Por: The Boston Globe Nation January 11, 2023
In another troubling finding on persistent racial disparities in medicine, a new study from researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute found that elderly Black and Hispanic patients with advanced cancer are less likely than white patients to receive opioid medications for pain relief in the last weeks of their lives. in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the study is the largest to examine disparities in opioid access among patients with... + full article
Los Angeles Times USA Opinion December 23, 2022
The U.S. remains in the midst of an ever-worsening drug overdose crisis. Because prescription opioids drove its earlier phases, the nation responded by drastically reducing access to those drugs — with prescriptions dropping by nearly 50% over the last decade. But it’s now... + más
CDC issues updated guidance on prescribing opioids | The Hill
CDC releases new, more flexible guidelines for prescribing opioids | The Boston Globe
Los Angeles Times USA Science December 23, 2022
The U.S. opioid crisis has passed a dubious milestone: Overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids like illicit fentanyl have surpassed deaths involving prescription opioids. This switch occurred in 2016, according to data published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical... + más
Rainbow Fentanyl: What it looks like and what happens if you overdose | Newsweek
US Federal Drug Agents Seize Enough Fentanyl In 2022 That Can Potentially Kill Every American | RTTNews
Newsweek USA Health December 01, 2022
The legalization of medical marijuana use may reduce opioid use in cancer patients.As of 2022, medical marijuana for pain relief is legal in 37 states and Washington, D.C. Living in these states is associated with a lower rate of opioid dispensing in patients receiving cancer... + más
Why Overdose Deaths Have Increased | Time
Grounded: How to get Weed Stem | Newsweek
The Hill USA Health November 04, 2022
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday issued new guidance for providers on prescribing opioids for chronic pain, updating previous recommendations that had been in place since 2016. The CDC earlier this year amid criticisms that the old ones had... + más
CDC releases new guidelines for prescribing opioids to include people with short-term pain | ABC News
The Boston Globe USA Nation November 03, 2022
Responding to a backlash from pain patients, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released updated guidelines Thursday that offer clinicians more flexibility in the way they prescribe opioids for short- and long-term pain.The new recommendations eliminate numerical... + más
MarketWatch USA Politics October 07, 2022
To offer a new path forward, the Biden administration’s transformative economic, climate, health, and tax packages need to be implemented with in mind. In particular, it is essential that the millions of good-paying jobs that will be created through the Inflation Reduction... + más
Latino-Owned Businesses Grew in 2021-22, But Still Lag Non-Latino-Owned Firms | Forbes
GOP cuts into Democrats’ lead among Latino voters, new poll shows | NBC News
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