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Nearly 50,000 people died from drug overdoses in the U.S. in 2014, a new record driven by the deaths of heroin addicts and people misusing prescription painkillers, according to new federal statistics. Last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded 47,055 drug overdose deaths, more ...
Deaths caused by heroin overdoses more than doubled between 2010 to 2012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. In a report released Friday, a study conducted in 28 states across the U.S. showed heroin overdoses increasing from 1,779 in 2010 to 3,635 in 2012. The ...
... a device that automatically injects the right dose of the drug naloxone, a long-used antidote for opioid overdoses. Nalaxone has been a mainstay of overdose treatment for years, usually administered by syringe in ambulances or emergency rooms. But with the rise in drug overdose deaths, there has been a ...
... weekend with a cocktail of 19 prescription medications, including 12 tablets of highly addictive oxycodone. Three hours later, Waggoner, 32, was dead of a drug overdose, slumped in a heap in front of his room at the Sleep Inn motel. "As a parent, you'd want to know how this ...
... that strengthen the mental health and substance use treatment system and provide greater support for providers on the ground,” he said.Federal data shows that overdose deaths fell through most of last year, suggesting a lasting improvement in an epidemic that had been worsening for decades. Still, that decline was ...
... more than 2 million jobs overall, compared with 473,000 in 2025 under Trump. Trump said 300,000 people died last year because of fentanyl overdoses, but that’s far above the most recent federal data. In the 12 months before August 2025, about 69,000 people in the U ...
... Trump because he feels the president has been a champion for combating the scourge of fentanyl, a personal issue for McDowell after his brother’s overdose death. But he also cited Trump’s efforts to strike peace deals all over the world and called him “one of the most consequential ...
... name? Dr. Christopher Morris: A car pulled up into the front of the hospital and it was a female that was unresponsive, presumably from an overdose. And Fiona said she was going to check the pupils, so she wanted me to show her how to do that. Fiona Dourif: Pupils ...
... know how many lethal doses of the drugs could have been destroyed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 73,000 U.S. drug overdose deaths from May 2024 to April 2025. That means the drugs on 32 boats would have been responsible for 800,000 deaths, nearly 11 ...
... opioid crisis that has been linked to 900,000 deaths in the U.S. since 1999. WATCH: What’s behind the significant drop in opioid overdose deaths A portion of the money is to be distributed next year to some people who had OxyContin prescriptions and their survivors. "My heart ...
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