SRATS Durango

06/07/2017

Recent lawsuits are asking courts whether the current crisis is comparable to the one over to***co in the ’90s.

06/07/2017

A now infamous one-paragraph letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1980 may have been the spark that ignited today's opioid epidemic.

06/07/2017

06/02/2017

The dangerous opioid is forcing police and forensic-lab workers to invent new ways to protect themselves.

06/02/2017

Some people might be seeking out painkillers when what they really need is Prozac.

06/02/2017

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/01/health/opioid-epidemic-1980-letter-origins-study/index.html

It's only one paragraph to the editors of the New England Journal of Medicine, but the ripple effect continues to be felt as the US fights an opioid epidemic, new research finds.

05/26/2017

Presidential budget released this week proposes slashing Medicaid by as much as $1.4 trillion.

05/24/2017

Candidate Trump talked a lot about the opioid crisis. President Trump may make it worse.

05/24/2017

Of patients who reported completing their opioid therapy, as many as 85% said they had unused pills remaining, with an average of 30 remaining pills.

Among all patients in the study, 28% reported having 20 or more unused pills at the end of treatment, and 24% had 200 or more unused morphine equivalents.

Most patients have unused opioid pills after treatment of surgical pain, while few report awareness of proper storage or disposal practices.

05/23/2017

https://www.statnews.com/2017/05/15/medication-assisted-treatment-what-we-know/

A STAT guide to what we know about the science and effectiveness of medication-assisted treatment, or MAT, and what do we not know.

05/19/2017

Sadly, anyone who spends time in downtown Denver knows that the scourge of he**in and opioid addiction is no stranger here. Overdoses killed 442 people in Colorado last year. And though Colorado ha…

05/19/2017

Brittany Pettersen’s mother is a he**in addict. The Colorado state lawmaker is coming forward with her story and using her experiences to drive a push to address opioid abuse and drug treatme…