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... 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 ...
... went to prison at 18 years old. That was just the way it was, just the way it is. My father died from a heroin overdose a week before we were born. My mom was a heroin addict well until my adulthood, witnessing overdoses in my house, and murder outside ...
... decades. "We're pleased with the settlement achieved in mediation, under which all of the additional settlement funds will be used for opioid abatement programs, overdose rescue medicines, and victims," Purdue Pharma said in a statement issued separately from the family's. "With this mediation result, we continue on track ...
... opioid pain reliever, and fentanyl, a synthetic opioid. Jessica Burch, of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, was a patient of Kahn’s who died from an overdose in 2015. He wrote nearly 15,000 prescriptions for controlled substances between 2011 and the end of 2016, totaling nearly 2.2 million pills ...
... expected $86 million share this year for youth opioid education and to train treatment providers, improve data collection and distribute naloxone, a drug that reverses overdoses. In Florida's Broward County, home to Fort Lauderdale, the number of beds in a county-run detoxification facility could be expanded from 50 ...
"Nothing that Dr. Califf has said or done has led me to believe he will operate the FDA any differently than he did during his previous tenure," said Manchin, whose home state has been ravaged for decades by opioid addiction and overdoses. The White House long assumed enough Republicans ...
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