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... also vowed to conduct a “sweeping review” of opioids. Last year, U.S. overdose deaths soared to a record of 107,000, driven overwhelmingly by fentanyl and other illegal opioids. Opioid prescriptions have fallen about 40 percent in the last decade but deaths tied to the medications remain at 13 ...
... was sort of the tragic dilemma of his life. Jeffrey Brown: On September 6, 2021, Michael K. Williams was found dead of an overdose of fentanyl-laced heroin. He was 54. Four men were charged for distributing the drugs that led to his overdose.Dominic Dupont: In a few weeks ...
John Yang: And what are people getting here? What's being handed out? Dr. Kanika Cunningham: Food. They're given Narcan that is there, fentanyl testing strips as well. If people need access to sign up for Medicaid, so we get them -- at least start the initial process. We will ...
The opioid epidemic has been linked to more than 500,000 deaths in the U.S. over the past two decades, counting those from prescription painkillers such as OxyContin and generic oxycodone as well as illicit drugs such as heroin and illegally produced fentanyl. The surge in deaths has led ...
... fentanyl. So, we saw 20 percent fentanyl in 2015. And it gradually increased over the next five years to now we're seeing 95 percent fentanyl in our street drugs. And fentanyl is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine. John Yang: And I just want to make sure ...
... first,” said Gupta.CDC data released in May indicates that deaths from drug overdoses in the U.S. reached a record-high in 2021. More than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2021, the highest annual death toll ever recorded. Deaths from fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine rose sharply.
... increase began in the 1990s with overdoses involving opioid painkillers, followed by waves of deaths led by other opioids like heroin and — most recently — illicit fentanyl. Last year, overdoses involving fentanyl and other synthetic opioids surpassed 71,000, up 23 percent from the year before. There also was a 23 ...
... effective medication for reversing overdoses, Narcan or naloxone, which works if you're overdosing with opioids. But if you're overdosing with methamphetamine contaminated with fentanyl, naloxone does not -- is not as effective, will not be effective if you're -- if what you have is a combination of toxicity. So ...
... to rescue some migrants, and also for those migrants. There's a lot of concern about traffickers, smugglers, that we have seen an increase in fentanyl seizures, about 50 percent in a year. There's real concern about drug trafficking and whether that there is enough control over an expected ...
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