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... 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 ...
... Pharma, did not immediately return a call seeking comment. Oklahoma sued opioid manufacturers in 2017, accusing them of fraudulent marketing that led to thousands of overdoses and deaths. State officials have said that since 2009, more Oklahomans have died from opioids than in vehicle crashes.This month, Purdue Pharma officials ...
Don Winslow: And all you have to do is look at the numbers. Since he was captured and recaptured or re-recaptured, the importation of drugs into America has not fallen, it's risen. The number of overdose deaths have not fallen, it's risen. Jeff Greenfield: And as for ...
... health outcomes without intervention or treatment, possibly perpetuating more overdoses and deaths. “We're cautiously optimistic that providers are changing their behavior, but we really do have quite a ways to go,” Maestas said. “Until we see overdose mortality come down, we can't say we've figured this out.”
... is no rest for me. Everything is overshadowed by the forthcoming appeal." The father of one of Pell's victims who died of a heroin overdose in 2014 at the age of 31 paid tribute to his son's childhood friend for speaking out. "I commend the young fellow who ...
... drug prices. In his State of the Department address on Feb. 22, he said lowering prescription drug prices was one of his top four policy priorities for 2019, along with combating opioid overdoses and deaths, improving the individual insurance market and injecting value-based practices into the health care system.
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