SPH 380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Opioid Overdose, Opioid Use Disorder, Drug Overdose
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More chronic disease and conditions than infectious diseases. Depending on making lifestyles changesso how do we affect behavioral change at different levels (individual, community, and beyond) Drug overdose deaths/7000, increasing, not plateauing, more than car crashes in 2017 higher than peal of hiv epidemic. Increased us drug overdose deaths, cut across all socioeconomic statuses, especially among those without college degrees and non hispanic whites. Over half of deaths were from prescription opioids. Drugs over prescribed in us, more of a business, so prescribe lots of opioids here. Aggressive marketing and distribution, large quantity of drug. Incentives for primary care providers to provide opioids. Any pain at all you"re not a good provider. Huge number of ppl being exposed to opioidsgo homem with several weeks worth of oxycodone but they don"t need that much. Increase in number of babies born with drug overdose. Knew oxycodone was highly addictive but still marketed. Increasing prescription drug use exceeded all drugs except marijuana.
