... I use cocaine. I need the upper, and I don’t want anything to do with fentanyl.’” Demographic Variation Hardest hit in the recent stimulant overdose death scourge were Midwestern, Northeastern and Southern states where both meth and cocaine use were on the rise, according to the CDC. The District ...
... trip to Ohio and West Virginia, where she'll visit a town that sued drug companies. Warren ties the opioid epidemic to the influence of drug companies' "money and power" in America. Drug companies have largely denied that their distribution practices contributed to the nation's rising opioid overdose rate.
... us, that he was going to be famous. Jeffrey Brown: And famous, he became. Since his death in 1988 at age 27 from a heroin overdose, Basquiat's reputation and the demand for his work have skyrocketed. His now iconic lines, figures, and handwritten texts are regularly displayed in the ...
... or hormone therapy. AIDS United warned the exemptions could also extend to HIV treatments and naloxone, which is used as a reversal drug for opioid overdoses. Conscience protections are now technically enforceable for those who object to comprehensive approaches to combating HIV/AIDS, which can include medical recommendations for condoms ...
... a spotlight on the federal government's efforts to go after those it views as responsible for fueling the nation's deadly opioid crisis. Opioid overdoses claimed nearly 400,000 lives in the U.S. between 1999 and 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An estimated ...
... at a news conference. They didn't immediately name those being charged. U.S. health authorities have reported there were more than 70,000 drug overdose deaths in 2017, for a rate of 21.7 per 100,000 people. West Virginia and Ohio have regularly been among the states with ...
... should be referring you straight to treatment, and not a jail cell. And in other countries, that has reduced both the usage rate and the overdose rate over time. Lisa Desjardins: I want to turn to foreign policy. We're in a time of very significant global tension. And there ...
... own lives. Many used guns, sometimes in places where firearms weren’t allowed or should have been securely stored. Others hanged themselves, jumped from windows, overdosed on pills or suffocated themselves with plastic bags. (The analysis did not examine medical aid-in-dying, a rare and restricted method by which ...
... Pharma, which manufacturers OxyContin, an opioid sold and abused throughout the crisis. More than 400,000 people have died in the past two decades from overdoses involving legal and illegal opioids, according to the federal government. At least three dozen states and more than 1,500 cities and counties are ...
... to tobacco industry settlements from the 1990s, saying these agreements “are not structured to meaningfully improve access to treatment or take other measures to reduce overdose deaths.” “The amount and structure of the settlement enables the state to do a victory lap, while allowing the pharmaceutical giant to walk away ...
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