Americas Fentanyl Epidemic: What to do during an Overdose & How to Overcome Addiction | DTH Podcast

On todays episode we’ll be learning how to save the life of someone overdosing on Fentanyl, how and why addiction happens and steps and strategies to overcome addiction.

We’ll be discussing the current opioid crisis that is happening in the US and we will specifically be talking about the synthetic opioid called fentanyl. We’ll be learning why it’s so readily available and addictive. The signs of an opioid overdoes and what to do. New effective treatments that help with addiction. And how to get back our health and wellness back and recover from addiction.

My guest today is Dr. Joseph R. Volpicelli, M.D., Ph.D.
he is an Addiction expert and executive director of The Institute of Addiction Medicine which addresses the need to get evidence-based addiction treatments into clinical practice.

He is also founder of The Volpicelli Center..an intimate addiction recovery center that provides research-based recovery to fully support you in your recovery so you can get back to living fully.

Dr. Volpicelli graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s prestigious Medical Scientist Training Program and his research has led to many important discoveries in addiction treatment.

Drug overdoses are now one of the leading causes of death for Americans under the age of 50.

More recently, there has been a re-emergence of trafficking, distribution, and abuse of illicitly produced fentanyl which is a powerful synthetic opioid that is 80-100 times stronger than morphine. China and Mexico are the primary source countries for fentanyl trafficked directly into the US.

Synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, are now the fastest growing and most common drug category involved in drug overdose deaths in the US. In 2021, about 75% of drug overdose deaths in the US involved opioids.

Opioids kill more than 136 Americans every day.
And the national Overdose death rate increased 255.74% between 2000 and 2019.

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Links:
https://drugabusestatistics.org/drug-overdose-deaths/
https://nida.nih.gov/publications/drugfacts/fentanyl
https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-008-20%20Fentanyl%20Flow%20in%20the%20United%20States_0.pdf
https://katu.com/afternoon-live/lifestyle-health/erik-kilgore-a-personal-look-inside-the-fentanyl-crisis
https://drugabusestatistics.org/drug-overdose-deaths/
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2022/overdose-deaths-surged-first-half-2021-underscoring-urgent-need-action
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/data-visualizations/2021/the-high-price-of-the-opioid-crisis-2021
https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-06/Fentanyl-2020_0.pdf
https://nida.nih.gov/publications/drugfacts/fentanyl