The FDA’s big step toward ending America’s quiet opioid epidemic

By Daily Truth Report Staff

In America, we usually talk about opioids in the context of addiction, overdose, and the criminal consequences of illicit use. And for good reason: from 1999 to 2018, more Americans died from opioid overdose than U.S. soldiers who died in both World Wars combined.

But there is a quieter, slower epidemic lurking behind the scenes that deserves equal attention: the link between opioid use and chronic disease. Far too often, opioids prescribed to manage pain from chronic conditions such as arthritis or diabetes end up making these conditions worse — by masking symptoms and disease progression rather than treating the root cause — while instigating new chronic conditions, from cardiovascular disease to metabolic dysfunction…

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