... and in 2018 they were involved in about 46 percent of the reported overdose deaths, according to the preliminary CDC data. Strategies to reduce drug overdose deaths have included tougher policing, treatment program expansions, policies to limit opioid painkiller prescriptions and wider distribution of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone. Haffajee ...
In an effort to reduce opioid overdoses, a handful of states are requiring doctors to give, or at least offer, a prescription for naloxone to patients taking high doses of opioid painkillers. Naloxone saves lives by reversing the effects of an opioid overdose.
... infrastructure of care," a system that incorporates prevention, treatment and recovery. In an interview with The Associated Press this summer, a CDC expert said the overdose death numbers appear to be shifting for the better, but it's too soon to draw firm conclusions. Month-to-month data show a ...
Both drugs, especially fentanyl, have been linked to rising overdoses across the country. Hawk said some people got better with the help of naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal drug, while others didn't. "The most important point is when you buy something on the street, you never know what you ...
... to be a policeman or a firefighter or a paramedic to save a life," said Adams, who pointed out that more than half of opioid overdose deaths in the U.S. occur at home. According to federal data, more than 42,000 Americans suffered fatal opioid overdoses in 2016, more ...
... your hospitals are coming because of these overdoses. And, as you mentioned, 30 percent of the overdoses -- they have seen a 30 percent increase in overdoses between 2016 and 2017. And in certain places, it's been particularly bad. The Midwest was really hard-hit. Pennsylvania, Illinois, overdoses were up ...
... revealed a spike in people with possible opioid overdoses between July 2016 and September 2017, according to data from the CDC’s Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance Program. Among those regions, Midwestern emergency departments experienced the highest increase in overdoses -- up to 70 percent -- compared to those in the Southeast ...
... s a little too soon to tell,” he said, “but we may be seeing the beginning of a decline in the number of deaths in Huntington,” a small city that has the highest overdose death rate in West Virginia, the state with the highest overdose death rate in the country.
... Dave Weber: Out of the meetings came a decision that we needed some type of team to go out and speak with people that have overdosed, either their families or both, the family and the overdose victim. And somebody named it PORT, which is a Post Overdose Response Team. Esther ...
... house right there, four deaths and one person in recovery. And so this is Holden. Miles O'Brien: Less than a year ago, death by overdose came to his family. He lost his son Max, or Macky, as his family called him. He was 23. Dr. James Baker: Macky was ...
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