Sentences with phrase «fatal overdose»

The majority of fatal overdose cases started via prescribed pills from doctors, prosecutors said.

Cases include the 1970 murder of a jazz musician leading a double life, a graffiti artist's fatal overdose in 1982 and the 1971 death of a young circus performer.

Sometimes, even the victims can rescue themselves from a potentially fatal overdose.

His arrest stems from a probe into two fatal overdoses on Hartford's Zion Street on Dec. 24, 2016, officials said.

The statistics, from the county medical examiner's office, also showed a drop in the number of heroin - related deaths while fatal overdoses caused by fentanyl and other fentanyl analogues have risen.

In the past three to four years, more than a dozen young people from the suburban Rensselaer County community have died from fatal overdoses.

BY NATHAN RILEY Outraged that Mayor Bill de Blasio continues to sit on a city health department study into the efficacy of establishing safe places for drug users to pursue their high — facilities that are in place all over Europe with proven track records of reducing fatal overdoses — protestors sat down in -LSB-...]

The toolkit includes easy - to - understand information about recognizing and responding appropriately to overdose, specific drug - use behaviors to avoid, and the role of naloxone in preventing fatal overdose.

«We've been watching this deadly spike in fentanyl use and fatal overdoses since 2013, yet addiction services and access to treatment beds have not kept pace with the crisis,» Horgan said.

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.

Responding to a Sunday Newsday story about Suffolk's 337 fatal overdoses related to heroin in a five - year period — more than any other county in the state — officials said Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo should make beds available for inpatient heroin addiction treatment at Pilgrim Psychiatric Center in Brentwood and Sagamore Children's Psychiatric Center in Melville.

Erie County, NY Department of Health» Increase in Fatal Overdoses Involving Fentanyl; Recent Surge in Deaths Prompts Warning

Ten years: That's how long Poloncarz expects it will take before the county's overdose death toll stops being considered a public health crisis, before the number of people dying of fatal overdoses falls and no longer grips the public consciousness.

«The rate of fatal overdoses due to heroin abuse continues to rise at an alarming rate» said Erie County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein.

Rates of opioid use, including fatal overdoses, have increased sharply over the past decade.

Opioid dependence is a growing public health problem in the United States and globally, associated with the spread of viruses such as HIV and hepatitis C, as well as fatal overdose when left untreated.

The dark side of painkillers — their dramatic increase in use and ability to trigger abuse, addiction and thousands of fatal overdoses annually in the United States is in the news virtually every day.

With Canada's fatal overdose crisis still surging, the Canadian HIV / AIDS Legal Network, in collaboration with the Waterloo Region Crime Prevention Council, issued 50,000 wallet - size cards with vital information about the 2017 Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act.

One danger is derived from the mutually reinforcing effects of alcohol and these drugs, resulting in accidental and potentially fatal overdoses.]

Newly released statistics on Nassau County's opioid crisis show an uptick in deaths from the use of cocaine mixed with heroin or fentanyl, and despite a drop in the number of heroin - related deaths, fatal overdoses caused by fentanyl have risen.

Advocates at the speakout said that since the Council first authorized the study, 1,500 people have died in New York City from fatal overdoses.

BY NATHAN RILEY Outraged that Mayor Bill de Blasio continues to sit on a city health department study into the efficacy of establishing safe places for drug users to pursue their high — facilities that are in place all over Europe with proven track records of reducing fatal overdoses — protestors sat down in the middle of Broadway across from City Hall bringing downtown traffic to a halt.

BY NATHAN RILEY A measure approved by the City Council on October 31 guarantees that homeless shelters across New York will be staffed by people trained to prevent fatal overdoses.

There are even listings for fentanyl, a potent opiate responsible for thousands of fatal overdoses in recent years.

VANCOUVER Researchers say opioid users in Vancouvers Downtown Eastside are increasingly testing positive for the potent painkiller fentanyl, which was linked to the majority of fatal overdoses in British Columbia last year.

Gosnell is charged with killing seven late - term infants by «snipping» their spinal cords and giving a 41 - year - old immigrant patient a fatal overdose of the painkiller Demerol.

Theroux travels to Huntington, West Virginia, where one in 10 babies are reportedly born addicted to opiates and the fatal overdose rate is 13 times the national average.

A Hartford man, who authorities believe sold the drugs that led to two fatal overdoses in 2016, was sentenced Wednesday to 46 months in federal prison.

(The police investigation was unable to determine whether there was wrongdoing involved in Gerald's near - fatal overdose.)

It is taking longer for Erie County's toxicology lab to provide test results because of a surge in drug cases and fatal overdoses, as well as newer designer drugs with hard - to - detect formulations.

Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota says the charges stem from an investigation into 10 fatal overdoses in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, and nine overdoses in which the drug users were revived with Narcan.

«Family and friends of those struggling with addiction often feel helpless and the worst case scenario of a fatal overdose is always looming,» said Sherlita Amler, MD, Commissioner of Health, who writes the standing orders that cover the prescriptions needed for the county to participate in the New York State Opioid Overdose Prevention Program.

She also proposed state legislation to prosecute heroin dealers with homicide in fatal overdoses.

They include ways to make it easier for first responders and family members of addicts to get access to the antidote drug naloxone, that can counteract a potentially fatal overdose.

Officials anticipate the number of fatal overdoses in 2016 could reach 570.

«Fatal overdoses have occurred this year in urban, suburban, and rural Erie County communities, both in high - income and in lower - income areas.

With the additional staff, administrators say, the Medical Examiner's Office will continue to conduct full autopsies on suspected overdoses cases, address lengthy waits for toxicology testing and assist law enforcement in pursuing homicide charges against drug dealers who can be linked to fatal overdoses.

At Insite, a safe - injection site in Vancouver, for example, there was a 35 percent reduction in fatal overdoses in the area around the facility, compared with a 9.3 percent reduction in other parts of the city that may have had other interventions.

That means too much morphine, and the possibility of a fatal overdose.

What happens in the body during a fatal overdose?

The drug has been linked to fatal overdoses and brain damage.

«In locales where people are injecting opiates, there are an estimated five new hepatitis C infections for every fatal 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.

Fatal overdoses are nearly unheard of.

Even the most severe critics, Bachhuber says, would accept that medical cannabis is safer than opioids when it comes to the risk of fatal overdose.

Synthetic opioids — primarily fentanyl — were involved in more than 30 percent of fatal overdoses in 2016, up from roughly 8 percent in 2010, the researchers reported.

Hank proceeds to harangue Doc every time that Doc shoots up; whining, begging, insulting, sniveling, and cajoling, Hank wields even more power over Doc dead than alive, and his poltergeist - like sensibilities provide comic relief as well as highlight Doc's own sense of regret for his role in Hank's fatal overdose.

The reason for the change in law is that concerns were raised after Dr Daniel Ubani, a German doctor, gave Mr David Gray a fatal overdose on his on his first and only shift in the UK.