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... Journal of the American Medical Association. Figuring out who’s at risk for years-long symptoms “is such a complicated question," said Dr. Lawrence Purpura, an infectious disease expert at Columbia University. WATCH: U.S. life expectancy falls to lowest level since mid-1990s due to COVID and drug overdoses
Thursday on the NewsHour, United States life expectancy falls to the lowest level since the mid-1990s due to deaths from COVID and drug overdoses. Congress irons out the details of a massive spending bill in hopes of avoiding a government shutdown. Plus, despite the pandemic and online shopping causing ...
... only recently come to light is that loneliness won’t just make you miserable, it’ll kill you. And not just from suicide or drug overdose, but from heart disease, cancer or other kinds of physical ailments,” Nobel said. “It turns out that loneliness increases risk of early death by ...
More than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year and the same toll is expected this year. Two-thirds of those deaths are tied to fentanyl, but the federal government has been slow to recognize the rise of the highly-potent drug. Nick Miroff of The Washington Post ...
... five years ago. That led to using fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that's up to 50 times more powerful. Jeff Schultz: I mean, I accidentally overdosed, gosh, eight to 10 times on that. And that's got to be the most embarrassing, humiliating thing I have ever felt in my ...
... former President Trump's company is found guilty of tax fraud. Then, Georgia's runoff election for a U.S. Senate seat comes to an end after a contentious campaign. Plus, deaths from the synthetic opioid fentanyl rise dramatically among young people, prompting schools to stockpile medication to reverse overdose.
... fundamentally, in order to do something as dangerous as shooting up heroin every day, you have to believe that odds don't apply to you, that you're not the person who's going to get arrested, that you're not the person who's going to overdose and die.
In the last five years at Washington State, Cougars quarterback Tyler Hilinski killed himself on Jan. 16, 2018, and a little more than a year later, defensive back Bryce Beekman died of an accidental overdose. Dr. Sunday Henry, head team physician, was part of the response to both tragedies. “Your ...
... kinds have been linked to more than 500,000 deaths in the U.S. over the past two decades.In the 2000s, most fatal opioid overdoses involved prescription drugs such as OxyContin and generic oxycodone. After governments, doctors and companies took steps to make them harder to obtain, people addicted ...
... actually building cases or stemming a record flow of illegal cocaine and opioids into the United States that has driven more than 100,000 drug overdose deaths a year. “You can’t win an unwinnable war. DEA knows this and the agents know this,” Irizarry said. “There’s so much ...
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