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LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: As we've been hearing, doctors face a tough challenge. They need to help ease their patients' pain while considering the risks of prescribing opioids. Dentists are often on the front lines of this problem, and they're lo

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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions says the government is committed to reducing the amount of prescription opioids that are in the U.S., reducing the number of addictions and reducing the number of overdose deaths that drugs can cause. The Trump adm

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Now let's turn to the opioid crisis in this country and the federal government's response. Since he was elected, President Trump called on a White House panel to recommend what more need to be done. The commission, chaired by New Jersey Governor Chri

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Today's show begins with an in-depth explanation of opioid abuse in America. Opioids are synthetic drugs that can be prescribed to control pain. They're also widely abused in the U.S. and they're a major part of the reason why drugs are the leading c

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Compared with 50 years ago, today's heroin user is whiter, more suburban and had prescription opioids for a gateway. Dina Fine Maron reports In the last half century, heroin contributed to thousands of deaths, from Janis Joplin to Philip Seymour Hoff

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Doctors Consider Ethics Of Costly Heart Surgery For People Addicted To Opioids

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Doctors are describing a group of opioid addicts as the sickest of the sick. These are IV drug users, mostly heroin addicts who get infections in their hearts. They're being wheeled into hospitals around the country. Treating the

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Doctors have gotten more cautious about prescribing opioids for pain. But too many patients are still getting the addictive drugs so says a new report for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. NPR health correspondent R

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: All right, let's talk about the estimated one and a half million unemployed Americans who have stopped looking for jobs, even though there are plenty available. This week, NPR's Yuki Noguchi has been asking how much the opioi

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: On the front lines of the opioid crisis, it's a familiar story - the addict whose first exposure to opioids was a legitimate prescription usually from an M.D. but sometimes from a dentist. In 2012, the last year for which we have

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: This question of how to find that balance when you have patients in pain and doctors who are fearing addiction is coming up this week as the Society for Neuroscience holds its meetings here in Washington, D.C. And NPR's Jon Hamilt

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: In Your Health on this Monday, we report on the dilemma at the heart of the opioid crisis. Many of the addictive drugs that ruin or end lives are also helpful to people with severe pain, so doctors have to strike a balance. We ha

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AILSA CHANG, HOST: A couple hundred people gathered in the White House's East Room today. They came to get an update on the Trump administration's response to the opioid crisis. President Trump declared the crisis a public health emergency back in Oc

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美国国家公共电台 NPR For Newborns Exposed To Opioids, Health Issues May Be The Least Of Their Problems

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: At a Steubenville, Ohio, hospital the other week, I heard about the expense of running an obstetrics department, including this troubling fact. One newborn in 5 there is born having been exposed in the womb to opioids. That figur

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