Sentences with phrase «opioid addictions in»

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As people continue to die from heroin and opioid addiction in central and northern New York, communities like Oswego County are offering new treatment programs to combat the crisis.
One area of concern is the rising rate of opioid addiction in New York state.
As he signed a package of bills into law aimed at stemming the tide of heroin and opioid addiction in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo singled out Senate Republicans on Wednesday for praise.
The measure would drug more readily available amid heightened concerns over the impact of the heroin and opioid addiction in New York.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the top lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly on Tuesday announced they had reached an agreement on a package of bills that are aimed at combating heroin and opioid addiction in New York.
Assembly members are vowing to expand funding for treatment for opioid addiction in New York.
As Erie County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein read the names, she was surrounded by black balloons: a symbol of the lives lost to opioid addiction in Erie County.
Christie has been active in addressing opioid addiction in his state and New Jersey now has some of the toughest prescribing restrictions for opioids.
Variations in the genes OPRM1, ABCB1, and COMT are associated with risk for opioid addiction in adults.

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• Braeburn Pharmaceuticals, a Princeton, N.J. - based provider of treatment solutions for opioid addiction, raised $ 110 million in funding.
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.
One big headline item: the new CDC report finding that the opioid and heroin addiction crisis is fueling a massive surge in hepatitis C cases.
Introducing the new science of «hotspotting» — and a fantastic new online resource in the fight against opioid addiction.
Each time the BCRA has been modified to meet moderates» demands — say, by adding far more money to tackle the opioid addiction crisis, as the latest draft does — some other provision upsets the right - wing (such as the investment income taxes which affect the wealthy that are now being kept in the bill).
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.
Part of the reason is that it can take years to access prison rehabilitation programs if you have a longer sentence because people with shorter sentences get priority; despite recent national efforts to make opioid antidotes and addiction treatments more widely accessible, many prisons still don't have these programs in place, leaving addicts who make it out of prison far more susceptible to relapse.
«There's a big difference between [medical marijuana] and recreational marijuana, and I think when you see something like the opioid addiction crisis blossoming in so many states around this country, the last thing we should be doing is encouraging people,» said Spicer during the briefing.
The designation of a public health emergency would expand the ways that individuals can get treatment for opioid addiction, which could particularly benefit people in rural areas.
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.
President Donald Trump's pick to replace former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Dr. Jerome Adams, is getting some bipartisan praise for his efforts to combat opioid addiction and the HIV scourge in Indiana — where, maybe not - so - incidentally, he served under then - Gov.
Although an opioid addiction vaccine is still in the early stages, there are new medications to fight the crisis that are much further along.
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.
Groups is very simple: For $ 65 a week, it offers group therapy in areas plagued by opioid addiction — targeting towns with fewer than 10,000 residents and little access to recovery programs — so people at different stages of recovery can learn from one another.
Trump was right in pointing out that it will take all of us working together at a local level to reverse the tides of opioid addiction.
Large employers, which help provide the vast majority of Americans» private health insurance, paid for more than $ 2.6 billion worth of opioid addiction and overdose treatment services in 2016, KFF finds.
Of the $ 2.6 billion in treatment for opioid addiction and overdoses, $ 2.3 billion was paid by insurance, while another $ 335 million was paid out of pocket — and more than half went toward covering employees» children.
«It wasn't until last year that his administration sought any increase in funding to address the opioid addiction epidemic,» Kolodny said.
These seemingly harmless customer services are being used as currency in an unlikely and dangerous economy that is supporting the drug habits of people who suffer from opioid addiction.
«All too often, the Christy Clark government relies on crisis management responses to urgent issues in B.C., and our two - year crisis in opioid addiction is yet another example.
There is a long history at play here between Kanye's obsession with celebrity, his sense of kinship with bombastic figures like Trump, and his very public struggles with his mother's death in 2007, his mental health, and his recently disclosed opioid addiction.
Lawmakers in more than a dozen states have proposed taxing prescription painkillers as a way to hold drugmakers accountable for the nation's opioid addiction and overdose crisis.
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
Several of the addiction professionals interviewed for this article sent lists of the proper terminology to use when writing about opioid addiction, and instructions on how to write about it in a caring way.
Though it's been particularly hard - hit, Ohio isn't alone in having to deal with the crisis of death caused by opioid addiction and overdoses.
Players are stand - ins for the people cannabis criminalization most negatively affects: Not only are they nearly 75 percent black, but former players are also disproportionately afflicted with opioid addiction.
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 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.
Sen. Martin Golden on Friday apologized after he was criticized for saying in an interview that heroin is not a «ghetto drug» and suggesting the opioid addiction crisis was impacting upper income people.
Republican state senators are cheering a bipartisan bill in the U.S. Senate that is aimed at combatting heroin and opioid addiction introduced this week.
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.
«I'm proud that the Senate's Joint Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction continues to take a bottom - up approach in dealing with the scourge of aAddiction continues to take a bottom - up approach in dealing with the scourge of addictionaddiction.
Republicans also point to a package of heroin prevention measures that had come in part from a task force in the Senate on heroin and opioid addiction.
Also at 1 p.m., parents who lost loved ones to the opioid pandemic will join a person in recovery from addiction and New York Association of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers Executive Director John Coppola to share their stories and advocate for state resources that match the magnitude of the crisis, Million Dollar Staircase, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.
Reynolds added that he realizes there is a serious opioid addiction problem in Broome County, «but having an honest and open discussion over how best to dispense public tax dollars to combat that problem should always be an accepted practice.»
Vivitrol, on the other hand, is designed to block opioid receptors in the brain, which prevents users from getting high and, in theory, helps break their addiction.
In May, after 18 months of hearings throughout the state, Republicans who control the state Senate issued a report on heroin and opioid addiction.
A bill advancing in the Assembly would bar insurers from requiring prior authorization for certain drugs used in the treatment of opioid addiction, including «long - acting injectable naltrexone.»
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.
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.
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