... with badges. Election workers across the country also will have new procedures for handling mail, including kits of Narcan, the nasal spray used for accidental overdoses. In Durham County, a central feature of the new office will be a mail processing room with a separate exhaust system to contain potentially ...
... accountable for their part in facilitating illicit drug sales,” Shaheen said. But for parents like Arnold, Brown and others who already lost their children to overdoses, it is too late. “Social media companies have the ability to make their platforms drug-free zones,” DelPonte said. “Instead, they keep evading the ...
... addiction services, but the money was slow to get out the door at a time when the fentanyl crisis was causing a spike in deadly overdoses and health officials — grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic — were struggling to stand up the new treatment system, state auditors found. The new law ...
... then the insurer will only improve coverage for a less intensive treatment first. Such limitation means patients can risk bodily harm or even death through overdose or suicide. Stephanie Sy: What do insurance companies tell you by way of explaining these reimbursement and care issues? Annie Waldman: Yes, we reached ...
... was incredibly universally loved by all. It’s a shame at what happened." Chavez would be the third person to plead guilty in the aftermath of the “Friends” star’s fatal overdose last year. WATCH: 3 ways to lend or find support after a loved one dies of an overdose
Federal law enforcement officials have charged five people in connection with the death of actor Matthew Perry. They include two doctors and Perry's own assistant. The "Friends" star suffered an accidental ketamine overdose last year. At a news conference today in Los Angeles, officials said they'd uncovered a ...
... megahit sitcom. Drug-related celebrity deaths have in other cases led authorities to prosecute the people who supplied them. After rapper Mac Millerdied from an overdose of cocaine, alcohol and counterfeit oxycodone that contained fentanyl, two of the men who provided him the fentanyl were convicted of distributing the drug ...
... dropped to fourth in 2022. — The leading causes of death were heart disease, cancer and a category of injuries that includes gun deaths and drug overdoses. — There were nearly 3.1 million deaths last year in the U.S., down from 3.3 million in 2022. For many years before ...
... on small packages coming into the U.S. That would close a loophole often used to import the substances used to make illicit fentanyl. Fentanyl overdoses are a leading cause of death for Americans age 18 to 45. In South Carolina, death by firing squad is now a legal method ...
In its 2024 National Drug Threat Assessment, the Drug Enforcement Agency calls fentanyl the most urgent drug threat in the U.S. and says it and other synthetic opioids were responsible for about 70% of the 107,941 fatal overdoses in the country in 2022. “The Justice Department will not ...
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