... including OxyContin, during a series of surgeries when he was 13 and 14 years old. He died in 2017 at age 21 of a heroin overdose after years of rehab and relapses. His mother is now on a committee of victims seeking input in the process. "I spent my whole ...
... for president? Andrew Yang: What I would say to Americans is, look, record highs in this country right now -- stress, financial insecurity, depression, suicides, drug overdoses, student loan debt. And they sense this. They feel it. When they see the headline stat on the TV screen, they're not saying ...
According to CDC data, a third of preventable maternal deaths happen up to 365 days after childbirth, she said. If not directly related to pregnancy complications, these deaths could occur for a variety of reasons -- after a mother loses treatment for opioid use disorder, relapses and overdoses, or from a ...
... facing a federal criminal investigation. The Wall Street Journal and others report that the focus is their role in the epidemic of opioid addiction and overdoses. The drugmakers include Amneal, Johnson & Johnson, Mallinckrodt, and Teva, along with distributors AmerisourceBergen and McKesson.On Wall Street today, major indexes finished at ...
... against the opioid crisis.” Trump has made tackling the misuse of opioids an administration priority. More than 70,000 Americans died in 2017 from drug overdoses, the bulk of them involving opioids. Trump is required to be paid, but he has pledged to donate his salary while in office to ...
... aggressive and misleading marketing campaign that overstated how effective the drugs were for treating chronic pain and understated the risk of addiction. Hunter says opioid overdoses killed 4,653 people in the state from 2007 to 2017. Attorneys for the state have argued abating the opioid crisis in Oklahoma would ...
... without it. Hari Sreenivasan: 39-year-old Antoine Diaz has struggled with addiction for more than a decade. He lost his brother to a heroin overdose last year. Antoine Diaz: This time when I relapsed my twin brother was dead. And that's when it's, it's easier to ...
... Congress for treatment and working with the private sector on promoting drug "take back" days. More than 70,000 Americans died in 2017 from drug overdoses, the bulk of them involving opioids. Future developments include plans to more closely integrate the site with the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide ...
Ohio in 2017 had the second-highest death rate due from drug overdoses in the U.S., behind only West Virginia. In a statement, the three major distributors said the settlement money should be used in a focused way on such things as treatment, rehab and mental health services. The ...
... change practices as a way to make a dent in the opioid crisis. The epidemic has become more complicated in the past decade, with fatal overdose numbers rising largely because of illicit drugs such as heroin and fentanyl. Overall, there have been more than 400,000 deaths linked to opioids ...
Support Provided By: Learn more
Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else.
Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm.