Sentences with phrase «national opioid crisis»
Nassau County made its move in the midst of a national opioid crisis that's a public health emergency.
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«It's a way for us to engage the argument around drug policy for folks who might not necessarily think in those terms, or be familiar with the larger debate, which is our whole interest — taking the debate beyond the field, especially during a national opioid crisis.»
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«I'm officially declaring the opioid crisis a national public health emergency under federal law,» Trump said at a White House event.
Former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg: «The opioid epidemic is now a full - blown national crisis, yet the federal government continues to dawdle.»
Erie County leaders expressed alarm and outrage over a report by National Public Radio on Friday that the Trump administration is thinking about gutting several federal programs aimed at fighting the opioid drug crisis.
Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz has been traveling a lot this year, stumping for the need to fight the opioid crisis as a member of the National Opioid Task opioid crisis as a member of the National Opioid Task Opioid Task Force.
Erie County leaders expressed alarm and outrage Saturday over a report by National Public Radio on Friday that the Trump administration is thinking about gutting several federal programs aimed at fighting the opioid drug crisis.
Topical lectures will include discussions on the responsibility of the scientific community to address sexual harassment by Meg Urry of Yale University; solutions to the opioid crisis by Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse; the future of science in Africa by Thomas Kariuki of the African Academy of Sciences; forensic science and the law by federal district judge Jed Rakoff; music for brain health by Nina Kraus of Northwestern University; the violence of migration by anthropologist Jason De León of the University of Michigan; and more.
«The opioid epidemic is a national crisis that should not be underestimated.»
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration screens new opioid drugs it should better anticipate how people might abuse them in the real world, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine warns in a major report issued Thursday on the country's opioid crisis, which kills 91 people a day — often via overdoses on prescription drugs.
The study abstract, «Opioid abuse in children: An emerging public health crisis,» will be presented on Monday, Sept. 18, during the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) 2017 National Conference & Exhibition in Chicago.
The opioid epidemic is a national crisis.
The White House just declared the opioid epidemic a national public health emergency, and that means all eyes are on opioids and what strategies we can use to fight this national health crisis that killed more than 15,000 Americans in 2015 alone.
The national drumbeat is growing louder for politicians to deal with the growing opioids abuse crisis.
A new resource from Child Trends collects national data and information about how the opioid epidemic is affecting children and families and the different ways that states are responding to the crisis.