... 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 ...
Back in this country, the CDC proposed today to ease guidelines on how doctors prescribe opioid painkillers. Since 2016, there have been strict limits on the drugs, in an effort to slow an overdose epidemic. The proposed changes would give doctors more leeway in treating patients with severe pain. The ...
... that on video from inside a convenience store before his fatal encounter with police, Floyd did not appear to be seriously intoxicated or experiencing an overdose. But he did not dispute a store clerk's earlier testimony that Floyd seemed high. "He was awake, walking, communicating, walking quickly at times ...
William Brangham: Like many of us, I know that this issue is deeply personal for you. Your nephew Ian struggled for many years with addiction and eventually died of an overdose. And, as you have commented publicly, this touches so many people in this country, Republicans, Democrats and everybody else ...
... had pledged that he would fire any abusive staffer on the spot. A bipartisan congressional commission is calling for a new strategy on the opioid overdose epidemic. In a report today, the group envisions stepped-up law enforcement and diplomacy to shut off ingredients for synthetic opioids. It also called ...
... never thought in my lifetime I’d have to shoot Narcan into somebody, but I did,” he said, referring to the treatment that reverses opioid overdoses. “I witnessed a man be shot. I witnessed stabbings. That was not a good place.” The 54-year-old sets out on his bike ...
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