufacturers and distributors. (medscape.com)
The origins of this epidemic have been linked to prescription opioids. (cdc.gov)
The use of prescription opioids may impact the ability of a person to return to work, and ultimately can negatively affect their livelihood. (cdc.gov)

By then, county officials were seeing the area's fatal opioid overdose toll tick up. (nwahomepage.com)
But first: The Obama administration is deploying top officials to raise opioid awareness. (politico.com)
NEW YORK (AP) - The owner of a New York City day care center and a tenant living in the building were arrested Saturday after a 1-year-old boy died and three other young children were sickened by what officials described as apparent exposure to opioids. (wivb.com)
The president and first lady met with federal officials to discuss the government's response to the opioid epidemic. (c-span.org)

Opioids kill more than 115 Americans each day, according to government statistics . (npr.org)
Trump played fast and loose with the number of Americans who have died because of gun violence. (prospect.org)

But despite the declaration, Trump has said little about long-term solutions or funding to address this national emergency. (prospect.org)
The governors praised Trump's declaration while calling for more action. (newstalk1290.com)

With this change, office-based physicians and physician-led teams working with patients to manage their other medical conditions can also treat them for their opioid use disorder," Dr. Patrice Harris, who heads the AMA's opioid task force, said in a statement . (iowapublicradio.org)

Part 1 of the AP-Center series focuses on state efforts to regulate opioids. (politico.com)

When people continue to use opioid medications beyond what a doctor prescribes, whether to minimize pain or induce euphoric feelings, it can mark the beginning stages of an opioid addiction. (wikipedia.org)
The first wave, which marked the start of the epidemic, began in the 1990s due to the push towards using opioid medications for chronic pain management and the increased promotion by pharmaceutical companies for medical professionals to use their opioid medications. (wikipedia.org)
According to a Tampa Police Department affidavit, a hazmat test found the liquid "chemical agent" contained both methodone and hydrocodone - opioid pain medications. (ozarksfirst.com)

The expansive package focuses on improving access to treatment services by lifting certain restrictions on Medicaid and Medicare coverage, as well as backing the creation of comprehensive opioid recovery centers. (npr.org)
It creates, expands and reauthorizes programs and policies across almost every federal agency, aiming to address different aspects of the opioid epidemic, including prevention, treatment and recovery. (apainc.org)

In early March, the DOJ asked a federal judge overseeing hundreds of lawsuits against opioid makers and distributors to take 30 days to decide whether to join in the class action. (medscape.com)

The Biden administration argued that the Trump-era change had legal problems, including a failure to receive clearance from the White House budget office. (breitbart.com)
4. "The choice before…the Trump administration is simple: They can choose to lower prices and save lives. (beckershospitalreview.com)
If the White House continues down this path, the opioid epidemic is shaping up to be one of the greatest policy failures of the Trump administration. (dailydot.com)
The lackadaisical approach of the administration towards opioids is even reflected in their budgeting. (dailydot.com)
In December, the Government Accountability Office issued a report blasting the administration for failing to come up with a coherent national opioid strategy as required by law. (kunc.org)
But in recent months, even some members of the Trump administration have begun voicing alarm. (kunc.org)
He noted that his Administration is "dedicated to enforcing our immigration laws, enforcing our maritime security and securing our borders" as part of the crackdown on opioids, echoing his remarks on undocumented immigration. (time.com)
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said he was "horrified" by the story, adding that he "cannot believe the last administration did not sound the alarm on how harmful that bill would be for our efforts to effectively fight the opioid epidemic. (upr.org)
Price said the president is aware of the magnitude of the opioid epidemic and that several agencies within the administration are working on a comprehensive strategy to be presented to the president "soon. (wkyufm.org)
American Oversight has opened an investigation to better understand what steps the Trump administration is taking to address this issue. (americanoversight.org)
If confirmed by the Senate, Adams would be the second health official from Pence's home state to join the Trump administration. (wfsu.org)
The Trump administration hosted a White House summit on the opioid epidemic. (c-span.org)

If Trump really cares about public health emergencies, the efforts to fight opioid addiction should include concurrent actions against gun violence. (prospect.org)
At a press conference on Saturday, Mayor Eric Adams said Dominici's death underscored challenges the city faces in its fight against opioids. (wivb.com)

The epidemic began in the United States in the late 1990s, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), when opioids were increasingly prescribed for pain management, resulting in a rise in overall opioid use throughout subsequent years. (wikipedia.org)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describe the U.S. opioid epidemic as having arrived in three waves. (wikipedia.org)
NIOSH's sister agency at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), has released draft opioid prescribing guidelines and has invited public comment through January 13, 2016. (cdc.gov)

Traditionally, opioids have been prescribed for pain management, as they are effective for treating acute pain but are less effective for treating chronic pain. (wikipedia.org)
Clinical guidelines advise that opioids should only be used for chronic pain if safer alternatives are not feasible, as their risks often outweigh their benefits. (wikipedia.org)
For example, the CDC Pocket Guide: Tapering Opioids for Chronic Pain . (cdc.gov)

This was coupled with the promotion of opioids by pharmaceutical companies who insisted that patients could not become addicted. (wikipedia.org)

u201cWATCH: The First Lady is met with boos and jeering as she speaks at the B\u2019More Youth Summit for Opioid Awareness. (commondreams.org)

Sen. Rob Portman , R-Ohio, who sounded the alarm on opioid addiction four years ago, is credited with the slice of the bill that could have the greatest effect. (apainc.org)

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