Sentences with phrase «drug overdoses in»

Prescription drug overdoses in the US place a substantial burden on hospitals and the economy, according to a new study of emergency room visits reported on by the LA Times.

Sadly, opioid drugs are typically prescribed as a first line of treatment for back pain, 1 not exercise, and these drugs have now surpassed both heroin and cocaine as the leading cause of fatal drug overdoses in the US.

«Prescription drug overdoses in the United States are skyrocketing.

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

The number of deaths from these painkillers has nearly quadrupled since 1990, with 38,329 people dying from drug overdoses in 2010 alone.

He said that the enthusiasm among some lawmakers and advocacy groups for Mr. Cuomo's proposal was «all about stop - and - frisk,» and, citing several young people in his district who had died of prescription drug overdoses in recent months, questioned the message it would send to young people about drug use.

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.

ERIE COUNTY, NY — Erie County continues to take a proactive stance to address the serious public health crisis of fatal opioid drug overdoses in our community.

The study comes as the city is grappling with a record 937 fatal drug overdoses in 2015, a 66 percent increase since 2010.

Town Police Chief Sinagra reports there have been no cases of synthetic drug overdoses in the past year.

There has been another sudden surge in apparent drug overdoses in Erie County and in the surrounding counties: eleven cases between Saturday afternoon and Monday afternoon.

Fentanyl, an opioid typically is used to alleviate pain, has driven record fatal drug overdoses in New York City.

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.

Last year, there were 13 drug overdoses in Orland Park and six deaths, five of which involved heroin, McCarthy said.

The state saw a total of 439 drug overdoses in 2015; most were related to opioids, and about 70 percent of these opioid - related deaths involved fentanyl.

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.

Almost as many Americans died because of a drug overdose in 2016 alone as the number of Americans killed in the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan Wars combined.

Julie Welsted described how she lost one son to a drug overdose in December 2015 and her second son less than a year later — three days after Thanksgiving.

Roughly 64,000 U.S. residents died from a drug overdose in 2016, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

He had been admitted with a drug overdose in 2015, and his drug problems had not ceased up till the divorce of the couple in October 2016.

The legendary star died of a drug overdose in 1997 at the age of just 33.

Debbie was the child with whom Raymond had the deepest bond (his son left for America with his wife after the breakup of their marriage) and he had planned to hand the running of his various businesses on to her before she died from a drug overdose in 1992.

That's a very strong $ 7,527 per - screen average for «Wanted Man,» which has drawn terrific reviews, particularly for its star Hoffman, who died of a drug overdose in February.

Sadly, he died of a drug overdose in 1993 at the age of 23.

I Only Want You to Love Me (1975) could serve as the working title for most of the films in the career of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the prolific German director who made 43 features between 1969 and his death of a drug overdose in 1982.

The late Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died of a drug overdose in February, plays a major role in the third (and next year's fourth and final) franchise installment.

A career that was then cut cruelly short by Jones fatal drug overdose in 2004 at the age of 35.

However, one particular famed comedian — John Belushi — died of a drug overdose in 1982 and is said to have never left.

Japanese collector and online fashion mogul Yusaku Maezawa, who bought the painting on Thursday night, is a big fan of the New York artist who died of a drug overdose in 1988 aged 27.

This portrait was first shown at the Grand Palais in Paris in 1971, two days after Dyer was found dead from a drink and drugs overdose in his room at the Hotel des Saint - Peres, Paris.

Characteristics of hospital - treated intentional drug overdose in Ireland and Northern Ireland

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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.

«This surge is very troubling and likely foreshadows an increase of importation, abuse, and overdose deaths in the United States,» Anthony Williams, assistant administrator and chief of operations for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, told the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control on Tuesday.

The members of the Pacific Coast Collaborative met in Vancouver on Friday to mark its 10th anniversary and agreed to add drug overdoses and trade to the list of issues considered vital to the four jurisdictions.

The decision comes on the heels of a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics, an agency of the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, that shows the rate of estimated drug overdose deaths increased in the third quarter of 2016 and outpaced the rate of drug - related deaths over the same period in 2015.

It is now significantly more likely that an American will die of a drug overdose than in a car crash.

And yet, despite acknowledging the severity of the crisis, Trump proposed no new policies to combat rising rates of drug overdose deaths in the United States.

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).

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

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

The synthetic opioid fentanyl is so powerful that it could cause accidental overdoses in the very first responders who trying to save its victims, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) warned in new guidelines released Tuesday.

In 2011, 31 % of prescription - opioid - related overdose deaths involved these two kinds of drugs used together, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

For decades, naloxone, a drug approved in 1971 that instantly reverses the effect of opioid overdose, languished in relative obscurity.

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

On the second page, Oppenheimer catalogues the family's many misfortunes and humiliations: «Drug addictions, alcoholism, overdoses, adultery, homosexuality, child abuse in the form of molestation, suspected kidnapping, a murder plot, a shooting, tragic accidents, suicide, attempted suicides, and other mayhem.»

However, Spicer then signaled that the White House sees recreational pot very differently, with the press secretary even attempting to link recreational use of the drug to the abuse of opioid drugs across the U.S. (In fact, there has been little scientific evidence linking marijuana legalization to opioid use, with some studies actually showing a decrease in opioid overdoses in states where legal marijuana is availableIn fact, there has been little scientific evidence linking marijuana legalization to opioid use, with some studies actually showing a decrease in opioid overdoses in states where legal marijuana is availablein opioid overdoses in states where legal marijuana is availablein states where legal marijuana is available.)

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.

In this era of marijuana legalization and opioid overdoses, it was encouraging to see the attorney general call attention to drug education for the young.

As Fortune reported in an in - depth report on the crisis in September, an American is now far likelier to die of a drug overdose than in a car crash.

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.