Sentences with phrase «combat opioid drug»

Among their priorities: local funding support to combat opioid drug addiction, state lobbying for tougher laws against drug dealers, greater education and outreach regarding drug addiction and prevention, and better assessment tools for health professionals and first responders to help those at risk of becoming addicts and those in danger of repeat overdoses.

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State and the federal governments are making historic moves to combat the U.S. opioid drug crisis.

WASHINGTON President Donald Trump will unveil a plan on Monday to combat the opioid addiction crisis that includes seeking the death penalty for drug dealers and urging Congress to toughen sentencing laws for drug traffickers, White House officials said on Sunday.

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According to a report from Politico, the White House's soon - to - be-unveiled plan to combat the opioid crisis includes one detail that should terrify and outrage pro-life advocates: The death penalty for even low - level drug dealers.

Now, Republicans in the state Senate are turning to enforcement measures to combat heroin and opioid use, focusing on the major suppliers of the drugs.

The «Too Good for Drugs» expansion is part of a comprehensive city effort unveiled on Staten Island Monday to combat opioid misuse deaths across the five boroughs.

The «Kitchen Table Toolkit» unveiled by the state Combat Heroin and Prescription Opioid Abuse campaign contains two clips — one that focuses on the impact of addiction and another featuring testimonials from young people who have battled drug addiction.

At 11 a.m., Assemblyman Michael Cusick, Sen. Andrew Lanza, Staten Island DA Michael McMahon, and representatives from the NYPD, Delco Drugs, and YMCA Counseling Services announce the donation of 10,000 drug deactivation pouches to combat the ongoing heroin and opioid abuse epidemic, Delco Drugs, 3833 Richmond Ave., Staten Island.

Also at 1 p.m., Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney joins Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler, local police chiefs and community leaders to call for passage of Maloney's legislation to combat the opioid and heroin epidemic and stop mass incarceration of abusers and low - level drug offenders, Orange County District Attorney's office, 40 Matthews St., Goshen.

Walsh also said he would look at what other communities are doing to combat opioid and drug problems in their cities.

In the afternoon, the president will deliver remarks on combatting drug demand and the opioid crisis, and then meet with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.

Republicans in the state Senate huddled for hours in private at the Capitol Thursday afternoon, emerging to say little, other than that a tax on prescription drug manufacturers in order to combat the opioid epidemic remains on the negotiating table.

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

Democratic Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney was in Dutchess County Monday, reintroducing his bill to combat the heroin and opioid epidemic by creating pre-booking drug diversion programs.

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.

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County Executive Mark Poloncarz established a community task force to tackle the issue and earmarked $ 375,000 this year to combat heroin and other opioid - related drug deaths.

The HHS plan includes $ 750 million for NIH from an HHS - wide fund to combat the opioid epidemic that would go in part to a new public - private partnership to find treatments and alternative pain drugs.

And, in fact, there was no reason to believe opioids would create such a problem particularly when Purdue Pharma launched a campaign in 1996 informing patients and doctors that a new, safe drug was available to combat pain.

The Trump administration said it will seek stiffer penalties against drug dealers — including the death penalty where appropriate under current law — and it wants the number of prescriptions for powerful painkillers to be cut by one - third nationwide as part of a broad effort to combat the opioid crisis.