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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

«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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Bronx County ranked second, with 216 fatal heroin overdoses, the study said, with Nassau in sixth, reporting 128.

According to documents regarding the introduction of the program, in 2015, 107 Westchester County residents died of fatal drug overdoses, and 83 percent of those deaths were caused by heroin — many of such users started with using prescription opioids.

At a time when fatal heroin and opioid overdoses have risen to unprecedented rates — 10 suspected opiate overdose deaths a week in Erie County — many area families complain that health care insurers are denying coverage for loved ones seeking medication and inpatient treatment for their addictions.

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

The county has seen a significant increase in fatal heroin overdoses since 2010 when there was only one heroin death.

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.

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.

The federal Drug Enforcement Agency is setting up a new heroin enforcement team on Long Island — an epicenter of fatal opioid overdoses in recent years.

«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 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 Overdose Prevention Program.

Illicit fentanyl has fueled the alarming rise in the number of fatal opioid overdoses in Erie County and across the country, according to public health officials.

There have been 112 confirmed fatal opioid overdoses so far this year in Erie County and another 132 suspected cases, said County Health Department Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein.

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

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

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

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 results of our final toxicology reports for overdoses that occurred in 2013 show that the rate of fatal heroin overdoses rose more than preliminary figures indicated.

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.

What happens in the body during a fatal overdose?

This plateau coincided with the release of Canadian guidelines for opioids, as well as the first paper showing that the rate of fatal opioid overdoses had increased dramatically in Canada.

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.

In the U.S., fatal heroin overdoses have increased in the past decade by 300 percent, with fentanyl — a substance that is 20 to 50 times more potent than heroin — and its analogs increasingly contributing to overdoseIn the U.S., fatal heroin overdoses have increased in the past decade by 300 percent, with fentanyl — a substance that is 20 to 50 times more potent than heroin — and its analogs increasingly contributing to overdosein the past decade by 300 percent, with fentanyl — a substance that is 20 to 50 times more potent than heroin — and its analogs increasingly contributing to overdoses.

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.

WARNING: Accidental overdose of iron - containing products is a leading cause of fatal poisoning in children under 6.

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.

Deaths caused by overdosing on painkillers now surpass murders and fatal car accidents in the US, and over the past five years, heroin deaths have increased by 45 percent.19

WARNING: Accidental overdose of iron - containing products is a leading cause of fatal poisoning in children under six.

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

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.

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 Overdoverdose 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 OverdoseOverdose Act.