Columnist Teri Sforza writes that researchers are searching for medication to help and several look promising.
A 17-year-old boy with shaggy blond hair stepped onto the scale at Tri-River Family Health Center in Uxbridge, Massachusetts.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends offering buprenorphine to teens addicted to opioids. But only 6% of pediatricians report ever doing so.
OBJECTIVES/GOALS: Xylazine is a strong sedative and fentanyl contaminant which has been increasingly detected in drug overdose deaths in Maryland ... of which the mean age was 44.4 years and 73.3% ...
Since then, the Beaver State has seen a significant uptick in homelessness, homicides and overdose deaths. In 2020, unintentional opioid overdose deaths clocked in at 472 and hit at least 628 in ...
Overdose deaths from opioids, including fentanyl, have almost doubled in some areas since drugs were decriminalised Credit: PATRICK T FALLON/AFP Drug overdose deaths increased by about 44 per cent ...
McGee was sentenced to serve several three-year sentences concurrently ... Maschari’s family and a woman whose son also died of an overdose where McGee provided the narcotics spoke.
Americans concerned about the politicization of our legal system won’t be comforted by the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Walmart’s alleged role in the opioid crisis, which looked ...
For the past 6 years ... to study the overdose crisis and take action to solve it. Project Opioid’s research revealed 2022 was the first year Florida saw a decrease in opioid deaths of around ...
To understand the 2024 US presidential election, it is essential to understand the politics of fentanyl. Americans have been traumatized by a years-long wave of overdose deaths caused by the ...
MARGATE - A father grieving his son's death prepared to roll across the country for three months in a trailer ... study finding rising numbers of overdose deaths nationwide between 2020 and ...
Rates of exposure to drug overdose deaths were significantly higher in New England and the East South Central region, which includes Kentucky. Dr. Julie Cerel, a professor and licensed ...