by Bruce Brown | June 21, 2022 | Medical
In November 2021, the CDC used provisional data to estimate that U.S. deaths from opioid overdoses rose to 100,306 for the 12-month period that ended in April 2021. That number is a 28.5% increase from the 78,506 deals in the previous 12 months. Researchers from the...
by Bruce Brown | January 23, 2020 | Medical
Today’s headlines announce the latest confirmed global numbers of cases and deaths of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus. We won’t know the outcome of nCoV for months, possibly years. However, we do know that overdose deaths from opioids in the U.S. increased...
by Bruce Brown | October 1, 2018 | General News, Medical
The opioid epidemic and telemedicine feature frequently in medical and health press, the first for its challenging, damaging, hard to fight nature and the second as a mode for patient monitoring, consults, and treatment. According to the CDC, 63,632 Americans died of...
