CDC study: using opioids for one day can get you hooked
http://www.wptv.com/news/region-c-palm-beach-county/west-palm-beach/cdc-study-using-opioids-for-one-day-can-get-you-hookedThe opioid epidemic has swept across the country and now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a new warning for those thinking it might not impact them directly.
The study found that taking prescription painkillers like Oxycodone for just one day means you have a 6 percent chance of getting hooked on them.
If you’re taking pills for eight days or more that likelihood increases to almost 14 percent. If you’re taking them for a month or longer your chances of using them a year later jump to almost 30 percent.
“It is something that everybody needs to be vigilant about because we’re dealing with an epidemic and it’s an epidemic that cuts across socio-economic groups,” said Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg. “Palm Beach County has been ground zero.”
The Palm Beach County’s Medical Examiner tweeted last week: “Thought there was a slowing down, but we have 10 drug overdose deaths today.”
Aronberg said Monday his office has seen progress in the fight against unscrupulous sober homes.
“Every day there are rouge players in the sober home and drug treatment industry that are deciding to leave Palm Beach County or not come here at all because we’re the toughest county in the state if not the country,” Aronberg said.
In 2016 there have been 669 overdose deaths in Palm Beach County and counting. The medical examiner’s office said they’re still looking into the numbers for December of last year.
Now the judicial system is going after – in their opinion – “unscrupulous sober homes”… just like they have went after prescribers that are “over-prescribing” – in the opinion of the judicial system. Filed under: General Problems
Problem is a lot of people believe “studies” like these. Why not say it like it is, the opioid epidemic is heroin and fentynal. No one in chronic pain gets addicted to these meds, we just depend on them for some relief. Trying to add to the hysteria. There was just an article that said a guy working for over 30 years with recovering addicts said he did not have one that said prescriptions caused their addiction. They started with other illegal drugs.
I like how video in the link page they say, if you take pain med for more and more days, you could end up taking it LONG TERM (dramatic pause and tone). but yet mention nothing about issues with taking it long term. Then they go on to insinuate people are dying in droves from these medications. that’s just not true, and they provide no facts either. sickening
Wanda Moore and the “study” that she quotes are chock full of BS and nonsense! If a prescription for opioid pain relievers caused as large a proportion of people to become “hooked” as she claims, then we would see millions of new addicts every year who are treated for pain following surgery or injury. There is no evidence that is actually happening.
Yea those stats they provide are incredibly meaningless.