2023-05-18 15:53:00
Codeine, Fentanyl, Tramadol,… you may know them. They are all part of the opioid or opiate family, known to be highly addictive. Faced with the aging of the population, the increase in cancers, but above all the hyper-medicalization of pain, we resort to it in less extreme cases than before. It is therefore necessary to be extra careful and in Belgium, this is not always the case…
These drugs are, however, at the origin of an unprecedented health crisis in the United States. Following a grim affair of false and over-prescription, many Americans have fallen into opioid addiction and by 2021 more than 80,000 have died from it.
If the Belgian context is very different, the means to supervise doctors and patients still seem too weak…
We explain it to you in this new decryption of LN24+.
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