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Opioid Crisis: Opioid Crisis

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This is NIDA: Opioids

Understanding Addiction

Definition of Addiction
American Society of Addiction Medicine
Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General's Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health (2016)
Office of the Surgeon General of the United States
Opioid Crisis
National Institute of Drug Abuse
Drugs, Brains, and Behavior: The Science of Addiction
National Institute of Drug Abuse
The Role of Science in Addressing the Opioid Crisis
New England Journal of Medicine. 2017 May 31.

Data & Statistics

CDC: Drug Overdose Data
CDC Wonder Database: Underlying Cause of Death
NIDA: Drug Facts
Pain and Policy Studies Group: Opioid Consumption Data
Statistics and Facts
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
Vital Statistics Rapid Relsease - Provisional Drug Overdose Death Counts
National Center for Health Statistics

Population Issues

Young Adults

Heroin Fentanyl Other Opioids eBook, Partnership-for-Drug-Free-Kids
Partnership to End Addiction eBook in PDF

Adults

Characteristics of Initial Prescription Episodes and Likelihood of Long-Term Opioid Use — United States, 2006–2015
CDC Report on Opioid Addiction - April 2017

Elderly

Medicare Part D Opioid Prescribing Mapping Tool
Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS Opioid Misuse Strategy 2016
Older Adults: Misuse of Prescription Drugs
National Institute on Drug Abuse.
NPR: Opioids Can Derail The Lives Of Older People, Too
Hospital Prescribing of Opioids to Medicare Beneficiaries
Research - JAMA - July 2016