Sentences with phrase «helping opioid addicts»
Onondaga County started a program this week at the Onondaga County Justice Center and the Jamesville Corrections Facility aimed at helping opioid addicts stay clean after they are released from jail.
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Chrono is finalizing a patch that helps patients overcome nicotine addiction, and is making a similar patch for those addicted to opioids.
There have always been drug addicts in need of help, but the scale of the present wave of heroin and opioid abuse is unprecedented.
There have always been drug addicts in need of help, but the scale of the present wave of heroin and opioid abuse is....
Opioid addiction has been an issue seized on by Senate Republicans, who have emphasized efforts to help and find treatment for those addicted — a stance that some have felt stands in stark contrast to the rhetoric surrounding drug epidemics in the 1980s.
Dan Rinaldo of the Federal High Intensity Drug Trafficking program speaks during a news conference, during which officials announced a new initiative that unites police and volunteers to arrange help for local opioid addicts.
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.
HARTFORD — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Friday signed sweeping legislation that aims to reduce the number of opioid pills sitting in medicine cabinets, provide new help to addicts and make it easier to administer life - saving drugs to those who overdose.
More than a dozen local law enforcement agencies are looking for some «angels» to help them in a new program that works with opioid addicts.
But Upstate New York Poison Center clinical toxicologist Jeanna Marraffa says the drug is used by opioid addicts to get high, or to help with withdrawal symptoms.
Former opioid and heroin addict Melissa Ives thanks Michael Batstone, an investigator with the Oswego County Drug Task Force, for helping her on the road to recovery.
Using marijuana could help some alcoholics and people addicted to opioids kick their habits, a UBC study has found.
One postdoc in Peterson's lab, for example, is using zebrafish to study opioid addiction, trying to identify genes that heighten drug - seeking behavior and thus could be useful targets for helping human addicts.
Unfortunately, this has led our addictive opioid receptors — which primarily helped us select appropriate foods — to become addicted to the wrong foods.