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Opioid Abuse On The Rise, But Are We Missing A Much Bigger Problem?
It has become impossible to ignore the mainstream media coverage of the seemingly out of control opiate abuse epidemic. There is good reason since in 2014 almost 30,000 overdose deaths were related to either prescription pain relievers or heroin. This represents a staggering 300% increase of the number of people that suffered from opioid related overdose deaths compared to 2002. No wonder the Center of Disease Control (CDC) recently published the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain in an effort to slow down this rapidly growing epidemic. In May of this year both houses of the “gridlocked” US Congress passed the Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Reduction Act by a surprising show of bi-partisan cooperation. However, despite experiencing a 145% Read More…