Is Ireland heading towards an opioid addiction crisis?
The prescription of pain medication among Irish patients, including highly addictive opioids, is rapidly rising, according to new research.
The use of opioids has increased by 25 per cent in Ireland, while the prescription of paracetamol rose 50 per cent between 2014-2022, according to a study published last week in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.
The prescription of even stronger medication, like codeine and opioids including tapentadol and oxycodone, is rising even higher.
This sharp increase in pain medication prescriptions by doctors in Ireland contrasts starkly with the…
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