Question 17994 — health

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Mr. Grégory Besson-Moreau draws the attention of the Minister of Solidarity and Health to the worrying figures of opioid addiction. As an epidemic of opioid overdoses hits the United States, an inventory from the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products (ANSM) was published in France on February 20, 2019. It issues an alert on the risks of dependence resulting from overconsumption of medications painkillers containing opiates or derivatives. In France, the number of deaths linked to the consumption of this type of medication increased by 146% between 2000 and 2015. With a total estimated between 200 and 800 deaths each year, opioids (tramadol, morphine and codeine in particular) constitute the leading cause of deaths by overdose. According to health insurance data, nearly 10 million French people have had a prescription of this type. of painkillers in 2015. Due to controlled access to these drugs, France is not yet at the level of the United States, which faces more than a hundred deaths per day, a phenomenon which represents more deaths than from firearms and road accidents combined. He asks him what position the Government has regarding this worrying observation, which is increasing year after year. He also wants to know what A system can be put in place to better control the prescription of this type of analgesic, creating dangerous dependencies for regular consumers.

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