Sentences with phrase «from opioid deaths»

Cities and states reeling from opioid deaths need to give serious consideration to setting up safe injection rooms, which could significantly reduce fatalities.

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The tribe, which says it is prepared to seek damages against the companies in state court, notes in its suit that from 2003 to 2014, more than 350 deaths related to opioids occurred in the Cherokee Nation.

Graphics show death rate from opioid overdoses in the U.S. and number of narcotic painkiller prescriptions.

Deaths from the illicit and powerful opioid heroin increased more than sevenfold over that span, to nearly than 13,000.

The increased adoption is driven, of course, by the nation's deepening opioid epidemic — a scourge fueled by prescription pain pill abuse and cheap heroin that resulted in 24,200 overdose deaths in 2013, up 315 % from 1999.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP)-- Some of the pills taken from Prince's estate in Paisley Park after his death were counterfeit drugs that actually contained fentanyl — a synthetic opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin, an official close to the investigation said.

In the three years since, the number of overdose deaths involving fentanyl has skyrocketed at a rate that outpaces deaths from any other opioid, including heroin, hydrocodone, and oxycodone.

Drugmakers have benefitted from the surge of opioid - related deaths in the U.S.; last year, Bloomberg reported that the drug's price had risen tenfold in recent years, with state and local governments shelling out to make the med more widely available.

Drug overdose deaths — originally from prescription opioids but increasingly now from heroin and fentanyl — have emerged as an increasingly grave social issue, steadily worsening over the past few years even as the economy improves.

According to a report from Politico, the White House's soon - to - be-unveiled plan to combat the opioid crisis includes one detail that should terrify and outrage pro-life advocates: The death penalty for even low - level drug dealers.

Facing a rising death toll from drug overdoses, state lawmakers across the country are testing a strategy to boost treatment for opioid addicts: Force drug manufacturers and their distributors to pay for it.

Prince's heirs have sued Walgreens and the Illinois hospital that treated the music superstar after he suffered from an opioid overdose, alleging that a doctor and various pharmacists failed to provide Prince with reasonable care, contributing to his death.

The New York Democrat announced his support for the legislation Tuesday in Rochester, where he says there have been increases in crimes, overdoses and deaths from opioids and synthetic counterparts.

2013 through 2015 there have been 77 opioid related deaths including 46 from Heroin.

The above article was updated to correct several statistics from the city Department of Health and to clarify that Staten Island recorded the highest rate of drug overdose deaths overall, not just opioid overdose deaths, in 2014.

State senators are turning to police, doctors, and their constituents for proposed solutions to the increase in deaths from opioid overdoses.

«Having Naloxone readily available is a great first step in our battle against overdose deaths from opioids and heroin,» said Carlucci, who sponsored the naloxone bill.

The measures come amid a record - high number of deaths from heroin or opioid - related abuse in 2014, according to a report released earlier this month by Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office.

«Every member of the New York delegation should be held accountable for doing everything within their means to stop this reprehensible bill from threatening our ability to combat the opioid crisis and stop the ever - rising death toll.»

In the face of roughly 11 deaths each week in Erie County due to opioid drug overdoses, the County Legislature is poised to approve a «crisis response plan» today that would better connect those suffering from addiction with services and expand Health Department programs aimed add addressing the epidemic.

Overdose deaths from opioids, including prescription opioids and heroin, have more than quadrupled since 1999, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Overdoses involving opioids killed more than 28,000 people in the nation in 2014, and more than half of those deaths were from prescription opioids.

But the number of deaths from heroin and opioids alone continues to rise, more than doubling in Erie County alone between 2014 and 2015.

In 2016, 33 people, ranging from 22 to 64 died from opioid - related deaths in Rensselaer County.

In Erie County, deaths from heroin or opioid overdoses more than doubled between 2014 and 2015, according to the Erie County Health Department.

From 2009 to 2013, it had the state's 8th - highest rate of opioid overdose deaths per 100,000 population.

Earlier this year, the County Executive launched Project WORTHY — Westchester Opioid Response Teams Helping You to battle the growing problem of opioid addiction and a 200 percent spike in deaths in Westchester from 2010 throughOpioid Response Teams Helping You to battle the growing problem of opioid addiction and a 200 percent spike in deaths in Westchester from 2010 throughopioid addiction and a 200 percent spike in deaths in Westchester from 2010 through 2015.

According to the state Health Department, Niagara County tallied 22 deaths from opioid overdoses in 2015 - an increase of one from the previous year - and six more deaths were reported in the first half of 2016, which is the most recent data available.

The Research Institute is coordinating a statewide program to identify and train doctors and other health professionals in 16 counties and tribal areas in the state where high death and hospitalization rates from opioid abuse have occurred.

The effort comes as a way to stem the tide of rising costs for government and public safety from a growing drug epidemic in Westchester County, which has seen opioid - related deaths increase by 60 percent in the last year, according to county Legislator Ben Boykin, a White Plains Democrat.

We can not stand still while deaths from fatal opioid overdoses continue to rise at an accelerating rate.

As the death toll from opioid overdoses continues to rise, Erie County is hitting back with a lawsuit against pharmaceutical makers and doctors who prescribe the drugs.

If this site does get off the ground, it could finally pave the way for other cities to follow suit — giving communities new hope that the rising death toll from the opioid crisis might finally begin to reverse.

Annual opioid fatalities have now surpassed the yearly number of deaths from AIDS at the height of that epidemic in the mid-1990s.

Researchers from RAND and the University of California, Irvine analyzed information about treatment admissions for addiction to pain medications from 1999 to 2012 and state - level overdose deaths from opioids from 1999 to 2013.

«Our findings are consistent with previous studies showing an association between the legalization of medical marijuana and lower deaths from overdoses of opioids,» said Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, co-author of the study and co-director of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center.

When the researchers narrowly focused on the time period from 1999 to 2010 and replicated a model used by other researchers, they obtained results similar to those previously published, showing an approximately 20 percent decline in opioid overdose deaths associated with the passage of any state medical marijuana law.

Deaths and cases of substance use disorders linked to opioid painkillers have risen to epidemic levels nationally, with more than 14,000 deaths from prescription opioids in 2014 according to the Centers for Disease Control and PreveDeaths and cases of substance use disorders linked to opioid painkillers have risen to epidemic levels nationally, with more than 14,000 deaths from prescription opioids in 2014 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevedeaths from prescription opioids in 2014 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

«It's suggestive evidence that medical marijuana might help divert people away from the path where they would start using [an opioid drug], and of course if they don't start, they're not on that path to misuse and abuse and potentially death.»

U.S. deaths from prescription opioids have roughly quadrupled in the last 2 decades, reaching 21,000 in 2014.

In the cartogram below, the size of each state reflects the total number of prescription opioid overdose deaths from 1999 — 2014.

The increase is likely due to rising numbers of overdose deaths from opioids (SN: 6/10/17, p. 22), says Christine Durand, a transplant infectious disease specialist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

U.S. deaths from opioid overdoses are mounting with breathtaking speed.

Death from opioid overdose is preventable through timely administration of the antidote naloxone.

According to the CDC, drug overdose deaths from synthetic opioids like fentanyl increased by 72 per cent between 2014 and 2015.

Approximately 60 percent of all deaths resulting from opioid analgesic overdoses occur in patients who have legitimate prescriptions.

«Appropriate access to medication - assisted therapies under Medicaid is a key piece of the strategy to address the rising rate of death from overdoses of prescription opioids,» said co-author Stephen Cha, M.D., M.H.S., chief medical officer for the Center for Medicaid and CHIP [Children's Health Insurance Program] Services at CMS.

On average, states allowing the medical use of marijuana have lower rates of deaths resulting from opioid analgesic overdoses than states without such laws.

For each $ 10,000 reduction in net income per farm, opioid overdoses rose by 10 percent from a national average of 10.2 deaths per 100,000 people to 11.2 deaths per 100,000 people.

These findings, which appear in Substance Abuse, come amid an opioid addiction epidemic and could offer a roadmap for how best to equip communities to prevent deaths from drug overdoses.