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Author | : Arun Gupta, MD P.C. |
Publisher | : The RAOE Foundation |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2022-02-14 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
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Every day, nearly 275 people are dying from opioid addiction in America. This doctor wants to stop the crisis. “I can’t retire. Not until the Opioid Epidemic finally becomes a chapter in our country’s history.” Over the past two decades, the opioid addiction has resulted in the deaths of nearly one million people in our country. Screening and brief intervention for addictions will mean fewer people dying from illegal overdose and ensure that patients get prescription-grade pain pills or buprenorphine from the pharmacy, but doctors are not taught this in American medical schools. In 2006, after years of feeling powerless to help those addicted to opioids, benzodiazepines, and stimulants, general practitioner Dr. Arun Gupta joined the American Society of Addiction Medicine and earned his certification to treat patients with addictions. Now, in his eye-opening new book, after decades of research and first-hand experience, he tells us how to end this crisis that is destroying so many lives. Here are some hard facts: • The CDC classifies Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and overdoses as “preventable,” and yet nearly 275 are dying every day. • SAMHSA says 41.1 million people needed Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment in the past year, but only 6.5% received it. There are not enough addiction doctors to care for them. • Doctors are trying to comply with the literally thousands of regulations that have been thrown at them, or they face serious punitive consequences. • Respecting an addict's basic human dignity means they must have access to treatment. If they do not, we confirm their lives are not worth saving. The medical profession is trusted to save lives. Passionate, factual, and written with truth as the only agenda, this book offers the practical solutions for the War on Drugs that American so desperately needs.
Author | : Arun Gupta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2022-02-14 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
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Every day, nearly 275 people are dying from opioid addiction in America. This doctor wants to stop the crisis. "I can't retire. Not until the Opioid Epidemic finally becomes a chapter in our country's history." Over the past two decades, the opioid addiction has resulted in the deaths of nearly one million people in our country. Screening and brief intervention for addictions will mean fewer people dying from illegal overdose and ensure that patients get prescription-grade pain pills or buprenorphine from the pharmacy, but doctors are not taught this in American medical schools. In 2006, after years of feeling powerless to help those addicted to opioids, benzodiazepines, and stimulants, general practitioner Dr. Arun Gupta joined the American Society of Addiction Medicine and earned his certification to treat patients with addictions. Now, in his eye-opening new book, after decades of research and first-hand experience, he tells us how to end this crisis that is destroying so many lives. Here are some hard facts: -The CDC classifies Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and overdoses as "preventable," and yet nearly 275 are dying every day. -SAMHSA says 41.1 million people needed Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment in the past year, but only 6.5% received it. There are not enough addiction doctors to care for them. -Doctors are trying to comply with the literally thousands of regulations that have been thrown at them, or they face serious punitive consequences. -Respecting an addict's basic human dignity means they must have access to treatment. If they do not, we confirm their lives are not worth saving. The medical profession is trusted to save lives. Passionate, factual, and written with truth as the only agenda, this book offers the practical solutions for the War on Drugs that American so desperately needs.
Author | : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 483 |
Release | : 2017-09-28 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309459575 |
Download Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.
Author | : Brianna L. Norton |
Publisher | : Elsevier Health Sciences |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2020-10-25 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0323683290 |
Download The Opioid Epidemic and Infectious Diseases E- Book Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Offering timely guidance on the junction of the opioid crisis and infectious diseases, this practical handbook by Dr. Brianna L. Norton provides concise yet comprehensive coverage of a growing patient population. Infectious disease specialists are increasingly seeing patients who previously used opiods and now use intravenous drugs. Many challenges are unique to this patient population, including new and growing infections such as hepatitis C, endocarditis, HIV, and hepatitis B. The Opioid Epidemic and Infectious Diseases is an up-to-date, real-world guide that covers the scope of the problem, management guidelines, and much more. Describes the new landscape of the opioid crisis in the U.S. and its intersection with infectious diseases, including epidemiology, Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and rural America, and more. Offers practical guidance on (OUD) and infectious co-morbidities like hepatitis C, STDs, endocarditis, HIV, and hepatitis B. Covers prevention, treatment, and harm reduction. Discusses OUD, infectious diseases, and the criminal justice system. Consolidates today’s available information and guidance into a single, convenient resource.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- ) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : |
Download The Preventable Epidemic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Chris McGreal |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2018-11-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1541773772 |
Download American Overdose Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic -- devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusions The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of the history of greed, corruption, and indifference that pushed the US into consuming more than 80 percent of the world's opioid painkillers. Journeying through lives and communities wrecked by the epidemic, Chris McGreal reveals not only how Big Pharma hooked Americans on powerfully addictive drugs, but the corrupting of medicine and public institutions that let the opioid makers get away with it. The starting point for McGreal's deeply reported investigation is the miners promised that opioid painkillers would restore their wrecked bodies, but who became targets of "drug dealers in white coats." A few heroic physicians warned of impending disaster. But American Overdose exposes the powerful forces they were up against, including the pharmaceutical industry's coopting of the Food and Drug Administration and Congress in the drive to push painkillers -- resulting in the resurgence of heroin cartels in the American heartland. McGreal tells the story, in terms both broad and intimate, of people hit by a catastrophe they never saw coming. Years in the making, its ruinous consequences will stretch years into the future.
Author | : Liz Armstrong |
Publisher | : New Society Publishers |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2011-05-07 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1550924974 |
Download Cancer Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
How to prevent cancer before it starts.
Author | : Daniel Skinner |
Publisher | : Trillium Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2019-07-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780814255384 |
Download Not Far from Me Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A collection of more than fifty first-person accounts--narratives, poetry, photos, and interviews--of Ohioans impacted by the opioid crisis.
Author | : Eugene T Richardson |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2020-12-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0262045605 |
Download Epidemic Illusions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment--help perpetuate global inequities. In Epidemic Illusions, Eugene Richardson, a physician and an anthropologist, contends that public health practices--from epidemiological modeling and outbreak containment to Big Data and causal inference--play an essential role in perpetuating a range of global inequities. Drawing on postcolonial theory, medical anthropology, and critical science studies, Richardson demonstrates the ways in which the flagship discipline of epidemiology has been shaped by the colonial, racist, and patriarchal system that had its inception in 1492. Deploying a range of rhetorical tools and drawing on his clinical work in a variety of epidemics, including Ebola in West Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo, leishmania in the Sudan, HIV/TB in southern Africa, diphtheria in Bangladesh, and SARS-CoV-2 in the United States, Richardson concludes that the biggest epidemic we currently face is an epidemic of illusions—one that is propagated by the coloniality of knowledge production.
Author | : Simukai Chigudu |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2020-01-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108489109 |
Download The Political Life of an Epidemic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Reveals how the crisis of Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak of 2008-9 had profound implications for political institutions and citizenship.