Sentences with phrase «now drug overdoses»

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It is now significantly more likely that an American will die of a drug overdose than in a car crash.

As Fortune reported in an in - depth report on the crisis in September, an American is now far likelier to die of a drug overdose than in a car crash.

Worryingly, people who overdose on such designer drugs, known collectively as China White, have been said to be less responsive to antidotes now widely carried by first responders.

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.

Deaths caused by accidental drug overdoses in the US now exceed those from motor vehicle incidents and guns.

Drug overdose, driven primarily by opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury deaths in the United States, and trends indicate that premature deaths associated with the use of opioids are likely to climb.

Opioids, often prescribed as pain medications, have now become the country's leading cause of drug overdose.

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.

Pharmaceutical drugs kill thousands of people prematurely every year — they are now the largest cause of fatal drug overdoses (18).

After starring, using only her voice, as Joaquin Phoenix's sexy cellphone lover in Her, and as a man - eating alien without a conscience in Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin, she now brings it all together in Luc Besson's ridiculous, incoherent but pretty entertaining Lucy, as a hard - partying young American exchange student in Taiwan who, thanks to a drug overdose, becomes God.

It's now six months since Philip Seymour Hoffman died suddenly of a suspected drug overdose, but his latest movie opened here in selected cinemas yesterday.

According to the CDC deaths from drug overdoses now outnumber deaths caused by car accidents, with about 110 overdose deaths per day and more than fifty percent of those involving opioids.

Australia has been warned by the Australian Crime Commission its methamphetamine problem is reaching pandemic proportions — with overdose deaths from ice now second only to heroin — and in an interview with 3AW, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that the «war on drugs» was looking unwinnable.