Opioid Resource Center
Welcome to the Mayo Clinic Opioid Resource Center, produced in association with the new Mayo Clinic Press book “Ending The Crisis: Mayo Clinic’s Guide to Opioid Addiction and Safe Opioid Use.” Here you will find articles and other educational materials to help you better understand opioids.
Please watch this short video from Holly Geyer, M.D., the author of “Ending of the Crisis,” and scroll down to find other resources, including Dr. Geyer’s book. We hope that the resources you find here will enlighten you on how opioids work — and how they turned into the United States’ biggest public health crisis.
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Ending the Crisis
Mayo Clinic’s Guide to Opioid Addiction and Safe Opioid Use Holly L. Geyer, M.D. Developed by Mayo Clinic leaders in the fields of pain management, opioids, and addiction, and championed by people willing to share their personal experiences, this empowering book encourages patients and their loved ones to make informed, life-saving decisions about the use of opioids. The book includes:
- A foreword by former Surgeon General Jerome Adams, whose landmark report declared opioids one of the nation’s most urgent health issues
- Advice for how to work with health care providers to use opioids safely, manage side effects and prevent complications
- Resources for those struggling with addiction, and their families, from how treatment centers work to how to find a program that can help
- Example of a real-life intervention, including a play-by-play narrative of the discussion and a post-intervention evaluation
- Step-by-step instructions for how to administer life-saving doses of naloxone
- Impactful personal stories of people who have experienced opioid addiction
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