Sentences with phrase «die from overdose»

Every year 43,982 people die from an overdose nationwide.

If you're going to get too much of a good thing, follow the lead of Salvador Dali who said, «Some days I think I am going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.»

For the record, her drug - addicted son didn't die from an overdose, but was attacked during a drug deal.

In 2014 alone, more than 14,000 people died from overdoses involving the drugs.

I recently made a documentary about pornography, and something a porn director said in his interview caught my attention: «No one has ever died from an overdose of pornography.»

Is someone in your family, is someone you are friendly with, someone you know from work, do you know someone who has died from an overdose... when you look and say how many people meet at least one of those conditions, its nearly six out of 10 New Yorkers, it's an astronomical figure.»

New York has been in the grips of an opioid epidemic for more than a decade with more than 2,900 people dying from overdoses statewide last year.

Last year, 1,374 died from overdoses in the city alone, a 46 percent increase from 2015, with Staten Island and The Bronx hit the hardest.

«Of those that have been touched by opioid abuse, that is, they or someone they are close with have abused opioids or died from an overdose, one third say they or someone they know have tried to get treatment,» said Siena College Research Institute Director, Don Levy.

Last year, 1,441 people died from overdoses in the city and there are already plenty of «unsafe injection sites» across the five boroughs that are problem spots for neighborhoods and the NYPD.

Since the beginning of the year, city detectives have determined at least 25 individuals died from overdoses.

Nobody — as in zero — has ever died from an overdose in such a facility, a fact made even more profound when consideration is given to the millions of injections that have taken place in them all over the world.

Since the beginning of the year, nearly 150 local residents have reportedly died from overdoses, while numerous more lives were saved by Narcan.

In that year alone, 107 Westchester residents died from overdoses.

National figures show that far more people are dying of synthetic opiate overdoses than are dying from overdoses related to heroin, cocaine or meth.

When people die from overdoses of opioids, whether prescription pain medications or street drugs, it is the suppression of breathing that almost always kills them.

The research showed that the number of recently incarcerated people who died from overdose dropped from 26 in the first half of 2016 — before the program started — to just nine in the first half of 2017, after the program's implementation.

Opioid prescribing in the U.S. quadrupled between 1999 and 2015, and during that time over 183,000 people died from overdoses related to prescription opioids, according to the CDC.

When it comes to prescription painkillers, the difference between controlling pain and dying from an overdose may come down to how strong a prescription the doctor wrote, according to a new study in veterans.

The study calculated that not eating enough nuts and seeds was the third - leading dietary risk factor for death and disability in the world, killing more people than processed meat consumption, and potentially leading to the deaths of 15 times more people than all those who die from overdoses of heroin, crack cocaine, and all other illicit drugs combined.

Impulsive, insecure, with self - destructive tendencies, she died from an overdose of barbiturates.

It's around afternoon, and her son is watching some TV show, and she seems to be asleep next to him on couch - but we soon learn she died from an overdose.

Meaning an average of 120 people in the United States die from overdosing every single day.

The commentator in that video claims he knows many people who died from overdoses.

The pharmacist in charge missed the mistake and little Emily, while receiving her last dose of chemotherapy, died from an overdose of sodium chloride that resulted in brain damage.

Not exact matches

More than 64,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, mainly from prescription painkillers and heroin, in 2016.

«We have a 9 / 11 - scale loss every three weeks,» Christie said, pointing to the fact that 142 Americans die each day from drug overdoses.

More than 42,000 people died in 2016 from an opioid overdose.

Half a million Americans have died from opioid overdoses from 2000 to 2014.

Music legend Prince, who died last year from a fentanyl overdose, may have unwittingly taken the drug.

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.

Fifty - two thousand Americans died of overdoses in 2015 — about four times as many as died from gun homicides and half again as many as died in car accidents.

In 1999, fewer than 17,000 Americans died from a drug overdose.

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.

Suicide, overdosing, disease, getting stabbed, shot or beaten to death, or dying from exposure on cold nights is our lifestyle.

Mina Brees died in Granby, Colo., on Aug. 7, 2009, from a prescription drug overdose; her death was ruled a suicide.

I also regained contact with people from elementary school (K - 8 where I'm from), and for a lot of them, that happened a few years ago when a boy I went to school with died of a drug overdose.

My son Cole died 6 days ago from an apparent accidental overdose.

Eight people have died from suspected drug overdoses in Erie County since Saturday, and another three suspected fatal overdoses occurred in surrounding counties, the Erie County Health Department said.

With no end in sight to the number of people dying from a fatal drug overdose, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is pushing a bill that she says could help.

A heroin crisis gripping communities across the country deepened in New York last year, with more people in the city dying in overdoses from the drug than in any year since 2003.

Burstein this week said 224 people have died this year, through last Thursday, from confirmed or suspected opioid and heroin overdoses.

She says with 51 Americans dying from a fatal drug overdose everyday, the stakes are far too high to ignore.

The 30 - second commercial features a testimonial from Patty Farrell, whose daughter died of a heroin drug overdose.

In the 13 states that passed laws allowing for the use of medical marijuana between 1999 and 2010, 25 percent fewer people die from opioid overdoses annually.

The number of Erie County residents dying from opioid drug overdoses fell last year, reversing a lethal body count trend for the first time since 2013.

Her son, Benjamin, died at age 28 in July from a drug overdose.

In 2014, 73 people died from prescription drug overdoses — up from 63 in 2013 — and 43 from heroin, up from 32 in 2013, according to the DOH.

Nearly 500 people died from opioid overdoses in Nassau and Suffolk counties last year — the highest number of fatalities ever recorded.

There are more people dying from drug overdoses overall than the number who died from AIDS at the peak of the AIDS crisis.