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... behavioral health problems, like domestic abuse and misusing substances. CDC numbers show the pandemic has exacerbated the suffering of Americans struggling with substance use. Drug overdose deaths have reached historic highs. Many urban Indigenous programs do outreach specifically aimed at behavioral health problems. But the programs don’t exist everywhere ...
... close. Anthony saw his sister's descent. She started drinking and taking pills, and became self-destructive. She got a DUI. She died of an overdose. But, in counseling, Anthony says she was told not to tell anyone anything. Anthony Graham: They heard her story. And then, right afterwards, they ...
... spans fell in this country by a year on average in the first half of 2020. That is the largest drop since World War II. Overdoses, heart attacks and other illnesses are part of that. But researchers say the pandemic undoubtedly is a major factor. Moreover, the gaps along racial ...
... important to you to write about it? Rep. Madeleine Dean: I think for those reasons. You know, this past year, 81,000 people died of overdose from addiction. That's more than 200 people a day, every single day, 365 days a year. So, we thought that, if we wrote ...
... and used a wheelchair the rest of his life. He fought battles with drug and alcohol addiction, and his fourth wife died of a heroin overdose. His daughter, Lisa Flynt-Fugate, died in a 2014 car crash in Ohio at age 47.With a fortune estimated at more than $100 ...
... the more egregious tactics that the complaint alleges was proposed by McKinsey consultants was giving the idea to give rebates to pharmacies when their customers overdosed on OxyContin. Now, there's no evidence that that was actually enacted, but, Madam Attorney General, what does that tell you about these entities ...
... also sued Giuliani and Powell. A consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, has agreed to pay almost $600 million for boosting U.S. opioid sales as overdoses surged. Court documents showed McKinsey worked closely with Purdue Pharma to market more OxyContin. McKinsey says that it has reached agreements with every state ...
... and McKinsey's fees all skyrocketed," said Stein, whose state stands to receive nearly $19 million in the settlement. "But so did the number of overdoses." Stein said the settlement funds could go toward addiction treatment in health care settings, as well as in jails, plus programs like needle exchanges ...
... estimate that is likely an undercount — compared to 2,815 deaths in the same amount of time before the pandemic. Washington, D.C., saw drug overdose deaths increase nearly 60 percent — the largest change in the country. While drug overdose deaths began to rise prior to the COVID-19 pandemic ...
... committed to the research and treatment of substance abuse, a personal cause for Sheldon Adelson. His son Mitchell, from his first marriage, died of an overdose in 2005. (Sheldon Adelson would spend millions opposing state efforts to legalize marijuana). Sheldon Garry Adelson was born in 1933, in the Dorchester neighborhood ...
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