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Illustration of a pill bottle spilling various colored pills, symbolizing the opioid crisis. Text overlay reads: "The Opioid Epidemic: New Frontiers in Treatment."
  • July 14, 2025
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The Opioid Epidemic: New Frontiers in Treatment

From 1999-2019, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly 500,000 people died from an overdose involving prescription or illicit opioids. Opioid overdose was responsible for nearly 80,000 deaths in 2023 in the United States (KFF, 2023). There are medications to reverse an overdose and medications to treat Opiod Use Disorder (OUD) […]
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