Sentences with phrase «addiction to prescription»

33 year old husband and father of three, successful business executive presented to outpatient detox center to help with recovering from addiction to prescription pain medications.

«Opioid use disorder or addiction to prescription pain relievers or heroin is a disease that touches too many of our communities, big and small, urban and rural, and devastates families all while straining the capacity of law enforcement and the health care system.»

All Fall Down By Jennifer Weiner Washington Square • $ 16 • ISBN 9781451617795 Jennifer Weiner, who is ever - popular with readers (and the target of continuing wrath from literary curmudgeon Jonathan Franzen) delivers a timely and heartbreaking tale about a suburban mom who appears to have it all but is secretly struggling with an addiction to prescription painkillers.

A female character has an addiction to a prescription medicine.

A subsequent addiction to prescription painkillers inevitably leads McDonagh to harder drugs and casual abuses of his newfound power as he attempts to solve the murder of a Senegalese drug dealer and his family.

But his vigilante - style approach to his job leaves him with few friends, while his addiction to prescription drugs is sending him into a downward spiral.

A football hopeful, he's trying to hide the fact that he's picked up an addiction to prescription drugs while nursing an injury.

As the opioid crisis persists across America, it's becoming increasingly important to examine other ways of preventing and managing pain, as well as treating addiction to prescription opioids.

Not exact matches

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.»

Lawmakers in more than a dozen states have proposed taxing prescription painkillers as a way to hold drugmakers accountable for the nation's opioid addiction and overdose crisis.

While South Florida is facing an opioid epidemic, the NBC 6 Investigators spoke to some who have been down the path to heroin addiction, and they recall what led them to that place in their life: abuse of prescription pain... Read More

Nearly one in five pastors report that they have struggled with addiction to alcohol or prescription drugs, according to a 2015 survey by Barna Group and Pepperdine University.

Jesus and Addiction: A Prescription to Transform the Dysfunctional Church and Recover Authentic Christianity by Don Williams.

Not only is prescription drug abuse emotionally dangerous, it is a fast route to addiction and it is illegal.

The Medicaid coverage is expected to impact thousands, and will address issues such as mental health and prescription drug addiction.

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.

«I strongly support Attorney General Schneiderman's I - STOP bill, which would help to rein in doctor shopping, prevent the use of forged prescriptions, and identify patients in need of addiction treatment.

Visit www.combatheroin.ny.gov for more information on addressing heroin and prescription opioid abuse, including a Kitchen Table Tool Kit to help start the conversation about the warning signs of addiction and where to get help.

While working for Schneiderman, Berhaupt, who is also a former Assembly staffer and Senate counsel, was the strategist behind I - STOP — the real - time database of controlled substance prescriptions as a means to reduce addiction and diversion — and the Nonprofit Revitalization Act of 2013, which reformed and modernized the Not - for - Profit Corporation Law for the first time since the 1970's.

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.

De Blasio also announced the launch of the «Mayor's Heroin and Prescription Opioid Public Awareness Task Force,» co-chaired by Staten Island Borough President James Oddo and Bassett, which aims to increase awareness of addiction services in the city.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and first lady Chirlane McCray announced naloxone — which essentially reverses the effect of an overdose — will be sold in about 190 pharmacies in the city as part of an initiative to combat prescription drug and heroin addiction in the five boroughs.

Republicans in that chamber are also fighting against Cuomo's call for $ 1 billion in new fees and taxes, including a tax on opioid prescriptions intended to raise money to combat addiction.

Cuomo also has proposed a tax on opioid prescription pain medicines that could bring in $ 125 million to help offset the cost of treating addiction to the drugs.

The budget included provisions designed to curb drug abuse, including limits to prescription pain killers and efforts to fight overdoses and other symptoms of addiction.

Oxycodone and other opioid prescriptions are the gateway to heroin use and then addiction.

Recovery advocates on Tuesday proposed a tax on prescription painkillers in New York in order to reduce opioid addiction.

By removing these prescriptions from the home, we can stop them from falling into the wrong hands, which can lead to addiction, abuse, accidental poisoning and even death.

The $ 189 million spending package includes measures to increase beds in recovery programs, reduce the time - length for opiate prescriptions, expand insurance coverage for detox facilities and require prescribers to enroll in ongoing addiction training programs.

«The availability of it without a prescription allows families and loved ones of individuals who are struggling with addiction to easily purchase Naloxone and keep it in case of an emergency.»

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

Sheriff Timothy Howard states, «The expansion of this program is indicative of the public's awareness of the growing problem throughout our community with addiction, especially to prescription drugs.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders agreed Wednesday on legislation to support addiction treatment and enact stricter penalties for illegal drug distribution, in response to what they called a growing heroin, opioid and prescription - drug - abuse epidemic.

The tragedies caused by prescription drug abuse, addictions, overdoses and ruined lives are not unique to New York state, but Assemblyman Michael Cusick realized a couple years ago that Staten Island, where his district is located, could be considered the epicenter of the problem.

Schumer called the bill a critical first step in the fight against heroin and opioids, expanding the availability of naloxone — also known as narcan — to law enforcement and first responders, improving prescription drug monitoring programs, shifting resources to identifying and treating incarcerated people suffering from addiction, and prohibiting the Department of Education from questioning students about prior drug convictions on financial aid forms.

«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.

More than 400 Westchester students gathered in October as part of Project WORTHY's Youth Summit at the Westchester County Center where keynote speaker and Olympic coach Tony Hoffman warned students about how prescription drugs found in a medicine cabinet led him down a near deadly path of addiction, crime and prison, before he started his journey to recovery.

Abuse of the prescription painkillers, such as Vicodin or OxyContin, has fueled the need to address an epidemic of addiction and overdose linked to the legal drugs and their illegal cousin, heroin.

A rise in drug - related deaths and increases in prescription abuse leading to heroin addiction are some of the reasons for new and innovative tactics.

Advocates for addiction recovery on Tuesday presented a wish list to state lawmakers, along with a way to pay for some of their proposed remedies: by imposing a tax on prescription opioids.

Cuomo has also proposed a tax on opioid prescription pain medicines that could bring in $ 125 million dollars to help offset the cost of treating addiction to the drugs.

She volunteers for the United Irish American Association and Save the Michaels of the World, a group dedicated to raising awareness of prescription and drug addiction.

JAMESTOWN - Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - NY) was in Jamestown on Monday to share details of the Opioid Addiction Prevention Act, a proposed piece of bipartisan legislation that would limit the amount of prescription opioids a physician can prescribe to... [Read more...]

The polls are part of community effort by Prescription for Progress: United against opioid addiction, a newly formed coalition of of leaders in healthcare, media, law enforcement, education and business in New York's Capital Region aimed at raising awareness and taking steps to mitigate the crisis.

ALBANY — New York officials have reached a deal on legislation to establish tighter online oversight of prescription drugs to help curb the black market fueled by painkiller addictions and doctor shopping.

Cuomo is calling the crisis a health issue and said he agreed with a panel member who called on insurers to cover rehab for prescription pill addiction and said he would also like them to fund education efforts.

Cuomo has also proposed a tax on opioid prescription pain medicines that he says could bring in $ 125 million to help offset the cost of treating addiction to the drugs.

Among the proposals given tentative approval Tuesday is the creation of a $ 100 million surcharge on opioid manufacturers and distributors that would go to a dedicated fund for treatment and prevention efforts to address the prescription drug addiction problem.

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.

While average life expectancy has been rising steadily in most countries over the past century, new research led by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows that life expectancy declined significantly and rapidly in three countries where policy changes increased access to prescription opioids, alcohol or illicit drugs.