• Freshwater is getting saltier, threatening people and wildlife

    Freshwater is getting saltier, threatening people and wildlife

    Dec 09, 2018 05:48 PM EST

    ... 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 ...

  • Kendrick Lamar leads Grammy noms; female artists make gains

    Kendrick Lamar leads Grammy noms; female artists make gains

    Dec 07, 2018 07:45 PM EST

    ... 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 ...

  • Michael Bloomberg's charity donates $50 million to fight opioid epidemic

    Michael Bloomberg's charity donates $50 million to fight opioid epidemic

    Nov 30, 2018 02:35 PM EST

    ... 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 ...

  • News Wrap: Trump cancels Putin meeting at upcoming G-20

    News Wrap: Trump cancels Putin meeting at upcoming G-20

    Nov 29, 2018 11:40 PM EST

    ... 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 ...

  • American life expectancy has dropped again. Here's why

    American life expectancy has dropped again. Here's why

    Nov 29, 2018 09:33 PM EST

    ... 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 ...

  • News Wrap: Trump and Obama rally voters ahead of Election Day

    News Wrap: Trump and Obama rally voters ahead of Election Day

    Nov 02, 2018 10:50 PM EST

    ... 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 ...

  • Heroin, fentanyl remain among nation's greatest drug threats, federal report says

    Heroin, fentanyl remain among nation's greatest drug threats, federal report says

    Nov 02, 2018 01:10 PM EST

    Fatal heroin overdoses rose nationwide between 2015 and 2016, with a nearly 25 percent increase in the Northeast and more than 22 percent in the South. Most of the heroin sold in the U.S. is being trafficked from Mexico, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seize the ...

  • Trump signs opioid bill, father who lost son says we need a bigger ‘Band-aid’

    Trump signs opioid bill, father who lost son says we need a bigger ‘Band-aid’

    Oct 24, 2018 10:35 PM EST

    ... does to a community, it's fentanyl. William Brangham: The law also contains money for research into non-addictive pain treatment, more distribution of anti-overdose medications, and more education about best practices for prescribing drugs. Across the country, local officials are pursuing their own various efforts to combat the ...

  • WATCH: Trump delivers remarks on opioid epidemic

    WATCH: Trump delivers remarks on opioid epidemic

    Oct 24, 2018 06:06 PM EST

    ... borders," Zach Hunter, communications director for the House Energy and Commerce Committee said in a statement to the network. The number of U.S. drug overdose deaths has begun to level off after years of relentless increases driven by the opioid epidemic, health secretary Alex Azar said Tuesday, cautioning it ...

  • In public, lawmakers scold drug distributors. Come campaign season, they accept their cash willingly

    In public, lawmakers scold drug distributors. Come campaign season, they accept their cash willingly

    Oct 13, 2018 06:31 PM EST

    ... is expected to sign this month. “No member of Congress has done more than Chairman Walden to end the deadly cycle of diversion, addiction, and overdose,” said a committee spokesman, Zach Hunter. “Any suggestion otherwise ignores his historic efforts to fight the opioid epidemic.” A spokesman for Pallone also pointed ...