... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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