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 ...
Although our society currently finds itself focused on the tragic epidemic of opioid overdoses, there remains no better example of the deadly power of addiction than nicotine. The measure of a drug’s addictiveness is not how much pleasure (or reward) it causes but how reinforcing it is—that is ...
... become a critical public health crisis in the U.S. -- and much publicized -- over the last few years. More than 40 percent of all opioid overdose deaths in 2016 involved a prescription, according to the CDC. Some states are working to counteract liberal prescribing practices. California has had a prescription ...
During a September 2016 Poynter Institute seminar on opioids in the U.S., Dr. Debra Houry, who directs the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, said the United States would reverse skyrocketing rates of opioid misuse and overdose, “if we can stop the tide of people getting ...
... and the opioid crisis. Cabarrus County, where Concord is located, has one of the highest incidents of emergency room visits from heroin and prescription drug overdoses in North Carolina. Steele wants beginning teachers to be paid $55,000, which she says the state can afford to do if it reduces ...
... Rapids, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) north of Minneapolis, until she was 4, when her family moved to Los Angeles. She died of a barbiturate overdose in 1969. The Judy Garland Museum, which opened in 1975 in the house where she lived, says it has the world's largest collection ...
The House bill includes an iteration of “Jessie’s Law,” named for a Michigan woman in recovery from an opioid addiction who overdosed after a post-surgical oxycodone prescription. It would eliminate a restriction that information on past substance use treatment can only be released with patient consent. The charge ...
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