What Are Opioids Prescribed For? Opioids are a type of narcotic painkiller medication given to people experiencing high levels of pain, often after a serious accident or due to a serious illness. Because they have a constipating effect, they are sometimes given...
A New Opioid That is FDA Approved It’s hard to ignore the opioid crisis that is overcoming the U.S. and much of the responsibility of it all lays in the over-prescription of opioids. Despite the growing concern over opioids, the FDA has...
Rural America Faces a More Intense Addiction Problem Rural communities across the U.S. are facing a much more intense drug problem than urban areas. Although the drug epidemic is a nation-wide problem, there are more people affected in rural areas of the...
Treatment is Required in Order to Ease Pain As a direct result of the opioid epidemic that is sweeping the nation, an increasing number of infants are already born with opioids in their system. When these babies are introduced to the world,...
Opioid Overdoses Claim More Lives Than Car Crashes As of January 2019, the amount of fatal opioid overdoses has officially surpassed the number of individuals who have lost their lives in car accidents. Reports concluded that the odds of losing your life...
Finding out how Opioid addiction starts Finding ways to temper the deadliest scourge plaguing modern families today, may begin with understanding how opioid addiction starts. Opioids are a class of drugs that include pain medications such as codeine, fentanyl, hydrocodone, morphine, oxycodone,...
