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Approach to drug crisis shifts as illicit fentanyl and heroin overtake prescription opioids
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30263
Subject(s) - heroin , medical prescription , fentanyl , illicit drug , prescription drug , medicine , psychiatry , drug , pharmacology
There's an innovation of sorts going on in the federal approach to opioid overdoses; a year ago, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was saying that the best way to deal with the problem was to reduce access to prescription opioids. At the same time, the CDC also denied that these cutbacks were not driving people to illicit opioids. In the wake of several reports, however, the tone has changed.