Laws & Regulations
The passage of this Act in 1914 led to the criminalization of the use of opium for non-medical purposes
In 1803, morphine was extracted from this plant.
What is opium?
This is the study of disease over time, place, and population.
What is epidemiology?
DOPP funds mobile outreach workers through this agency.
What is Anchor Recovery?
This 1970s regulation identified opiates as having a high potential for abuse.
What is the Controlled Substances Act?
This drug was developed in 1874 to be less potent alternative to morphine.
Deaths due to synthetic opioids surpassed deaths due to heroin or prescription opioids in this year.
What is 2015?
These are the four pillars of the Task Force.
What are Prevention, Treatment, Recovery, and Rescue?
This 2010 Act increased the recognition of pain as a public health problem.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
This pharmaceutical company marketed Oxycontin as having "low risk to addiction."
What is Purdue Pharma?
Rhode Island has a population of 1 million people. In 2016, the death rate due to prescription opioids was 5/100,000 population. This is the estimate of total number of deaths due to prescription opioids in RI.
What is 50?
The single focus of the Task Force.
What is to save lives?
This 1924 Act banned heroin for medical and other purposes.
What is the Heroin Act?
Blood pressure, pulse rate, temperature, respiration, and this.
What is pain?
In 2013, deaths due to synthetic opioids spiked due to this drug.
What is fentanyl?
Under the Prescription Drug Overdose Prevention for States grant, this much money is allocated for naloxone purchasing.
What is $0?
This 2016 Act authorizes funding for grants to states targeting opioid prevention and treatment activities.
What is the 21st Century Cures Act?
In 2017, HHS declared that the opioid epidemic was this.
What is a public health emergency?
This many prescription opioids were dispensed in 2011.
What is 206 million?
In RI, prescribers must check this database when initiating an opioid prescription.
What is the PDMP?