Sentences with phrase «on opioid overdoses»

If climatologists» warnings are correct, a changing climate could produce more extreme weather patterns, which could then have an effect on opioid overdoses and deaths, said Goetz, who worked with Meri Davlasheridze, assistant professor in marine sciences, Texas A&M at Galveston.

Dr. Bachhuber is author of an ecological study finding a protective effect of medical marijuana regulation on opioid overdose mortality,

Not exact matches

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (Reuters)- Nine students from the University of California, Santa Barbara suffered an apparent mass overdose of prescription opioids at a party and were taken to a local hospital, police said on Friday.

Since opioid painkillers slow breathing and act on the same brain systems as heroin, they carry serious risks of overdose and, in rarer cases, addiction.

On Thursday, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy sent this letter to 2.3 million American doctors asking for their help to curb what's being called an «unprecedented» epidemic of opioid painkiller overdose deaths.

In 2011, 31 % of prescription - opioid - related overdose deaths involved these two kinds of drugs used together, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

President Donald Trump revealed his new plan to combat the opioid crisis on Monday in New Hampshire, a state hard - hit by painkiller and heroin addiction and overdose in recent years.

Other pain points included drug pricing and how approving more generics may affect costs (Gottlieb parried that question by noting the FDA doesn't have the authority to negotiate prices or consider pricing when approving a drug) and his alleged softness on opioid drug makers due the aforementioned financial ties and pro-industry ideology (the nominee noted that he considers opioid addiction and overdoses a public health crisis «on the order of Ebola and Zika»).

The White House report on the epidemic says that 142 Americans die of drug overdoses every day, and urges measures like federal legislation that would boost widespread adoption of naloxone, an opioid overdose antidote.

This study, plus an earlier on in Israel, bolsters anecdotal evidence that in states where marijuana is legal, opioid overdoses decline.

U.S. senators Susan Collins (R - ME) and Claire McCaskill (D - MO)-- the committee's chairwoman and ranking member — have reached out to Pfizer ($ PFE), Mylan ($ MYL), Amphastar ($ AMPH), Adapt Pharma and Kaleo, asking them to account for their pricing moves on the med, the cost of which has been heading north alongside opioid abuse and overdose rates.

Last year, stats concerning the opioid epidemic crossed a grim new line: Overdoses — mostly on opioids — are now the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50.

(Editor's note: This week alone, about 20 people in the Tampa Bay area will die after overdosing on opioids, according to state statistics and the law of averages.

Republican state Sen. Andrew Lanza on Thursday compared the public outrage to mass shooting deaths and asked why there isn't more for deaths caused by opioid overdoses.

Colleges around the U.S., spurred by fatal student overdoses and grieving families, are distributing lifesaving medication and adding on - campus recovery programs as the nation's opioid epidemic worsens.

Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder on Thursday rolled out a new computerized mapping system that will allow law enforcement to track opioid overdoses in real time.

Among the 48 recommendations were 27 pieces of legislation on a range of topics, including heroin and opioid education, increasing the availability of opioid overdose reversal drugs and removing restrictions to medication assisted treatment.

Small - scale versions of this approach tend to target existing addicts and focus on teaching people to avoid overdose, needle exchanges and opioid substitutes.

Last week, the Governor and legislative leaders reached an agreement on multiple bills that include new programs and insurance reforms to improve treatment options for individuals suffering from heroin and opioid addiction; measures to strengthen penalties and put in place additional tools for law enforcement to crack down on the distribution of illegal drugs; provisions to ensure the proper and safe use of naloxone, an overdose antidote; and support for enhanced public awareness campaigns to prevent drug abuse.

On the issue of opioid abuse, Perini said he would use what is known that the «Kingpin» statute to get penalties of 25 years to life for drug sellers he said were responsible for 400 overdose deaths last year.

«The number of heroin and opioid overdoses is on the rise and the situation is frightening for many residents from all around Erie County.

We will be housing a «COMMUNITY TRAINING OPIOID OVERDOSE RECOGNITION & NALOXONE USE workshop offered by Erie County Department of Health on Tuesday, May 22, 2018, 6 - 8 pm.

Also at 6 p.m., state Sen. David Carlucci hosts a free training on how to administer Naloxone, a medication used to block the effects of an opioid overdose, Pearl River Library, 80 Franklin Ave., Pearl River.

A bill that would allow for the over-the-counter sale of naloxone — a drug used to counter the effects of an opioid overdose — was signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Sen. David Carlucci announced on Friday.

At 11 a.m., the Assembly Committee on Health, Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, and Committee on Insurance hold a public hearing on access to opioid overdose reversal drugs, 250 Broadway, 19th floor, Assembly Hearing Room, Manhattan.

During the past year, with the support of County Executive Robert P. Astorino and the Westchester County Department of Health, more than 750 police officers in 28 police departments have received training on how to give Narcan to opioid overdose victims.

Public health officials on Thursday reported 42 suspected opioid overdose deaths in Erie County for the month so far, half of them since Dec. 19 and six alone on Dec. 27.

On International Overdose Awareness Day and every day, the Department of Health remains dedicated to giving New Yorkers the tools they need to break the cycle of misery caused by heroin and opioid abuse and find their path to recovery.»

Community members were given free Naloxone kits, as well as instructions on how to properly administer the life - saving drug that reverses the effects of opioid overdose.

Based on the survey, 54 percent of New Yorkers have been personally touched by opioid abuse, and 24 percent of New Yorkers personally know someone who has died to an opioid overdose.

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.

Lawmakers also questioned Marks over two - plus hours on a range of judicial issues, including plans to expand Buffalo's successful drug intervention court to other areas of the state hit hard by the opioid overdose crisis.

A small group of parents, teachers and friends highlighted this fact by lighting 180 luminous bags in front of Old County Hall on Monday, roughly the number of opioid overdose deaths cases confirmed by the Health Department so far this year.

On average, one Erie County resident has died of an opioid overdose or suspected opioid overdose every day this year.

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.

The county has seen, on average, 11 deaths per week as the result of heroin or opioid overdoses.

The ECDOH also works to educate people, both citizens and first responders, on how to identify an opioid overdose.

«Time is of the essence when a person has overdosed on opioids,» said Erie County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein.

Officers in all but five police departments in Erie County carry naloxone, known by the brand name Narcan, a rescue nasal spray designed to revive users who overdose on opioid drugs.

Surgeon General Jerome Adams is issuing a rare public health advisory on Thursday, calling for friends and family of people at risk for opioid overdoses to carry the OD - reversal medication naloxone.

The Opioid Epidemic [May 10, 2017] Opioid addiction has reached epidemic proportions in the United States, with overdoses and deaths caused by prescribed and «street» drugs on the rise.

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.

Among other initiatives needed are more rigorous analysis of the potency of illicit drugs being sold on the streets, information campaigns to inform the public of the analyses results and likely dangers, more treatment therapies to ease withdrawal symptoms, programs to get primary care doctors to treat and screen for addictions and wider distribution of Naltrexone, which can reverse an opioid overdose, said Ciccarone.

Accidental overdoses among people taking opioids that interact with other drugs have also been on the rise, so the OSI effort also focused on use of benzodiazepine sedatives.

They found that the annual rate of deaths due to overdose on an opioid painkiller was nearly 25 % lower in states that permitted medical marijuana.

Maureen Boyle, chief of the Science Policy Branch of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Edward Bilsky, a professor of pharmacology and the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Neurosciences at the University of New England, showed how opioids can commandeer the brain's natural systems that control pain and reward, and trigger a vicious response cycle that can diminish the pain - relieving power of medications, prompt users to reach for increasingly larger quantities of opioids and lead to deadly overdoses.

The president's plan would give the NIH an additional $ 750 million for research on the opioid crisis, $ 400 million of which must be spent on public - private partnerships to develop new treatments for pain and overdose.

Most patients in our sample overdosed on prescription opioids, suggesting that further efforts to stem the prescription opioid overdose epidemic are urgently needed,» the study concludes.

«As opioid use and overdose deaths in this country exceed epidemic proportions,» they conclude, «the urgency for an expanded research agenda on best practices for comprehensive treatment could not be more critical.»

Naloxegol is based on the same active molecule as naloxone, a drug developed in the 1960s to counter the effects of opioid overdose.