The Opioid Epidemic: Understanding the Crisis | Mayo Clinic

How exactly did we manage to end up with the opioid epidemic, and how do we dig ourselves out? Pick up your copy: mcpress.mayoclinic.org/produc...
Dr. Holly L. Geyer, Addiction Medicine Specialist at Mayo Clinic, sits down with us to discuss the opioid epidemic: how we got here, how we approached solutions in the past, and how we're working on ending the crisis today. She will cover topics such as:
00:00 Introduction
00:16 This is not our first opioid epidemic
00:59 America's first opioid-related legislation
01:25 World War II-related opioid use
01:41 A change in mindset during the opioid surge in the '70s and '80s
02:24 The famous 1980 article from the New England Journal of Medicine
03:07 The other mechanisms involved with prescribing practices in the '80s and '90s
03:58 "Pain as the fifth vital sign" and its detrimental effects in hospitals
04:37 in the '00s-'10s, providers began to see the error of their ways
05:07 Our first decline in opioid-related prescriptions and the correlating surge in opioid-related deaths
05:46 How our solutions then actually created the epidemic we know today
06:40 What are the costs of the opioid epidemic?
07:22 What are our solutions today?
08:13 What if we are the generation that ends the opioid epidemic for good?
Pick up your copy of Ending the Crisis today: mcpress.mayoclinic.org/produc...

[@Cuinn837]

I'm glad that the attitude towards pain patients needing opioids is beginning to change. For years now we have been hearing: "Everybody get off opioids! They're evil!" Now I sense the tide starting to turn, but it is slow.

[@gusmannion7962]

How about you get it so people like me a person who fell 28 ft & broke both ankles & I fractured my lower back no reason for people like me to be taken off their pain meds & force to the streets to risk life or death to get rid of my pains because suboxone doesn't help at all , it only helped with the withdrawals not the pain