Sentences with phrase «opioid addiction does»

«This report reinforces the notion that the scourge of heroin and opioid addiction does not affect one region of the state, or one race, or one ethnic group,» said Sen. John Bonacic, a Republican from Mount Hope, in a statement accompanying the release of the report.

«Opioid addiction does not wait, it does not take days off, and addicted individuals literally could be moments away from the dose that kills them.

Not exact matches

Each time the BCRA has been modified to meet moderates» demands — say, by adding far more money to tackle the opioid addiction crisis, as the latest draft does — some other provision upsets the right - wing (such as the investment income taxes which affect the wealthy that are now being kept in the bill).

Part of the reason is that it can take years to access prison rehabilitation programs if you have a longer sentence because people with shorter sentences get priority; despite recent national efforts to make opioid antidotes and addiction treatments more widely accessible, many prisons still don't have these programs in place, leaving addicts who make it out of prison far more susceptible to relapse.

«There's a big difference between [medical marijuana] and recreational marijuana, and I think when you see something like the opioid addiction crisis blossoming in so many states around this country, the last thing we should be doing is encouraging people,» said Spicer during the briefing.

Other pain points included drug pricing and how approving more generics may affect costs (Gottlieb parried that question by noting the FDA doesn't have the authority to negotiate prices or consider pricing when approving a drug) and his alleged softness on opioid drug makers due the aforementioned financial ties and pro-industry ideology (the nominee noted that he considers opioid addiction and overdoses a public health crisis «on the order of Ebola and Zika»).

Addiction to opioids doesn't start with marijuana.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said, «We must do all we can to end the scourge of heroin and opioid addiction.

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.

Senator Phil Boyle, Chairman of the Senates Joint Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction, said, Todays bill signing demonstrates what government can do when working together to confront a crisis.

But he did join us earlier in the day to talk about his new heroin and opioid addiction task force.

«One of the programs that didn't make it that I've been pushing is for recovery high schools for children that are suffering from an opioid or heroin addiction,» Carlucci says.

«We do not support supervised drug dens,» added Sen. Terrence Murphy (R - Westchester County), co-chairman of the Senate's Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction.

But the final agreement does include a tax on prescription drug manufacturers, with the revenue earmarked to combat opioid and heroin addiction.

«Using prescription opioids to treat acute painful conditions in emergency departments and hospitals might do more harm than good, as they can potentially lead to misuse and addiction.

Looking at previous work on other addictions, such as alcoholism, we anticipated that pathological gamblers would have increased opiate receptors which we did not find, but we did find the expected blunted change in endogenous opioids from an amphetamine challenge.

«We didn't know if zebrafish would be a relevant model for opioid addiction, much less self - administer the drug,» Peterson said.

Opioids can also work by binding to kappa receptors, a route to less pain that doesn't seem to trigger addiction.

A: There are studies that have been done that show that in the usual person — with no history, and no family history of addiction — the typical mood response produced by opioids is dysphoria, not euphoria.

Nor will another trending topic of drug addiction hurt the chances of Heroin (e), which not only deals forcefully with the much talked - about opioid crisis, but also does it by focusing on the heroic efforts of three women leading the charge in West Virginia.