... health emergency last October and the federal government is expected to spend a record $4.6 billion this year to fight the opioid crisis. Drug overdose deaths involving opioids rose to about 46,000 for the 12-month period that ended in October 2017, up about 15 percent from October ...
... Philadelphia's attorneys had argued the move is unconstitutional and that it harms residents by withholding money earmarked to help buy kits to counteract opioid overdoses. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has said that cities that don't help enforce immigration law are endangering public safety, especially when it comes to ...
... in terms of the substance abuse, drug trafficking, drug changing, you know, to new designer drugs. MEGAN THOMPSON: Last year, the Kokomo area had 44 overdose deaths - almost double the number during the previous year. The number of people put in jail has increased 18% over the last two years ...
... The denials drew an angry response from Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., whose state has had the nation's highest death rate from drug overdoses. "The fury inside me right now is bubbling over," he told the executives. He added later, "I think you very much were responsible." George ...
... Bill de Blasio said the city will develop plans to open up to four safe injection sites for heroin users. Supporters say the sites decrease overdoses because there are staff with naloxone, which helps reverse the effects of an overdose, and that they also reduce diseases spread through sharing needles ...
The pathway to deadly heart infections for people addicted to opioids often begins with a dirty needle or polluted drug. Special correspondent Kay Colby of Ideastream reports on a little-known problem with big consequences for patients and society as a whole. ... Judy Woodruff: While statistics about overdose deaths from ...
... prescribe it. A recent study of Medicare claims found prescriptions for buprenorphine for only 81,000 patients. More evidence that the crisis affects seniors: Opioid overdoses killed 1,354 Americans ages 65 and older in 2016, about 3 percent of the 42,000 opioid overdoses that year. Medicare's policy ...
... men who were arrested said today there were moments that they wondered if they would survive the incident. No criminal charges will filed in the overdose death of the musician Prince in April 2016. A Minnesota prosecutor announced today that there's no clear evidence of how Prince obtained the ...
The settlement between the U.S. Attorney's Office and Dr. Michael Todd Schulenberg comes as state prosecutors prepared to announce Thursday morning whether they'll file any criminal charges stemming from their two-year investigation into Prince's death.
Opioid prescriptions and daily doses rose steadily starting in the 1990s, fueled by factors including marketing of new opioid pills such as Oxycontin. The U.S. is estimated to consume roughly 30 percent of all opioids used worldwide.
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