All posts tagged "US Opioid Overdose Deaths"
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1.0KHealth NewsIncrease In Organ Donations An Unexpected, Positive Effect Of Opioid Crisis
The United States’ ongoing opioid epidemic continues to claim a growing number of lives, but there is a “silver lining” in the...
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979Health NewsDrug Companies Shipped 20 Million Opioids To A Small West Virginia Town
There are multiple factors that have contributed to the ongoing opioid epidemic in the United States, the most glaring of which have...
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1.4KHealth NewsCVS Sets 7-Day Limit On Opioid Prescriptions
CVS is now the first national pharmacy retailer to limit opioid prescriptions, announcing that it will cap the number of pain pills...
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992Health NewsDon’t Respond To Third-Time Overdose Calls, Councilman Proposes
Opioid overdoses continue to rise, and Ohio is not exempted from the epidemic that has been sweeping the nation. In Middletown, the...
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1.1KHealth NewsOklahoma Doctor Charged With Murder For Prescribing ‘Deadly’ Amounts Of Opioids
A doctor in Oklahoma who prescribed massive amounts of painkillers to her patients has been charged with five counts of second-degree murder....
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1.4KHealth NewsDrugs Masquerading As Painkillers Cause Overdoses In Georgia
Small yellow pills that look like prescription drugs have been making the rounds in Georgia, leading to dozens of overdoses and at...
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1.2KHealth NewsLetter From The ’80s Helped The Opioid Epidemic Today
In the 1980s, a highly respected physician wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine that out of close to 40,000 patients...
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1.3KHealth NewsOver 4,000 Overdose Deaths Recorded In Ohio In 2016
Over 4,000 people died from drug overdoses in Ohio last year, according to a newspaper survey of county coroners. Ohio has been...
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1.3KHealth NewsCherokee Nation Sues Pharmacies For Opioid Crisis
In an unprecedented move, the Cherokee Nation has sued retailers and distributors of opioids on claims that the companies have played a...
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1.3KHealth NewsResearch Shows That ‘Deaths of Despair’ Rising Among White Americans
Mortality rates are on the rise among middle-aged white Americans, fueled by drugs, alcohol and suicide. A new study looks deeper into...
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1.6KHealth NewsFatal Drug Overdoses Have Tripled Since 1990’s, CDC Says
In the late 1990s, heroin was a big problem in parts of the country. Now, it seems like history is repeating itself,...
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1.3KHealth News10-Month-Old Baby In Massachusetts Revived Twice After Fentanyl Exposure
A 10-month-old baby in Massachusetts is the latest victim in the opioid crisis that has been plaguing America throughout most of 2016....
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1.7KHealth NewsDEA Bans New Synthetic Drug ‘Pink’
The Drug Enforcement Agency announced on Thursday that it is temporarily putting a synthetic opioid nicknamed “pink” in the dangerous drugs category,...
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1.4KHealth NewsFDA Launches Mobile App Contest For Opioid Users
The US government is asking for the public’s help in coming up with mobile app designs that will help opioid users connect...
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2.5KMedicine NewsOpioid Crackdown Leading To Heroin Abuse And Overdoses
According to new data, the recent crackdown on prescription painkillers such as OxyContin has led addicts to turn to more illicit drugs...
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1.7KHealth NewsCDC Publishes New Guidelines Aimed At Reducing Opioid Drug Addiction
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published new guidelines in an attempt to tackle the major opioid drug crisis that...
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1.7KHealth NewsMassachusetts House Passes Bill To Crackdown On Opioid Addiction Crisis
The deadly opioid addiction crisis that is rife in the state of Massachusetts is aimed to be tackled now a bill has been...
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2.3KMedicine NewsFlorida Pill Mill Deaths Reduced By Legislation, Study Finds
Florida has recently been facing a difficult, dangerous, and massive problem involving the overprescription of opioid medications. In response to what were...
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2.4KMedicine NewsPrescription Opioid Overdose Deaths Are Up, But Misuse Is Down
In the United States, non-medical prescription opioid use disorders and overdose deaths are the rise, according to a new study. Researchers behind...
