Anahí Ortiz, director of the Franklin Forensic Service in the US state of Ohio, admitted that the opioid crisis that exists in that country and that has that city in the first national place in deaths due to overdoses, it has not been fought enough, due to a conservative and restrictive legislation in the care of addictions.
“They don’t like them here, there are very few programs in OhioWe have one in Columbus but it is very restrictive. It takes place only two days a week for a few hours and is only in two locations, one of them is not so easy to get to, so I think there should be creative ways and greater criteria to serve it, “he said in Interview with MILLENNIUM.
This week the US Institute on Drug Abuse admitted the “national crisis” of opioids it faces, revealing that 90 Americans die every day from overdoses of illegal substances.
In addition, it revealed that the “national crisis” of opioids costs $ 78.5 billion annually and includes healthcare costs, lost productivity, addiction treatment, and criminal justice intervention costs.
MILLENNIUM revealed last October that Columbus, the capital of the state of Ohio, it is the epicenter of the opioid crisis. In that northeastern American city, just on a weekend up to 20 people die from fentanyl overdose, thus crowding the morgue of a city of just 1.3 million inhabitants.
Most of the dead are Caucasian men between the ages of 25 and 50 who use cheap drugs that come in large quantities from China and India and It is trafficked by the Mexican cartels of Sinaloa and Jalisco Nueva Generación.
An injection or a pill that dissolves in the mouth can lead to respiratory arrest. The fentanyl waves happy pills as prescription-controlled pills are known, they are 100 times more potent than morphine. However, fentanyl that is marketed on the streets or delivered to your home, can cause permanent brain damage after experiencing a feeling of extreme happiness.
According to Institute of Drug Abuse, Towards the end of the 1990s, pharmaceutical companies reassured the medical community and reassured that prescription opioid pain relievers would not create addiction in patients and began to be prescribed more frequently.
Nevertheless, 20 years later the use of illegal fentanyl set off the alarm bells. Opioid overdoses began to increase. In 2015, more than 33,000 Americans died as a result of an opioid overdose, including those prescribed to combat pain, being almost 100 times stronger than morphine.
According to the figures released, about 21 to 29 percent of patients who are prescribed opioids to treat chronic pain use them inappropriately, in addition to Between 8 and 12 percent of people who use an opioid for chronic pain develop some type of disorder.
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