Sentences with phrase «addiction epidemic»

If you live in the lower mainland, you are well aware of the addiction epidemic that is plaguing our communities.

You've got a fascinating focus for your story — the addiction epidemic and life behind bars, so there's certainly a market for your story.

Called the «overdose drug» because it counteracts the potentially lethal effects of heroin, oxycodone, and other abused narcotics, this lifesaving medicine is making headlines thanks to the opioid addiction epidemic.

Even as current research demonstrates that hospitalized patients» exposure to opioids has contributed to the nationwide addiction epidemic, there is little guidance on the safe prescribing of these pain killers in the inpatient, non-operative setting.

But an opioid addiction epidemic spreading across the United States has soured some doctors on the drugs.

But the drug has been linked to an opioid addiction epidemic that has swept Canada and the US.

These findings, which appear in Substance Abuse, come amid an opioid addiction epidemic and could offer a roadmap for how best to equip communities to prevent deaths from drug overdoses.

On the same day the Congressional Budget Office issued its assessment of the Senate's proposed health bill, the Cuomo Administration offered its own sharp criticism of a bill they say will prove devastating to everyday New Yorkers while seriously harming efforts to battle an ongoing opioid addiction epidemic.

As the country grapples with the addiction epidemic, one Capital Region hospital is offering opioid - free surgery for a select number of operations.

-- Opioid epidemic surcharge ($ 127 million): With New York among the states hit hardest by the heroin and painkiller addiction epidemic, Cuomo is looking to place a 2 - cents - per - milligram tax on opioids sold in the state, to be paid by drug manufacturers.

Another way in which Erie County is protecting the public's health is in addressing the terrible opioid addiction epidemic facing our community.

A new 24 - hour, 365 - day - a year hotline aimed at addressing Erie County's opioid addiction epidemic went live Monday morning.

The Task Force was charged with identifying ways to address the growing opioid addiction epidemic.

Those include a tax on vapor products, a 2 - cent per milligram tax on opioid prescriptions framed as a way to combat the heroine addiction epidemic, and a «windfall profit fee» on health insurance companies.

The budget resolution backed by Republicans in the state Senate on Thursday rejects $ 1 billion in tax increases while also seeking to spend $ 265 million on fighting the opioid addiction epidemic and bolster school security in the wake of a high school shooting in Florida.

«It wasn't until last year that his administration sought any increase in funding to address the opioid addiction epidemic,» Kolodny said.

(Other naloxone sellers like Kaleo, Mylan, and Adapt Pharma have pursued similar strategies, inspiring the wrath of U.S. Senators who say the firms were taking advantage of America's widespread opioid addiction epidemic and putting profits over patients.)

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions» wide - ranging new crackdown on drug offenders could exacerbate one of America's most persistent public health tragedies: the heroin and opioid addiction epidemic that's been ravaging the country and killed nearly 35,000 Americans in 2015 alone.

Our children's shelter is open 24/7/365 to serve kids who've been displaced and traumatized by Indiana's addictions epidemic.

Not exact matches

President Donald Trump made combating America's opioid addiction and prescription painkiller epidemic a major plank of his 2016 campaign.

U.S. life expectancy has actually fallen for two years in a row — and while the opioid addiction and overdose epidemic has a part to play in that, overall, the diseases that kill Americans have been killing a larger share of them.

Cardinal Health agreed to pay $ 20 million to the state and issued this statement: «While the company denies the state's allegations, Cardinal Health recognizes that the epidemic of prescription drug abuse is a multifaceted problem driven by addiction and demand.»

A crisis of tech addiction, in other words, looks more like the ongoing obesity epidemic.

«The premier said the right things when she promised 500 new addiction treatment spaces in the 2013 election campaign, but now we know that not only has she missed her own deadline, but she has actually reduced addiction treatment spaces for youth over the past three years while the overdose epidemic was growing,» said Horgan.

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We can also show you research that says in states where medical cannabis is legal, opioid overdose deaths and addiction treatment admissions have fallen, providing a glimmer of hope to perhaps solving an American epidemic.

Bullying has reached epidemic proportions and, according to at least forty years of psychological, psychiatric, sport, and neuroscientific research, is directly correlated with addiction, low self - esteem, depression, failure to reach potential, self - harm, athletes quitting sports, eating disorders, chronic illness and suicide.

Opioid addictions are on the rise, as is the number of families impacted by the hardship the epidemic inflicts.

Opioid addiction has been an issue seized on by Senate Republicans, who have emphasized efforts to help and find treatment for those addicted — a stance that some have felt stands in stark contrast to the rhetoric surrounding drug epidemics in the 1980s.

The move would come as New York and most of the nation continues to battle what public health officials say is an epidemic of heroin and opioid addiction, an issue that has especially ravaged parts of upstate New York.

At 5:30 p.m., the state Senate Joint Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction holds a community forum to explore real solutions to address the state's heroin and opioid epidemic, Columbia - Greene Community College, Arts Center Theater, 4400 NY - 23, Hudson.

This epidemic is the scourge of our time and demands that we come together as a community to address the issue, provide treatment and services for the addicted and those impacted by addiction, and begin to heal as a community,» said Poloncarz in a released statement.

ALBANY — State lawmakers are looking to medical marijuana to help combat the epidemic of opioid addiction.

Since the launch of Operation S.A.F.E. or «Saving Addicts from Epidemic,» the Broome County DA's office says it has enrolled 148 people who are getting treatment for addiction all around the country.

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand brought her campaign to fight the scourge of opioid addiction and death to the City of Newburgh on Friday where she announced new legislation that will target the epidemic at one of its key sources: opioid pain medication prescriptions.

ERIE COUNTY, N.Y. — Preventing one of the most common paths to addiction is one of the ways Erie County will use a $ 64,000 grant from the Tower Foundation to address the deadly opioid epidemic.

At 10:30 a.m., Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Senate Joint Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction co-chairs Sens. George Amedore, Fred Akshar, and Chris Jacobs will announce the Senate's next steps in the fight against the state's heroin and opioid epidemic, Room 124, state Capitol, Albany.

The Assembly Minority Task Force on Heroin Addiction and Community Response held a regional forum aimed at identifying problems and weaknesses in current efforts to combat the rampant heroin epidemic.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo told residents of opioid addiction - ravaged Staten Island that he considered the present - day heroin epidemic worse than the crack epidemic that tore through predominantly nonwhite New York neighborhoods during the 1980s.

«Providing addicts with a place to inject and feed their drug dependency instead of a place to recover and overcome their addiction is patently irresponsible and completely misses the mark in solving the opioid epidemic,» Malliotakis said.

DA Flynn speaks at Black Balloon Day event hosted by the Erie County Department of Health Opiate Epidemic Task Force to remember those who lost their lives to opioid addiction.

State Senator James Seward brought the Joint Senate Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction to the Cortland County Office Building Auditorium Wednesday afternoon for a public hearing on the opioid and heroin epidemic.

In this county and state, we have reached epidemic status as too many are falling prey to the demons of addiction and losing their lives to overdose.

Cuomo told residents of opioid addiction - ravaged Staten Island that he considered the present - day heroin epidemic worse than the crack epidemic that tore through predominantly nonwhite New York neighborhoods during the 1980s.

In what will perhaps be the biggest end - of - session deal, Cuomo and legislative leaders agreed on bills to support addiction treatment and enact stricter penalties for illegal drug distribution, in response to what they deemed a heroin «epidemic.»

Convening his task force on the heroin epidemic, Cuomo told Staten Islanders that he expects to get laws passed this session to address the deadly addiction that many New Yorkers have become all too familiar with.

«New York and the nation as a whole is grappling with how to combat heroin and opioid addiction and, with this comprehensive plan, we are continuing to take decisive action to end this epidemic and protect our families and communities,» Cuomo said in a statement.

Republican AG candidate John Cahill said, if elected, he would work with law enforcement agencies to develop a comprehensive plan to address an «epidemic» of heroin addiction.

GLENS FALLS — Republican state attorney general candidate John Cahill said, if elected, he would work with law enforcement agencies to develop a comprehensive plan to address an «epidemic» of heroin addiction.