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Opioids: 500000 Britons Are Addicted But You Can Still Buy Them Over The Counter At Boots

Published by chris24 on September 5, 2021
Opioids: 500000 Britons Are Addicted But You Can Still Buy Them Over The Counter At Boots

… of NHS prescriptions for powerful opioid painkillers – five years after stark warnings that Britain was heading for a US-style addiction crisis.
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Kathy Griffin reveals past suicide attempt, pill addiction amid lung cancer diagnosis

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Decreasing psychiatric emergency visits, but stable addiction emergency visits, during CoViD-19-a time series analysis 10 months into the pandemic – H åkansson A, Grudet C.

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has been suspected to increase mental health problems, but also to possibly lead to a decreased treatment seeking, for example due to fear of attending hospital. Early findings demonstrate decreased treatment seeking for m… (Source: SafetyLit)
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InFocus: Limiting Opioids in the ED Won’t Solve Addiction

No abstract available (Source: Emergency Medicine News)
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