Sentences with phrase «drug overdose became»

Three years ago, drug overdose became the leading cause of death among the homeless.

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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 %.

The drug overdose epidemic has become one of the most concerning public health issues of recent time, and in an effort to stem the tide, moreg and more patients and doctors are turning to pot over pills.

Many New Yorkers are surprised to learn that unintentional drug overdose deaths have become a major problem on Staten Island — the most suburban of the city's five boroughs.

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.

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.

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.

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

Since the resurgence of opioid - based medications to treat pain in the 1990s, the drugs have become the primary source of fatal overdoses in the United States.

The events become tragic and complex as she later dies of an overdose, it becomes clear that her kids will become attached to the drug game.

After starring, using only her voice, as Joaquin Phoenix's sexy cellphone lover in Her, and as a man - eating alien without a conscience in Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin, she now brings it all together in Luc Besson's ridiculous, incoherent but pretty entertaining Lucy, as a hard - partying young American exchange student in Taiwan who, thanks to a drug overdose, becomes God.

An awesomely prolific filmmaker (he turned out seven features in 1970 alone), Fassbinder became the height of Euro - American fashion during the mid-70s, then went into nearly total eclipse after his death from a drug overdose — reminding us that the fate of a fashionable filmmaker is often to be discarded (as, more recently, have been David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino).

When administered to your pet as prescribed by a veterinarian these medications are relatively safe, however certain circumstances such as overdose, oversensitivity to the drug, or reactions to other drugs, it can become fatal.

On May 4, 2017, the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act («Act») became law as part of the Government of Canada's approach to address the growing number of overdoses and deaths caused by opioids (pain relieving drugs, including fentanyl).