Sentences with phrase «opioid abuse more»

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.

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There are some startling stats behind the idea: 65 % of opioid abusers get them from unwitting family and friends, and about one third of medications sold go unused, meaning they're more readily available for abuse.

While South Florida is facing an opioid epidemic, the NBC 6 Investigators spoke to some who have been down the path to heroin addiction, and they recall what led them to that place in their life: abuse of prescription pain... Read More

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«This first - in - the - nation program will help put this lifesaving treatment in more hands and is one more prong in this administration's efforts to battle heroin and opioid abuse,» Cuomo said.

COMBAT heroin, opioid and substance abuse crisis with more funding at local and county level for proven prevention programs, education efforts for teens, parents and school and medical professionals.

«Last year alone, in communities all across the country, including many in New York, 1,400,000 more Americans started abusing opioids, and every day, 44 more people are killed by an overdose,» Gillibrand said.

More than 11 million people misused the painkillers and almost 2 million people had opioid dependence or abuse.

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.

In addressing the symposium held in the AAAS Auditorium, Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse, said the opioid addiction problem «came out of the health care system» after it was determined that opioid prescription medicine was needed to treat chronic pain affecting more than 100 million Americans.

Some people who have primarily abused opioid pain medication have turned to gabapentin after crackdowns made it more difficult to obtain opioid prescriptions or purchase the drug on the street because of its expense.

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.

Older adults are among the largest consumers of prescription opioids in the U.S. Compared with people holding commercial health insurance, Medicare enrollees are at least five times more likely to be diagnosed with opiate abuse and are also particularly vulnerable to toxic and other negative effects of opiate use.

Prescription opioid overdoses killed more than 165,000 Americans between 1999 and 2014, and the health and social costs of abusing such drugs are estimated to be as much as $ 55 billion a year.

For Dr. Mark Edlund, a senior public health analyst at RTI International who was also not involved in the study, it adds to a growing and worrisome body of evidence that people with mental health disorders who are at higher risk for abusing opioids are also more likely to receive opioid prescriptions.

People with mood disorders are at increased risk of abusing opioids, and yet they received many more prescriptions than the general population, according to an analysis of data from 2011 and 2013.

Every day, more than 90 Americans die after overdosing on opioids, and the economic burden of prescription opioid misuse in the United States totals $ 78.5 billion per year, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

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.

More people are dying of opioid abuse and accidental overdose than ever before.

Prescription drug abuse is widespread and — along with opioid abuse — it's killing more Americans than auto accidents.