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Women and the Opioids Epidemic: The Need for a Woman-Centered Response
By: NWHN Staff Buprenorphine, FDA Advocacy, Medicaid, Naloxone, Opioids Consumer Health Info, Health InfoOpioid dependency is a bodily adaptation that is likely to disproportionately affect women, because they are more likely to develop opioid dependency in a shorter period of time, compared to men.
Opioids and Women: From Prescription to Addiction
By: NWHN Staff Acetaminophen, Hydrocodone, Opioids, Oxycodone, Pain Treatments Consumer Health Info, Health InfoWomen are more likely than men to experience chronic pain and use prescription opioid pain medications for longer periods and in higher doses.
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Women & the Opioid Epidemic: What Works and What Doesn’t
By: Maggie Gorini ,Opioids, Raising Women's Voices Deep Dive ArticlesThe opioid crisis is big news these days, and with good reason. In 2017 alone, there were 70,237 drug overdose deaths, two-thirds of which involved opioids.i Accidental drug overdose is the leading cause of death in the U.S. among people under age 50.ii
Women Bear the Greater Burden of the Opioid Epidemic
By: Scott McDougall ,Opioids Deep Dive ArticlesThe United States is in the grip of an opioid epidemic. It has been declared a public health emergency, and the US government is launching a campaign to raise awareness of this issue. But one thing such campaigns fail to...
Based on an informal poll of 9 staff members, 4 of us admitted to having an old bottle of unfinished opioids on the shelf at home, gathering maybe its 10th year of dust. But how could that be? Aren’t we...
Women and the Opioids Epidemic: The Need for a Woman-Centered Response
By: NWHN Staff ,Buprenorphine, FDA Advocacy, Medicaid, Naloxone, Opioids Consumer Health Info,Health InfoOpioid dependency is a bodily adaptation that is likely to disproportionately affect women, because they are more likely to develop opioid dependency in a shorter period of time, compared to men.
Rx for Change: Throw Away Your Opioids
By: Charlea T. Massion, MD, and Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD ,Addiction, Opioids, Rx for Change, The Women's Health Activist Newsletter Deep Dive ArticlesAdriane just had dental surgery and the surgeon provided a prescription for Tylenol with codeine. When she told him that opioids were not better than over-the-counter (OTC) painkillers for dental pain, the surgeon argued, “But it’s such a weak opioid.”...
Opioids and Women: From Prescription to Addiction
By: NWHN Staff ,Acetaminophen, Hydrocodone, Opioids, Oxycodone, Pain Treatments Consumer Health Info,Health InfoWomen are more likely than men to experience chronic pain and use prescription opioid pain medications for longer periods and in higher doses. Updated: May 31, 2018
Rx for Change: Alternatives for Chronic Pain
By: Charlea T. Massion, MD, and Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD ,Chronic Pain, Opioids, Osteoarthritis, Rx for Change, The Women's Health Activist Newsletter Deep Dive ArticlesWe’ve previously discussed the risks of opioids, and how pharmaceutical companies have encouraged over-prescription of these drugs that has created an opioid addiction epidemic. But what’s a person in pain to do? Updated: Jan 29, 2018
Women & the Opioid Epidemic
By: Megan Whiteman, Alycia Hogenmiller, and Adriane Fugh-Berman ,Opioids, The Women's Health Activist Newsletter Deep Dive ArticlesThe number of Americans who die from drug overdoses has doubled since 1999, and drug overdoses are now thought to be the leading cause of death among Americans under 50.1
Rx For Change: Obfuscating Opioid Risks
By: Charlea T. Massion, MD, and Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD ,Addiction, Opioids, Rx for Change, The Women's Health Activist Newsletter Deep Dive ArticlesBack when we were in training, more than 30 years ago, opioids were considered dangerous drugs that could cause addiction and life-threatening respiratory depression. Medical students were taught that opioids were very useful for end-of-life pain (especially for cancer, which...