Medications
Research traces primary cause of opioid epidemic—it's not despair
Why did America become so addicted to opioids?
Jan 26, 2018
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News tagged with heroin epidemic
Medications
Four-fold jump in deaths in opioid-driven hospitalizations
People who end up in the hospital due to an opioid-related condition are four times more likely to die now than they were in 2000, according to research led by Harvard Medical School and published in the December issue of ...
Dec 4, 2017
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Medications
Baby-boomers and millennials more afflicted by the opioid epidemic
Baby-boomers, those born between 1947 and 1964, experienced an excess risk of prescription opioid overdose death and heroin overdose death, according to latest research at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. ...
Nov 21, 2017
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Medications
Opioid epidemic shares chilling similarities with the past
While declaring the opioid crisis a national public health emergency Thursday, President Donald Trump said: "Nobody has seen anything like what's going on now."
Oct 28, 2017
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Medications
More Australians dying of accidental overdose of pharmaceutical opioids
In a reversal of the heroin epidemic of the late 90s and early 2000s, older Australians aged 35 to 54 are now more likely to die from an opioid overdose, a new report reveals.
Jul 24, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Hepatitis C nearly triples in US in 5 years
The number of hepatitis C infections have nearly tripled in the United States in the last five years, particularly among people in their 20s, researchers said Thursday.
May 11, 2017
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Medications
Holistic approach to pain management helps curb opioid overuse
The holistic approach to patient care and pain management used by Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) can help prevent opioid dependency, substance use disorder, drug overdoses and death, according to the American ...
Sep 23, 2016
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Medications
Advocates fear more heroin withdrawal deaths in jails
Heroin withdrawal is rarely fatal, but more than a half-dozen people have died behind bars in the U.S. during the last two years after suffering from severe symptoms that their families say went untreated.
Jul 11, 2016
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Medications
Kroger to offer anti-overdose drug without prescription
Ohio-based grocery chain Kroger Co. said Friday it will make the overdose-reversal drug naloxone available without a prescription in its pharmacies across Ohio and northern Kentucky, a region hard-hit by deadly heroin.
Feb 12, 2016
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Addiction
Drug overdose epidemic top cause of US injury deaths
Drug overdoses have reached epidemic levels in the United States where they are the leading cause of injury deaths, surpassing car accidents and gunshots, the Drug Enforcement Administration said Wednesday.
Nov 4, 2015
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