More people die after smoking drugs than injecting them, US study finds
Smoking has surpassed injecting as the most common way of taking drugs in U.S. overdose deaths, a new government study suggests.
Feb 15, 2024
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Smoking has surpassed injecting as the most common way of taking drugs in U.S. overdose deaths, a new government study suggests.
Feb 15, 2024
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Two deaths in Boulder County, Colorado, in 2023 are the latest in the U.S. to be blamed on the powerful class of synthetic opioids called nitazenes. Most health systems cannot detect nitazenes, so the exact number of overdoses ...
Feb 15, 2024
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Canada's growing income inequality is having an impact on Canadians' mental and physical health, according to public health researchers at the University of Alberta.
Feb 7, 2024
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An analysis of data for more than 500,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in the U.S. found key differences in outcomes between cardiac arrests caused by drug overdoses and cardiac arrests due to other causes, according to ...
Jan 31, 2024
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With several drug overdoses already this season, and recent news of three new recreational drugs identified by the drug checking service in Canberra, many parents of teenagers will be wondering how they can keep their kids ...
Jan 22, 2024
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The first pill for postpartum depression approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is now available, but experts worry that minority and low-income women, who are disproportionately affected by the condition, won't ...
Jan 15, 2024
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This year, about $1.5 billion has landed in state and local government coffers from court settlements made with more than a dozen companies that manufactured, sold, or distributed prescription painkillers and were sued for ...
Dec 30, 2023
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Drug overdose deaths in the United States continue to rise.
Nov 28, 2023
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The gap in life expectancy between American men and women is now the biggest it has been since the mid-1990s—almost six years.
Nov 13, 2023
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An analysis co-led by a Brown public health researcher has found that the nation's first two government-sanctioned overdose prevention centers were not associated with significant changes in crime.
Nov 13, 2023
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