The figures suggest that middleaged people are responsible for the climb in Leicestershire's
opiate usage - as use among younger people has actually been falling in recent years.
To investigate the effect of the app on pain and
opiate use, Dutch researchers randomly assigned 71 patients (aged 56-70 years) undergoing total knee replacement the app and usual care (38 patients) or usual care alone (33) in the first two weeks at home after surgery.
"Teenagers misusing crack and
opiates at such an early age will not only suffer with the physical effects of the drugs, but the drugs could impact their education, overall achievement in life and expose them to a criminal environment at a young age, without full understanding of the risks and consequences of their actions."
But, it is not just the younger population of the West Midlands addicted to crack and
opiates.
The number of people recorded as using crack and
opiates aged 25 to 34 in the West Midlands stands at 10,496 with a further 21,691 people hooked aged 35 to 64.
It's not just the younger population of the North West addicted to crack and
opiates.
Heroin, morphine, and other
opiates trace their origins to a single plant, the opium poppy.
As well as heroin and morphine,
opiates include opium, methadone, and codeine.
Gosport hospital's 'Dr
Opiate' joked about her own "miseries" to colleagues after probe into deaths under her care
By 2016, I was reluctantly back on
opiates - this time codeine - after tearing my hip cartilage during pregnancy.
I would not be here now if I'd had to carry on using
opiates JACOB BARROW, 30 Jacob has suffered from chronic pain for years and now grows his own cannabis plants at home, on the advice of medical professionals.