opioids

Only 1 in 4 residential addiction treatment facilities caring for U.S. adolescents under 18 years old offer buprenorphine.

The risk of opioid overdose can increase upon return to drug seeking and use, or relapse, after a period of not using the drug, or abstinence.

Benzodiazepines are a class of drugs that are commonly prescribed for the treatment of anxiety, insomnia, and other medical conditions.

There are concerns that rapid reductions in prescription opioids might provoke increased suicide risk among people who become desperate after they are taken off opioids.

GPs should not prescribe opioids and other medicines like paracetamol to patients because they could be ‘harmful’ and cause addiction.