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Drug overdose deaths also continued to rise. The CDC does not yet have a tally for 2021 overdose deaths, because it can take weeks of lab work and investigation to identify them. But provisional data through October suggests the nation is on track to see at least 105,000 overdose ...
... bearing a child, and 31 percent more likely to die of breast cancer. Black men are 52 percent more likely to die of prostate cancer. Overdoses afflict the races about equally, while white people are 55 percent more likely to drink themselves to death through cirrhosis or chronic liver disease ...
More than half of pregnancy-linked deaths happen during the first year after delivery, according to research from the Commonwealth Fund. And mental health conditions, including postpartum depression, death by suicide and fatal drug overdose, are among the leading underlying causes of maternal mortality starting roughly six weeks after childbirth ...
... opioids becoming a common treatment for chronic pain and fueled substance abuse in West Virginia. The state has the nation’s highest rate of drug overdose deaths. Morrisey said the companies' actions created a public nuisance and violating the state's Consumer Credit and Protection Act. One by one, company ...
... Biden signaled in his State of the Union address earlier this month. The proposed spending increases on those needs and others, such as maternal health, overdose prevention and HIV-AIDS treatment and support, were intended to "leave no American behind," Health Secretary Xavier Becerra said. The budget also includes funding ...
... overdose can't be understated. Certainly, what we're seeing in terms of this acceleration of alcohol-related deaths intersects very directly with the opioid overdose epidemic.William Brangham: You touched on this before, but certainly anyone that has ever tried to get anyone into psychiatric care or substance abuse ...
... At one point, Cotton said to the nominee, "I think that not many Americans, especially not the 100,000 Americans who lost someone to drug overdose think these are tough questions." Jackson shot back: "It's not that they're difficult questions. It's that they're not questions for ...
... my book. The book, I was trying to figure out, why, with so much progress in science, have we seen increases in suicide, increases in overdose deaths, increases in morbidity and mortality for people with mental illness? And the answer is not in the science. It's not even in ...
... they be used for some pain conditions for which the potent drugs were previously considered off limits. Over the decades, there were waves of fatal overdoses, first associated with prescription drugs and then, as prescriptions became harder to obtain and some drugs became harder to manipulate for a quick high ...
... whatever type — to the consumption rooms, but they're stocked with syringes, alcohol wipes, straws for snorting, other paraphernalia and, crucially, oxygen and the opioid-overdose-reversing drug naloxone. Staffers, some of whom have used illegal drugs themselves, watch for signals of overconsumption or other needs, from advice on injection ...
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