... opioids and benzodiazepines — commonly used to treat anxiety and insomnia —at the same time, which "puts patients at a greater risk of a potentially fatal overdose." The Indian Health Service said it implemented a tool to track the dosages, and all of its facilities reported data in the first quarter ...
Despite the lower number of fatal overdoses compared to whites, opioids and drug abuse in general is still a rampant problem in many communities of color. “When you look at 2017, the opioid overdose death rate for white non-Hispanics was 19.4 percent. We've seen a doubling of ...
... struggle, but he finally weaned himself off of opioids, and now relies mostly on medical marijuana, which, unlike those prescription painkillers, has never caused an overdose death.But government studies show 9 percent of those who use marijuana will become dependent on the drug, much better than alcohol, at about ...
MIAMI — Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill that authorizes Florida counties to establish programs that allow intravenous drug users to exchange used needles for clean ones. The measure is modeled after a Miami-based program which also provides HIV screening, access to social services, the opioid-overdose antidote Narcan ...
... through their country from Central, from Honduras and Guatemala, El Salvador.” — Fox News interview Thursday. THE FACTS: Trump is inflating the death toll from drug overdoses — more than 70,200 in 2017 — and wrongly blaming all the known deaths on Mexico. Tens of thousands of those deaths have nothing to ...
One of the people Pell is convicted of molesting died of a heroin overdose in 2014 aged 31, apparently without ever alleging he had been abused. State law prohibits identifying either victim. The other, now in his 30s, became the key prosecution witness. He first came to police in 2015 ...
... wrongful death lawsuits have been filed against the doctor and the hospital system. Families alleged their loved ones were negligently or intentionally killed by painkiller overdoses ordered by Husel. Some also have questioned whether they were misled about the graveness of the patients' conditions. Mount Carmel has publicly apologized and ...
... by the defense repeatedly during Pell's trial and was "quite misleading in lots of ways." One of Pell's victims died of a heroin overdose in 2014 at the age of 31, apparently without making any accusation of abuse. State law prevents victims of sexual assault from being publicly ...
... fraud in 1974. When she's out on bail she is suspected of homicide. A woman that she was living with died of a drug overdose and there is very strong reason to believe that Taylor had been responsible for it and yet she isn't ultimately charged. When the ...
... the epidemic by deceptively marketing the painkillers. The company has denied the claim. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated opioid-related overdoses killed more than 47,000 Americans in 2017 alone. Officials in Iran today said that they see no prospect of nuclear negotiations with the ...
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