Sentences with phrase «by a drug overdose»

44 more people are killed each day by a drug overdose.

A recent study found that Onondaga County has a higher rate of deaths by drug overdose than New York state and the United States.

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.

Not exact matches

The report noted that this drop is due in large part to the growing opioid epidemic in the U.S. — mortality from drug overdoses rose by 21 percent in 2016.

But further analysis released by the public health agency Friday highlight two alarming trends for U.S. mortality: significant rises in gun and, especially, drug overdose deaths (with the latter driven by the ongoing opioid crisis in America).

An analysis in February by the West Virginia Health Statistics Center found that at least 818 people had died of drug overdoses in 2016 in the state.

Drug overdoses and other poisonings are the leading cause of death by injury in 30 states.

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»).

Drugs like buprenorphine treat addiction, and naloxone reverses overdoses, but these treatments are often not covered by insurance providers.

Amphastar became yet another drug price - hiking villain facing intense public scrutiny when it raised the price of naloxone, an opioid overdose antidote, by more than 100 %.

Throughout his extraordinary life, Sassoon has overcome many tragedies and he talks openly about being rocked by the early death of his brother and then his daughter who died of a drug overdose, aged 33.

In Ohio, figures from 88 county coroners show that more than 4,100 people died from drug overdoses last year, according to figures compiled recently by the Columbus Dispatch.

Forrest cited the harm caused by drugs, and the testimony of two parents who gave victim impact statements in court about how they had lost their children to Silk Road - related overdoses.

«If they could figure out a way to streamline, it would be a lot better,» said Kim Janda, a professor of chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, who leads a team of researchers developing a vaccine that would prevent fentanyl overdoses by keeping the drug from reaching the brain.

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.

Perhaps most strikingly, the rate of overdoses in West Virginia caused by prescription drugs was about 8.6 times higher in 2014 than in 1999, and annually rose an average of 26.6 % between those years, which was well above the national year - on - year change of 7.8 %.

The medical practice by which he carried out this business was a filthy fraud in which he overdosed his patients with dangerous drugs, spread venereal disease among them with infected instruments, perforated their wombs and bowels - and, on at least two occasions, caused their deaths... Bureaucratic inertia is not exactly news.

A report by drug policy think tank Volteface stated that 3,700 people died from things like infected syringes and accidental overdoses and recommended a trial of drug consumption rooms to provide a safe, clean and legal space for users.

You'll probably get struck by lightening or die of a drug overdose.

To establish a link between capsaicin and endorphins, Etscorn used a drug called naxalone, which can reverse the effects of a heroin overdose by blocking brain receptors that respond to the heroin.

Few communities have escaped the damage wrought by the skyrocketing number of overdoses, robberies and murders connected to prescription drugs in recent years.

The already short - staffed Onondaga County Medical Examiner's Office is losing another forensic pathologist at a time when its caseload of autopsies fueled by the opioid drug overdose epidemic is soaring, and plans to use more contract pathologists from New York City.

According to documents regarding the introduction of the program, in 2015, 107 Westchester County residents died of fatal drug overdoses, and 83 percent of those deaths were caused by heroin — many of such users started with using prescription opioids.

BY NATHAN RILEY A multi-year push in New York City to offer drug users a safe place for consuming their drugs seems destined for success after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced his support for «overdose prevention centers.»

The plan is to make the drug — commonly known by the brand name Vivitrol — available to inmates, people enrolled in drug court programs and others, like those who might have been saved from an overdose.

A bill that would allow for the over-the-counter sale of naloxone — a drug used to counter the effects of an opioid overdose — was signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Sen. David Carlucci announced on Friday.

The inquest which was constituted by Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State to probe the cause of death of Senator Isiaka Adeleke has said that drug overdose was responsible for the death of the senator.

A 21 percent rise in drug overdose deaths last year made unintentional injuries the third - leading cause of death in the country, according to data set for release by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

At least 21 people died of suspected opioid overdoses in the past 10 days, perhaps caused by a powerful drug similar to fentanyl, County Executive Mark Poloncarz said.

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.

BY NATHAN RILEY Outraged that Mayor Bill de Blasio continues to sit on a city health department study into the efficacy of establishing safe places for drug users to pursue their high — facilities that are in place all over Europe with proven track records of reducing fatal overdoses — protestors sat down in the middle of Broadway across from City Hall bringing downtown traffic to a halt.

BY NATHAN RILEY Advocates are demanding that Mayor Bill de Blasio release a city health department feasibility study on safer consumption spaces where users take their drugs in the presence of an overdose prevention worker.

It won't be a cure - all to the alarming increase in drug overdose deaths, but a suggestion by U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to create guidelines...

Since 2013 local police and other first responders have been equipped with the anti-overdose drug Narcan in an effort to combat spiraling rates of death by overdose.

Lawmakers also questioned Marks over two - plus hours on a range of judicial issues, including plans to expand Buffalo's successful drug intervention court to other areas of the state hit hard by the opioid overdose crisis.

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 says in Westchester County, drug overdose - related deaths increased by 115 percent between 2010 and 2013.

The surge in drug overdoses is driven mostly by the improper use of opioids — prescription painkillers, heroin, and increasingly, synthetic drugs like fentanyl.

JAMESTOWN - Chautauqua County District Attorney David Foley says the death of a Jamestown man who died after being arrested by Police on February 16 was the result of a drug overdose.

During a recent meeting in Amherst, many in attendance seemed startled by the death toll in their town from overdoses of heroin and prescription drugs.

Drug policy activists rally outside New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's office to demand urgency in overdose prevention by supporting Safer Consumpt...

Sen. Charles Schumer says Westchester County's drug overdose deaths increased by 115 percent in 3 years

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.

A public health warning has been issued by the law enforcement and medical community regarding a dramatic increase in fatal drug overdoses in the Buffalo area.

Officers in all but five police departments in Erie County carry naloxone, known by the brand name Narcan, a rescue nasal spray designed to revive users who overdose on opioid drugs.

Senator Charles Schumer says Congress can reverse the skyrocketing rate of fatal drug overdoses by providing an infusion of funding.

The Opioid Epidemic [May 10, 2017] Opioid addiction has reached epidemic proportions in the United States, with overdoses and deaths caused by prescribed and «street» drugs on the rise.

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.

Deaths caused by accidental drug overdoses in the US now exceed those from motor vehicle incidents and guns.

Drug overdose, driven primarily by opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury deaths in the United States, and trends indicate that premature deaths associated with the use of opioids are likely to climb.