Sentences with phrase «needs opioid addiction»

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Why is our provincial government unable to meet the needs of people and families desperate to find help when it comes to opioid addiction?

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- New York state will soon have a new law intended to help people struggling with heroin and opioid addiction get the care they need.

He said Attorney General George Jepsen, who is not running for re-election, has set a good example for the kind of work the state's top attorney needs to do across state lines on issues like opioid addiction and net neutrality.

«From awareness to services, New York is aggressively working to provide individuals the help and support they need to combat addiction,» said Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, Co-Chair of the Heroin and Opioid Task Force.

There is a desperate need for more services for people struggling with opioid addiction, said Dr. Gale R. Burstein, the county's health commissioner, who lives in Amherst.

Poverty - related issues such as homelessness or family crisis treatment like opioid addiction need more than a simple infusion of cash.

We also recognize the need for dedicated staff to support the Department's Health's rapidly expanding role as a lead agency in the fight against opioid addictions.

In Vestal, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul said the state needs to change the «trajectory» its on for heroin and opioid addiction as the administration's task force completes a tour of the state.

In the last four years, Albany County has seen a 23 percent increase in children needing foster care because of parents afflicted by opioid addiction, mental health issues or domestic violence.

New York state will soon have a new law intended to help people struggling with heroin and opioid addiction get the care they need.

WHEREAS, the Erie County Department of Mental Health has identified the need for additional inpatient beds, out - patient slots, community - based mediation - assisted treatment with methadone and suboxone, and related services to treat those suffering from opioid addiction; and

The County Executive's proposal allocated $ 375,000 to create a local hotline to those in need of assistance for themselves or a loved one battling opioid or heroin addiction.

The governor also suggests it would gut the funding needed to continue an ongoing effort against opioid addiction.

«Family and friends of those struggling with addiction often feel helpless and the worst case scenario of a fatal overdose is always looming,» said Sherlita Amler, MD, Commissioner of Health, who writes the standing orders that cover the prescriptions needed for the county to participate in the New York State Opioid Overdose Prevention Program.

TOMPKINS COUNTY, NY - Sen. Charles Schumer on Friday addressed the need for more support by the federal government to help communities struggling in the battle against Opioid Addiction.

As a Co-chair of the Joint Senate Task Force on Heroin & Opioid Addiction, I recognize that communities across our state are in need of additional resources to fight this epidemic, and I look forward to working with my colleagues in Albany to help address those needs.

In addressing the symposium held in the AAAS Auditorium, Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse, said the opioid addiction problem «came out of the health care system» after it was determined that opioid prescription medicine was needed to treat chronic pain affecting more than 100 million Americans.

Naltrexone needs to be made readily available in the medicine kits of the families and friends of anyone with an opioid addiction disorder, Ciccarone said, adding, «It needs to be this generation's EpiPen.»

Among other initiatives needed are more rigorous analysis of the potency of illicit drugs being sold on the streets, information campaigns to inform the public of the analyses results and likely dangers, more treatment therapies to ease withdrawal symptoms, programs to get primary care doctors to treat and screen for addictions and wider distribution of Naltrexone, which can reverse an opioid overdose, said Ciccarone.

Nationally, only about one in five individuals who needed treatment for opioid addiction received treatment in the past year, and fewer received the most effective treatments, such as buprenorphine.

With an estimated 60,000 drug overdose deaths in 2016 alone, the researchers emphasize the need for the American health care system to embrace medications such as methadone to treat opioid use disorder, provide addiction treatment in primary care clinics and develop non-addictive alternatives for chronic pain.

The program, launched in 2016 and the only one of its kind in the nation, screens all Rhode Island inmates for opioid use disorder and provides medications for addiction treatment (MAT) for those who need it.

Deflating gabapentinoids» hype as an opioid alternative will leave many physicians back where they started — with an immediate need for drugs that treat pain without the addiction risks of opioids.

The findings could provide a pathway for preventing addiction in patients who need opioid - based medication for chronic pain.