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Opioid drugs. risk of abuse

Codeine, fentanyl, oxycodone, morphine, tramadol… All these drugs are opiates and their prescriptions are constantly increasing in France. With a particularly watchful eye of health authorities. Very effective for some pain relief, opiates can be truly addictive if misused. In the United States, this, which has become unmanageable for many patients, causes more than 100,000 deaths annually.

Fortunately, the situation in France is disproportionate to this dramatic assessment. However, the number of opioid addictions reported to drug addiction monitoring centers is increasing every year. The number of poisonings and deaths is even more worrying. Thus, 7 hospitalizations per day and 4 deaths per week are attributed to opioids, according to a recent report by the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Healthcare Products (ANSM).

In this context, the French Observatory on Drugs and Addiction (OFDT)…

Source: Le Figaro

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