JUNIPER PUBLISHERS-Global Journal of Addiction & Rehabilitation Medicine
Opioid Addiction Following Surgery
Authored by Jacques E Chelly*
In recent decades but in especially
in the last few years, the opioid epidemic sweeping across the nation has grown
exponentially in scope and severity. It is estimated that over two million
people are addicted to opioids in the United States. Between the years of 1999
and 2015, opioid addiction killed an estimated 183,000 people. In 2015, opioid
overdose killed 15,000 and in 2016 it is estimated that more than 63,000 people
died from overdose. As a comparison, deaths related to breast cancer are
estimated to reach 45,000 per year. Unfortunately, the present estimate is that
death from opioid overdose will continue to escalate to over 500,000 in the
next few years. According to a report from the CDC, the population at risk is
between 25-54 years and seems to affect more women than men. It increased by 5
fold in women compared to 3.6 in men between 1999-2010. The predominance of
opioid addiction in teenagers and it relationship with suicide remain grossly
unknown. A recent report indicated that death by opioid overdose has become one
of the leading causes of the decrease in life expectancy in the United States,
a phenomenon similar to what happened during the AIDs epidemic in the 1980s.
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