Sentences with phrase «as drug overdoses»

Heart disease was the leading cause of death for 2016, followed by cancer, unintentional injuries such as drug overdoses and car crashes, chronic lower respiratory diseases including asthma, and stroke.

Case of death is being reported as a drug overdose.

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The New York Post is also reporting that Hoffman has died, describing it as «an apparent drug overdose.»

As Fortune reported in an in - depth report on the crisis in September, an American is now far likelier to die of a drug overdose than in a car crash.

Caminiti died at the age of 41 of a drug overdose, and Bet - David attributes his struggle with pressure — the same sort of pressure you might experience as an entrepreneur.

Worryingly, people who overdose on such designer drugs, known collectively as China White, have been said to be less responsive to antidotes now widely carried by first responders.

Drug overdose deaths — originally from prescription opioids but increasingly now from heroin and fentanyl — have emerged as an increasingly grave social issue, steadily worsening over the past few years even as the economy improves.

Almost as many Americans died because of a drug overdose in 2016 alone as the number of Americans killed in the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan Wars combined.

If I told you that «I believe Elvis is the second coming of the messiah and he had to die of a drug overdose to show us the error of our ways in order to be reborn as the King».

Police hope the decline in deaths continues but McCarthy said naloxone — the overdose antidote, also known as Narcan — is «a logical extension» of the department's drug prevention and enforcement programs.

Orland Park is the latest in a string of suburbs pushing to equip police officers with the drug, as they are often first on the scene and first to recognize a potential overdose, McCarthy said.

As U.S. Rep. John Katko testified before a House subcommittee Wednesday, he shared the stories of young central New Yorkers whose lives were cut short due to opioid or synthetic drug overdoses.

It was a day of drug policy discussion in Albany, as lawmakers held a forum on legalizing marijuana, proposed bills to combat heroin addiction and overdoses, and made progress towards a medical marijuana program.

Staten Island has been referred to as the epicenter of the drug crisis; drug overdose deaths outnumber murders and motor vehicle deaths on Staten Island, according to 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.

Police all across New York state will be supplied with the drug widely seen as an antidote to heroin and painkiller overdoses.

The coroner inquest has finally ruled that the death of senator Isiaka Adeleke was as a result of drug overdose and not poison.

Borough President James Oddo, Assemblyman Michael Cusick and District Attorney Michael McMahon wrote to the state's Department of Health asking it to create a system that alerts doctors of past overdoses as a way to ensure the patient isn't prescribed the drugs.

ERIE COUNTY, NY — The Erie County Medical Examiner's office reports a recent increase over the past month in the number of suspected drug overdose deaths involving the drug fentanyl, either alone or in combination with other drugs such as heroin and cocaine.

According to emergency responders, as a result of the local ban on synthetic drugs and bath salts, (voted into law by the Saugerties Town Board on March 29, 2012), hospitalizations resulting from overdoses caused by the use of these substances have been significantly reduced.

Community members were given free Naloxone kits, as well as instructions on how to properly administer the life - saving drug that reverses the effects of opioid overdose.

As Rep. John Katko testified before a House subcommittee today, he shared the stories of young central New Yorkers whose lives were cut short due to opioid or synthetic drug overdoses.

Following a police raid Wednesday on five Brooklyn bodegas after a wave of suspected overdoses of synthetic marijuana, Cuomo today announced stepped - up enforcement efforts to crack down on the illegal sale of the drug known as K2.

The Family of Chime Amaechi, who died in the same car alongside Davido's friend DJ Olu, has denied reports that their son died as a result of drug overdose.

Speaking to The net, the bereaved family said, reports that Chime died of drug overdose was false as he was not a drug user.

Drug overdose deaths rose at a rate nearly twice as fast in states that embraced Medicaid expansion, like New York, versus non-expansion states, according to the report.

As local leaders and surviving family members marked International Overdose Awareness Day with a candlelight vigil Thursday evening at the LaSalle Park bandshell, Erie County leaders discussed how efforts to fight the drug epidemic have progressed and what yet has to be done.

New York City could become the first city in the United States to adopt supervised injection facilities — also known as safe injection sites — in an effort to combat drug overdose deaths and the opioid epidemic.

The study comes as the city is grappling with a record 937 fatal drug overdoses in 2015, a 66 percent increase since 2010.

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.

Deaths from drug overdose have outpaced automobile accidents as the leading cause of injury in 35 states, including New York.

Naloxone (brand name: Narcan ®) is a lifesaving medication that can save lives by reversing the effect of overdoses caused by heroin or other opioids, such as hydrocodone and oxycodone prescription drugs.

As the death toll from opioid overdoses continues to rise, Erie County is hitting back with a lawsuit against pharmaceutical makers and doctors who prescribe the drugs.

Every year, nearly 180,000 people in the USA die from preventable causes such as automobile crashes, drowning, firearm - related injuries, falls, assault, and drug overdoses; equivalent to one injury death every 3 minutes.

Mr L, as he became known, was found by his landlord and taken to a hospital, where the staff got busy with the tools of overdose: a funnel, a length of tubing, and lukewarm water to flush out and dilute the drug.

Emergency physicians should expect «an upswing in what on the surface appear to be heroin overdoses,» but are actually overdoses tied to acetyl fentanyl, an opiate that is mixed into street drugs marketed as heroin.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, opioid abuse is a serious public health issue, with drug overdoses identified as the leading cause of injury death in the United States.

Although historically groundbreaking, the experiment was a near disaster, as all subjects almost died from drug overdoses.

It went down for young people late in the 1990s and then went back up a little bit as a general population figure; so that you have a tremendously important contrast between steady rates of illegal drug use as measured by drug overdose death rates, as measured by urines of arrested people, emergency room mentions, all kinds of things.

«If we did an autopsy on every suicide, it would be all consuming, as with drug overdoses,» said Cherokee Ballard, the office's chief administrator.

Naloxegol is based on the same active molecule as naloxone, a drug developed in the 1960s to counter the effects of opioid overdose.

As a result, they don't have a good way of knowing how potent the drugs they are taking, which leads to accidental overdoses.

Patient records of veterans who died from drug overdoses while receiving medical services as an outpatient at the VHA between October 2004 and September 2009 were examined for the relationship between the opioids and benzodiazepines when prescribed concurrently.

Opioids, often prescribed as pain medications, have now become the country's leading cause of drug overdose.

Stamp bag testing and monitoring should not replace other drug surveillance systems, such as overdose mortality data and toxicology reports, said Creppage, also an intern at the Allegheny County Office of the Medical Examiner.

First responders also could benefit from knowing what drugs are in circulation so they can take proper precautions to protect themselves and be prepared with overdose reversal medications, such as naloxone.»

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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.

Prescription opioid overdoses killed more than 165,000 Americans between 1999 and 2014, and the health and social costs of abusing such drugs are estimated to be as much as $ 55 billion a year.

Unlikely overdose Unlike drugs such as painkillers, which come with a risk of death if people take too much, patients who «overdose» on the marijuana spray would be at little risk for acute health problems, Haney said.