Opioids: Are They as Effective as We Believe? The opioid epidemic has reached epic proportions—and continues to wreak havoc on millions of people’s lives. In 2016, medical professionals wrote about 214 million opioid prescriptions for pain. That is 66.5 scripts per...
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, more than 130 people die from opioid overdoses every day. Yes, each and every day. Shocked? The opioid crisis has been on a steady rise since 2017, and it was recorded that an estimated 1.7 million Americans were...