"Opioid abuse" refers to the misuse or excessive use of medications or drugs called opioids, which can cause addiction, harm, and negative effects on a person's health and well-being.
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In their latest response to the epidemic
of opioid abuse, state lawmakers are indulging a habit - forming practice of their own: imposing mandates on health insurance.
A comprehensive strategy of risk assessment is needed to identify patients who may be at risk
for opioid abuse.
That question will be one of many to be addressed by a newly formed public awareness task force
about opioid abuse.
The mayor announced new programs to
tackle opioid abuse and money in the budget to build an indoor pool.
The recent increase in
opioid abuse requires a focus, not only on the adults who are struggling with use and addiction but on the epidemic's extensive impacts on children.
Also discussed were issues
of opioid abuse, treatment and response; the need for better cell service and broadband and the securing resources for law enforcement.
If you have back pain and suffer depression or anxiety you're at even greater risk
for opioid abuse and addiction, according to recent research.
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«The growth we observe over time in opioid prescribing after surgery occurs against the backdrop of a major public health crisis of
prescription opioid abuse.
The new paper, «The Critical Care Crisis of Opioid Overdoses in the United States» published online ahead of print in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society is believed to be the first to quantify the impact of
opioid abuse on critical care resources in the U.S..
At 3:30 p.m., Hochul and Co-Chair Commissioner Arlene Gonzalez - Sanchez convene a meeting of the Heroin and
Opioid Abuse Task Force, Capital Region session, Proctors, GE Theatre, 432 State St., Schenectady.
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State Senator John J. Flanagan, a Long Island Republican and majority leader, whose party has been aggressive in response to the heroin crisis, said the plan would «bring hope to communities
battling opioid abuse throughout New York.»
De Blasio assured residents that they had his full support and kicked off the town hall meeting by announcing several new programs aimed at
addressing opioid abuse plaguing Staten Island.
The challenge for the veterinary industry is to avoid triggering a public debate positioned as veterinarians trying to avoid any responsibility for dealing
with opioid abuse when state governments are looking for any and all solutions.
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Efforts to combat heroin and
opioid abuse over the last several years have totaled millions of dollars in new efforts as well as regulations placed on insurance companies to deal with the issue, marking one of the few bipartisan issues facing lawmakers at either the state or federal level.
No alcohol will be served during the Rumble Ponies» game this evening, as they have teamed up with the
Broome Opioid Abuse Council Drug Free Communities for the event.
Broome County Health Director Rebecca Kaufman has been appointed the head of the Broome
Opioid Abuse Council.
Members of the panel spoke about warning signs of addiction, advice for parents who fear their child is using opiates, local resources for addiction and the dangerous repercussions that
follow opioid abuse.
According to NPR, Democratic senators just introduced a bill that would funnel almost $ 50 billion toward
opioid abuse prevention, treatment, and research.
Results from the same survey released last week found that more than half of New Yorkers have been touched by the opioid crisis, and one in four know someone who's died
from opioid abuse.
The draft bill, which is dated May 27, comes weeks after Cuomo convened a task force to examine how to
prevent opioid abuse and how to address opioid and heroin addiction.
Marino was under fire after reports emerged that he'd boosted a law that eventually made it harder for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to freeze certain suspicious shipments, which critics say made federal efforts to fight
opioid abuse more difficult.
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.
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health want to understand why current dosages of the antidotes are failing in some cases, yet the nationwide law - enforcement crackdown on
opioid abuse means they're having a hard time getting permission to get samples of the illegal products they need to study.
Little Woods is a bleak, powerful portrait of middle America that never veers on cloying, and handles difficult current - day issues
like opioid abuse and abortion with grace.
The «Kitchen Table Toolkit» unveiled by the state Combat Heroin and Prescription
Opioid Abuse campaign contains two clips — one that focuses on the impact of addiction and another featuring testimonials from young people who have battled drug addiction.
The budget agreement would give both the Pentagon and domestic agencies relief from a budget freeze that lawmakers say threatens military readiness and training as well as domestic priorities such as
combating opioid abuse and repairing the troubled health care system for veterans.
At 10 a.m., Cuomo signs legislation intended to combat heroin and
opioid abuse into law, Evergreen Commons, 262 Georgia St., Buffalo.
At 9:30 a.m., Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, Commissioner of Health Gale Burstein, U.S. Attorney for the Western District William Hochul and police chiefs make a plea for volunteers to help combat the region's
ongoing opioid abuse epidemic, Erie County Fire Training Academy, 3359 Broadway St., Cheektowaga.
«There has been a dramatic increase in drug and
opioid abuse nationwide that has destroyed many people's lives and if marijuana usage has played any role, now is not the time to expand its use through legalization,» Fahy wrote.
Wachunas said she deals with different communicable diseases all of the time, but
opioid abuse continues to be problematic.
The package appears at odds with a competing set of 11 legislative proposals to address heroin and
opioid abuse sent to the Senate and Assembly by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, according to a list supplied by a patient advocate.
The recent spike in
opioid abuse cases in central New York and across the country has people discussing how to get their hands on Narcan, also known as naloxone, a drug that can be quickly administered in an emergency to reverse the effects of a heroin overdose.
Overdose deaths related to heroin and prescription
opioid abuse reached record highs in New York State in 2014, according to a report issued today by State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.
People with drug addictions who
started opioid abuse later in life use injections for their drugs, or increased their use of downers before starting drug treatment, are more likely to relapse from treatment than others, says a new study from McMaster University.
«Historically, drug withdrawal for newborns has been described among illicit drug use such as heroin or women treated for
previous opioid abuse, but this is really one of the first studies to look at legal prescriptions for pregnant women.
In addition, the study authors found that these women were much more likely to have
opioid abuse disorder, along with other forms of substance abuse, compared with the rest of the group.
Cooper's plan also would
expand opioid abuse treatment programs much further than Republicans now propose.
Most of the legislative activity in 2018 is a quiet effort to persuade legislators to treat veterinary medicine differently than human medicine for a host of reasons, anchored by a view that this is fundamentally a crisis in human health care and that a paucity of data
links opioid abuse to pet health care.