EE042 - Opioids Part I
Everything Economics
English - September 09, 2019 20:08 - 19 minutes - 26.8 MBEducation Business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In part I of a two part series on opioids, Tahlia looks at prescription rates, opioid related hospitalizations, and opioid related deaths across the US and Canada. Since the 1990s, opioid prescription rates have increased significantly, driving the opioid crisis and fentanyl crisis the continent finds itself in.
Read the Canadian Institute of Health Information report here: https://www.cihi.ca/sites/default/files/document/opioid-related-harms-report-2018-en-web.pdf
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