She said the United States leads the world in cannabis usage among 16- to 19-year-olds. Every state in the Union saw an increase in overdose deaths, except for South Dakota and New Hampshire." "These are the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - we have averaged over 100,000 deaths from all drugs, of which 75,000 are due to opioids.
"How bad is it? Well, the prevalence of opioid use disorder in the United States is the highest in the world by far, and the death rates in the United States are the highest in the world, compared to all the other, for example, European Union countries," Madras said. So why did we get to this point in our history?" she asked.
Did we have more accidents, more construction problems that gave rise to bad kinetic pain and knee pain? No, we didn't. "What caused this massive increase in opioids? Did we have more pain than other countries? No, we didn't. is by far number one, and all the others are much less, on average five times less than the U.S.," she said. "If you look at the 31 countries that are the highest subscribers and prescribers of opioids, the U.S. She noted the opioid problem in this country is nearly five times the average of the next 30 countries that prescribe opioids at the highest levels. Madras touched on opioids, marijuana, and hallucinogens during her speech, but her primary topic was how marijuana is the next wave of deadly drugs in the U.S. "So from these plants came medicines and then street drugs, and the street drugs are designed to circumvent the firewall that exists between using the drugs as medicine and using it in recreation." The same with morphine and all morphine and opioid analogs, the same with amphetamines, which has been converted to methamphetamine and some of the other types of stimulants, as well as tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC from marijuana," she said. "And then it became diverted at very high concentrations for recreational use. "Cocaine was found in the coca leaf, and it was used as an anesthetic," she said. When chemists began to learn what caused the medicinal properties of these plants, it came at "a very serious trade-off," Madras said. And so they began to market plants as medicines, as well as foods." Thousands of years ago, people explored plants for food and serendipitously found that some plants are good as medicines.
"The United States currently has a major drug crisis, a drug crisis that was made in America, and hopefully, it will fade in America," she said. Madras was the opening speaker for the single-day event that featured multiple options for attendees - clinical, criminal justice, education and prevention, counseling and recovery, and family. HOT SPRINGS - A psychobiologist at Harvard Medical School delivered what she called a "semi-alarmist message" to attendees at the 11th annual Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Summit at Hot Springs Convention Center on Wednesday morning.īertha K.
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