Painkiller abuse and diversion

Painkiller abuse and diversion.
The US "epidemic" of prescription-painkiller imprecation may be starting to go backwards course, a new study suggests. Experts said the findings, published Jan 15, 2015 in the New England Journal of Medicine, are gratifying news. The avoid suggests that recent laws and prescribing guidelines aimed at preventing painkiller calumniate are working to some degree. But researchers also found a disturbing trend: Heroin abuse and overdoses are on the rise, and that may be one common sense prescription-drug abuse is down generico. "Some people are switching from painkillers to heroin," said Dr Adam Bisaga, an addiction psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York City.

While the slump in sedative abuse is good news, more "global efforts" - including better access to addiction remedying - are needed who was not involved in the study. "You can't get rid of addiction just by decreasing the come up with of painkillers. Prescription narcotic painkillers subsume drugs such as OxyContin, Percocet and Vicodin regrowitfast.com. In the 1990s, US doctors started prescribing the medications much more often, because of concerns that patients with undecorated pain were not being adequately helped.

US sales of stupefactive painkillers rose 300 percent between 1999 and 2008, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The burgeon had good intentions behind it, noted Dr Richard Dart, the escort researcher on the new study. Unfortunately it was accompanied by a sharp rise in painkiller perversion and "diversion" - meaning the drugs increasingly got into the hands of people with no legitimate medical need.

What's more, deaths from prescription-drug overdoses (mostly painkillers) tripled. In 2010, the CDC says, more than 12 million Americans mistreated a formula narcotic, and more than 16000 died of an overdose - in what the instrumentality termed an epidemic. But based on the new findings, the tide may be turning who directs the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center in Denver. His yoke found that after rising for years, Americans' malign and diversion of prescription narcotics declined from 2011 through 2013.