Sentences with phrase «by opioid users»

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled a $ 168 billion budget plan that would close an over $ 4 billion gap by reducing some spending and imposing tax increases on health insurers, big businesses and prescription opioid users, among others.

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.

Governor Andrew Cuomo Tuesday unveiled a $ 168 billion budget plan that would close a more than $ 4 billion gap by reducing some spending, and imposing tax increases on health insurers, big businesses, and prescription opioid users, among others.

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.

It was not long before data showed dramatic increases in the use prescription opioid medicines by teenagers, Volkow said, and set off alarm bells that «we had a problem with prescription medicines,» a 2003 discovery that was later underscored by a steep increase in overdose deaths among all users.

For example, NIDA is funding research to improve access to medication - assisted therapies, develop new medications for opioid addiction, and expand access to naloxone by exploring more user - friendly delivery systems (for example, nasal sprays).

Strang also points out that we also haven't considered how reliably nasal naloxone works in opioid users whose nasal mucosa may be damaged from drug snorting, or obstructed by vomit during overdose.

Within the same hospital, some doctors are three times more likely to prescribe an opioid than other doctors, and patients treated by high - prescribing doctors are more likely to become long - term opioid users, according to a study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Pulling data from more than 5,400 opioid - related Twitter posts made by users in Virginia and Georgia, the Virginia Tech team searched for common factors among the most - highly shared content.