... make knives or build a backpack guitar, the arts tend to deliver a soothing, beneficial effect. Evans said one student in her ceramics class had overdosed on opioids so many times that he developed motor skill issues. He couldn’t control the pressure he applied to an item -- if he ...
... as it reduces medical debt and improves access to needed care.--Joan Alker, executive director for Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University Reducing overdose deaths Numerous studies show that overdose rates for those who were recently released from incarceration (specifically within the first two weeks of release) are ...
... and emergency departments, where fentanyl is routinely administered as a pain reliever. Doctors, nurses, and others in emergency departments who care for victims of fentanyl overdose are undoubtedly exposed to these drugs on patients’ clothing, skin, and paraphernalia. Workers in needle exchange programs and supervised consumption facilities are routinely exposed ...
... filed a motion more than two years ago to unseal the records — which were stored in a courthouse in a rural county hit hard by overdose deaths. STAT won a lower-court order in May 2016 to release the documents, but after Purdue appealed, the judge stayed that order. “We ...
... rushing in while trying to hold on to the salts,” Olson notes. But when the salt levels suddenly go up, the animals may get an overdose, adds entomologist John Jackson, who was not involved in Olson’s study. The Stroud Water Research Center in Pennsylvania, where Jackson is based, has ...
... is up for best rock performance with "When Bad Does Good." Demi Lovato, who relapsed after six years of sobriety and was hospitalized for an overdose in July, earned a nomination for best pop duo/group performance for "Fall In Line," her duet with Christina Aguilera. Those who earned four ...
... aspirations and the $50 million investment to fight opioids. Bloomberg's charity said CDC data shows there were more than 70,000 U.S. drug overdose deaths last year, including more than 47,000 from opioids, the highest numbers on record. It said those numbers are a leading factor in ...
... 8 million, driven not just by the elderly, but by younger and middle ages as well. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention blamed drug overdoses and the most suicides in 50 years. It says, as a result, life expectancy decreased for the second time in three years. A baby ...
... targeting the opioid crisis; continuous training for anyone in the medical field who has authority to prescribe opioids; and more resources for opioid addiction treatment, overdose reversal and recovery. But have those efforts made a dent in the 2018 number of fatal drug overdoses? Anderson said it is too early ...
... to the fighting in Yemen. It pits a Sunni coalition led by Saudi Arabia against Shiite rebels aligned with Iran. Back in this country, drug overdose deaths rose to an all-time high in 2017, driven by the opioid crisis. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency reports 72,000 people ...
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