Medications
Over four decades, an epidemic of drug overdoses reveals its inner secrets
Americans have long construed drugs of abuse as choices. Poor choices that can cost users their lives, to be sure, but choices nonetheless.
Sep 28, 2018
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Medications
Drug overdose epidemic has been growing exponentially for decades
Death rates from drug overdoses in the U.S. have been on an exponential growth curve that began at least 15 years before the mid-1990s surge in opioid prescribing, suggesting that overdose death rates may continue along this ...
Sep 20, 2018
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Medications
Opioid deaths 1999 to 2015 may be dramatically underestimated
(HealthDay)—States may be greatly underestimating the effect of opioid-related overdose deaths because of incomplete cause-of-death reporting, according to a study recently published in Public Health Reports.
Sep 19, 2018
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Medications
Canada opioid deaths hits 8,000
More than 1,000 Canadians died of an apparent opioid overdose in the first three months of this year, bringing the toll since the public health crisis erupted in 2016 to 8,000, the public health agency said Tuesday.
Sep 18, 2018
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Addiction
Combatting the opioid epidemic
In the U.S. 115 people die from opioids every day. The number of opioid overdoses increased fivefold from 1999 to 2016. While increased funding for resources like Narcan has helped—the opioid overdose-reversing drug now ...
Sep 18, 2018
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Addiction
Drug users trying to stay ahead of deadly fentanyl
(HealthDay)—As deadly fentanyl is increasingly mixed into heroin and other street drugs, some drug abusers are getting smart, a new study finds.
Sep 17, 2018
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Medications
Highest opioid-related mortality seen in construction jobs
(HealthDay)—Proportional mortality ratios (PMRs) for heroin-related overdose deaths and methadone-related overdose deaths from 2007 to 2012 were highest among construction workers, according to research published in the ...
Sep 13, 2018
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Medications
New Yorkers who use drugs report changing behaviors to avoid overdose
People who use drugs in New York City have adjusted their behaviors to avoid overdose, finds a study by the Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research (CDUHR) at NYU Meyers College of Nursing and NYU College of Global Public ...
Sep 12, 2018
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Medications
Fear of police stop and search can deter opioid users from carrying anti-overdose kits
The levels of fatal overdose in the UK are catastrophic. More than 4,500 people died of a drug-related death in 2017 alone. In Scotland, the figure totalled 934, the highest ever annually recorded. Drug mortality rates in ...
Sep 12, 2018
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US drug overdose deaths surge amid fentanyl scourge
US drug overdose deaths surged to nearly 72,000 last year, as addicts increasingly turn to extremely powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl as the supply of prescription painkillers has tightened.
Aug 16, 2018
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