Sentences with phrase «opioid addiction epidemic»

Called the «overdose drug» because it counteracts the potentially lethal effects of heroin, oxycodone, and other abused narcotics, this lifesaving medicine is making headlines thanks to the opioid addiction epidemic.

But an opioid addiction epidemic spreading across the United States has soured some doctors on the drugs.

But the drug has been linked to an opioid addiction epidemic that has swept Canada and the US.

These findings, which appear in Substance Abuse, come amid an opioid addiction epidemic and could offer a roadmap for how best to equip communities to prevent deaths from drug overdoses.

On the same day the Congressional Budget Office issued its assessment of the Senate's proposed health bill, the Cuomo Administration offered its own sharp criticism of a bill they say will prove devastating to everyday New Yorkers while seriously harming efforts to battle an ongoing opioid addiction epidemic.

Another way in which Erie County is protecting the public's health is in addressing the terrible opioid addiction epidemic facing our community.

A new 24 - hour, 365 - day - a year hotline aimed at addressing Erie County's opioid addiction epidemic went live Monday morning.

The Task Force was charged with identifying ways to address the growing opioid addiction epidemic.

The budget resolution backed by Republicans in the state Senate on Thursday rejects $ 1 billion in tax increases while also seeking to spend $ 265 million on fighting the opioid addiction epidemic and bolster school security in the wake of a high school shooting in Florida.

«It wasn't until last year that his administration sought any increase in funding to address the opioid addiction epidemic,» Kolodny said.

(Other naloxone sellers like Kaleo, Mylan, and Adapt Pharma have pursued similar strategies, inspiring the wrath of U.S. Senators who say the firms were taking advantage of America's widespread opioid addiction epidemic and putting profits over patients.)

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions» wide - ranging new crackdown on drug offenders could exacerbate one of America's most persistent public health tragedies: the heroin and opioid addiction epidemic that's been ravaging the country and killed nearly 35,000 Americans in 2015 alone.

Not exact matches

President Donald Trump made combating America's opioid addiction and prescription painkiller epidemic a major plank of his 2016 campaign.

U.S. life expectancy has actually fallen for two years in a row — and while the opioid addiction and overdose epidemic has a part to play in that, overall, the diseases that kill Americans have been killing a larger share of them.

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

We can also show you research that says in states where medical cannabis is legal, opioid overdose deaths and addiction treatment admissions have fallen, providing a glimmer of hope to perhaps solving an American epidemic.

Opioid addictions are on the rise, as is the number of families impacted by the hardship the epidemic inflicts.

Opioid addiction has been an issue seized on by Senate Republicans, who have emphasized efforts to help and find treatment for those addicted — a stance that some have felt stands in stark contrast to the rhetoric surrounding drug epidemics in the 1980s.

The move would come as New York and most of the nation continues to battle what public health officials say is an epidemic of heroin and opioid addiction, an issue that has especially ravaged parts of upstate New York.

Those include a tax on vapor products, a 2 - cent per milligram tax on opioid prescriptions framed as a way to combat the heroine addiction epidemic, and a «windfall profit fee» on health insurance companies.

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ALBANY — State lawmakers are looking to medical marijuana to help combat the epidemic of opioid addiction.

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand brought her campaign to fight the scourge of opioid addiction and death to the City of Newburgh on Friday where she announced new legislation that will target the epidemic at one of its key sources: opioid pain medication prescriptions.

ERIE COUNTY, N.Y. — Preventing one of the most common paths to addiction is one of the ways Erie County will use a $ 64,000 grant from the Tower Foundation to address the deadly opioid epidemic.

At 10:30 a.m., Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Senate Joint Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction co-chairs Sens. George Amedore, Fred Akshar, and Chris Jacobs will announce the Senate's next steps in the fight against the state's heroin and opioid epidemic, Room 124, state Capitol, AOpioid Addiction co-chairs Sens. George Amedore, Fred Akshar, and Chris Jacobs will announce the Senate's next steps in the fight against the state's heroin and opioid epidemic, Room 124, state Capitol, Aopioid epidemic, Room 124, state Capitol, Albany.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo told residents of opioid addiction - ravaged Staten Island that he considered the present - day heroin epidemic worse than the crack epidemic that tore through predominantly nonwhite New York neighborhoods during the 1980s.

«Providing addicts with a place to inject and feed their drug dependency instead of a place to recover and overcome their addiction is patently irresponsible and completely misses the mark in solving the opioid epidemic,» Malliotakis said.

DA Flynn speaks at Black Balloon Day event hosted by the Erie County Department of Health Opiate Epidemic Task Force to remember those who lost their lives to opioid addiction.

-- Opioid epidemic surcharge ($ 127 million): With New York among the states hit hardest by the heroin and painkiller addiction epidemic, Cuomo is looking to place a 2 - cents - per - milligram tax on opioids sold in the state, to be paid by drug manufacturers.

State Senator James Seward brought the Joint Senate Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction to the Cortland County Office Building Auditorium Wednesday afternoon for a public hearing on the opioid and heroin epiOpioid Addiction to the Cortland County Office Building Auditorium Wednesday afternoon for a public hearing on the opioid and heroin epiopioid and heroin epidemic.

Cuomo told residents of opioid addiction - ravaged Staten Island that he considered the present - day heroin epidemic worse than the crack epidemic that tore through predominantly nonwhite New York neighborhoods during the 1980s.

«New York and the nation as a whole is grappling with how to combat heroin and opioid addiction and, with this comprehensive plan, we are continuing to take decisive action to end this epidemic and protect our families and communities,» Cuomo said in a statement.

As the country grapples with the addiction epidemic, one Capital Region hospital is offering opioid - free surgery for a select number of operations.

The governor and state attorney general announced separate initiatives to tackle the opioid - heroin epidemic, while another health insurer took action against Western New York Dr. Eugene J. Gosy, and a group of experts is arranging a program to provide free training on how to serve those suffering from addiction.

«As the Chairman of the Senate Joint Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction, Phil traveled the State gathering information on the devastating heroin epidemic that has wreaked havoc across New York,» the committee said in its endorsement announcement.

At 1:30 p.m., Hochul launches a new mobile addiction treatment RV to combat the heroin and opioid epidemic, BestSelf Behavioral Health, 262 Woodward Ave., Kenmore.

In the face of roughly 11 deaths each week in Erie County due to opioid drug overdoses, the County Legislature is poised to approve a «crisis response plan» today that would better connect those suffering from addiction with services and expand Health Department programs aimed add addressing the epidemic.

Molinaro also wants to enhance the county's focus on addressing the opioid epidemic with additional addiction and mental health initiatives.

Office of National Drug Control Policy Acting Director Michael Botticelli said the country is having trouble quantifying the epidemic of heroin and opioid addiction.

«Heroin and opioid abuse and addiction are nothing short of a public health epidemic,» said Marchione.

«Many of Erie County's novelty opioid epidemic programs aim to bring persons struggling with opioid addiction into evidenced - based treatment,» he wrote.

The county is accusing drug companies and distributors of painkillers made from opioids of downplaying the risks of those kinds of drugs that have fueled a nationwide epidemic of opioid addiction.

The opioid epidemic in New York state has spurred expansion of a Syracuse addiction center to include a methadone clinic.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo spoke at a Long Island Addiction Recovery Center this week about his efforts to fight the opioid epidemic in the state.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders agreed Wednesday on legislation to support addiction treatment and enact stricter penalties for illegal drug distribution, in response to what they called a growing heroin, opioid and prescription - drug - abuse epidemic.

«Simply put, we have seen no evidence that the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act has fueled the opioid epidemic in Erie County, nor that Medicaid funding somehow fuels opioid addiction,» Poloncarz said in a statement.

As the opioid epidemic continues across the country, one graduate student is working on the collegiate level to provide a support system to treat opioid and other types of addiction on campus.

As a Co-chair of the Joint Senate Task Force on Heroin & Opioid Addiction, I recognize that communities across our state are in need of additional resources to fight this epidemic, and I look forward to working with my colleagues in Albany to help address those needs.

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This event addressed the demographics and sociology of the opioid epidemic, the science of opioid addiction, and treatment options.