The United States faces a converging public health crisis as the nation's opioid epidemic fuels growing rates of certain infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, heart infections, and skin and soft tissue infections. ...
Apr 3, 2019
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New York is suing the billionaire family behind the company that created OxyContin, joining a growing list of state and local governments seeking to hold not only the firm but its owners accountable for the nation's opioid ...
Mar 28, 2019
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In 2017 alone, 47,600 Americans died from opioid overdoses. That's 130 people every day.
Mar 22, 2019
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An increasing proportion of all cardiac arrests occurring outside of the hospital are related to drug overdoses, according to a new study conducted by two University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix students.
Mar 13, 2019
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Addiction to prescription opioids has reached a crisis level in the United States. Now the drug is causing concern across the Atlantic. Researchers from Denmark, Norway and Sweden urge caution after discovering that prescriptions ...
Mar 12, 2019
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"Show me the bodies!" someone demanded at the end of my lecture a few years ago.
Mar 6, 2019
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Hospital admissions for a dangerous heart infection related to intravenous drug use increased by 436 percent from 2012-2017 at a medical center in a region hit hard by the nation's opioid crisis, according to research presented ...
Mar 6, 2019
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Google is launching a new effort in the fight against the nation's opioid crisis.
Feb 22, 2019
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In the nation's opioid epidemic, the carnage is far from over.
Feb 11, 2019
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In 2016, the powerful drug fentanyl claimed the life of music legend Prince and has, in recent years, largely contributed to the next wave of America's opioid crisis.
Jan 30, 2019
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