Opioid Epidemic
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Healthcare is constantly changing as new resources are coming around, people are finding new ways to utilize the resources. As the world continues to grow, there is an abundance of new information that is being learned about medications, particularly regarding controlled substances, such as opiates. As the world has evolved drugs have evolved with them. Opioids have been around for as long as the 1860s, and around the 1990s, the first wave of an opioid epidemic occurred (Rieder, 2020). The opioid epidemic has been brought about due to several different influences. Influences of the opioid epidemic could include overprescribing, the push from pharmaceutical companies, regulations, as well as the street side of opioid- like drugs which are indicative of synthetic drugs. There is a direct link between patient outcome and opioid use.
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