Sentences with phrase «opioid drug epidemic»

Both Bruso and Morton had named the opioid drug epidemic and the need to clean up Como Park Lake as key priorities in their campaigns.

The tax would help fund a $ 200 million effort by the state to battle the opioid drug epidemic through a new Opioid Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Fund.

Both men had named the opioid drug epidemic and the need to clean up Como Park Lake as key priorities in their campaigns.

At 11:15 p.m., Rep. John Katko will join local families, advocates, treatment and prevention specialists, healthcare providers, and law enforcement to highlight the importance of legislation on its way to the president's desk to help end the heroin and opioid drug epidemic, Prevention Network, 906 Spencer St., Syracuse.

Authorities have found a new scapegoat to blame for the ongoing opioid drug epidemic going on in the United State: Bitcoin.

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The agents were particularly interested in the facility's practices when it came to an even smaller subset of those scheduled drugs: the highly addictive pain medicines containing oxycodone and hydrocodone that have been at the center of the nation's opioid epidemic.

The report noted that this drop is due in large part to the growing opioid epidemic in the U.S. — mortality from drug overdoses rose by 21 percent in 2016.

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.

It's been a busy week for health care news between some high - profile setbacks for certain major cancer drug makers, high - profile victories for others, the confirmation of a new FDA chief, health care merger drama, and a slew of public health reports about the opioid epidemic, hepatitis C, and U.S. life expectancy.

And the opioid epidemic is at the forefront of this crisis, with fears the drugs could kill nearly 500,000 people over the next decade.

I'm convinced de-scheduling the drug is needed so we can do research, help our veterans, and reverse the opioid epidemic ravaging our communities.

Pharmacies weren't allowed to take back prescriptions until 2014 when the Drug Enforcement Administration issued new regulations in response to the growing opioid epidemic.

As the executive branch decides how to address the opioid epidemic, communities hit hardest by the prescription drug crisis are beginning to target the pharmaceutical companies responsible for selling the addictive drugs.

And for 27 years, before he was elected sheriff, he presided over court cases — ones that increasingly involved the stories of lives undone by drugs and poverty, and of an opioid epidemic taking root.

Although the offer of DisposeRX for free is coming as a result of the opioid epidemic, the product works on any type of prescription drug, according to Holaday.

The US is suffering from a deadly opioid epidemic, especially in rural areas, thanks to the widespread use of drugs like OxyContin as painkillers.

He points out a couple factors that make it hard to assign blame when it comes to the opioid epidemic — pain meds are lawful drugs, approved and regulated by the federal government, and there are «a whole lot of intermediaries: in the distribution process.

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.

«Even if it remains a Schedule I substance, the DEA will continue to allocate its resources and time to the biggest and most violent drug traffickers,» he says, explaining most of the agency's resources are being used to deal with the current opioid epidemic, which kills more people each year than auto accidents.

The next HHS Secretary will have to address America's opioid epidemic crisis; funding for scientific research; and proposed reforms to the drug approval process, among much, much more.

The Ultimate Deterrent: Trump's forthcoming proposals to address the opioid epidemic reportedly include the death penalty for some drug dealers — an idea that Republican lawmakers appear to be open to.

But what makes the concept of executing drug dealers especially problematic — in addition to its inconsistencies with a pro-life ethic — is its radical approach to trying to deal with the opioid 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.

President Trump traveled to the first - in - the - nation primary state of New Hampshire to rail against drug dealers responsible for the deadly opioid epidemic devastating the US, vowing «tough action» including the death penalty.

Trump, returning to a state he last year referred to as a «drug - infested den,» is traveling to New Hampshire today with plans to announce a new policy on combating the opioid epidemic.

Hospitals use these medications for in - patients only, so those drugs operate in a largely different market than the rogue prescription drugs, heroin and fentanyl fueling the nationwide opioid epidemic, which claimed 268 lives in Erie County alone last year.

One of the world's largest makers of the painkiller oxycodone has agreed to pay $ 35 million to settle a federal investigation into allegations of suspicious orders of the drug that's part of a nationwide opioid epidemic.

The opioid epidemic has turned librarians into emergency medical workers and prompted a debate over whether they should administer the anti-overdose drug naloxone.

The already short - staffed Onondaga County Medical Examiner's Office is losing another forensic pathologist at a time when its caseload of autopsies fueled by the opioid drug overdose epidemic is soaring, and plans to use more contract pathologists from New York City.

«Fentanyl abuse is feeding this nation's devastating opioid epidemic that destroys lives and families, and we are taking aggressive action to get these deadly drugs off our streets and protect communities across New York,» Governor Cuomo said.

Katko said he believes the border needs to be secured to help diminish the flow of drugs at a time when the nation faces a heroin and opioid epidemic.

«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.

Republican mayoral candidate Paul Massey visited a Staten Island drug treatment facility this afternoon, outlining his proposed plan to address the opioid epidemic in a post-visit press conference.

These staff will monitor the use and distribution of narcan, manage an ever growing network of prescription drug drop - off kiosks, and coordinate the activities and projects of the opioid epidemic task force.

-- 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.

At 11 a.m., Assemblyman Michael Cusick, Sen. Andrew Lanza, Staten Island DA Michael McMahon, and representatives from the NYPD, Delco Drugs, and YMCA Counseling Services announce the donation of 10,000 drug deactivation pouches to combat the ongoing heroin and opioid abuse epidemic, Delco Drugs, 3833 Richmond Ave., Staten Island.

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.

Also at 1 p.m., Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney joins Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler, local police chiefs and community leaders to call for passage of Maloney's legislation to combat the opioid and heroin epidemic and stop mass incarceration of abusers and low - level drug offenders, Orange County District Attorney's office, 40 Matthews St., Goshen.

The Erie County Legislature approved a $ 1.67 billion budget for next year that slightly reduces the property tax rate for the second year in a row and focuses more attention on the heroin and opioid epidemic that is contributing to the rising drug death toll in Erie County.

In its release this month of the 2016 National Drug Threat Assessment, the DEA noted that the opioid epidemic has been exacerbated by the reemergence of illegal versions of fentanyl manufactured in foreign countries and then smuggled into the U.S.

Erie County Attorney Michael Siragusa said he has been working with an outside law firm since November to craft a suit holding drug manufacturers accountable for the painful toll the opioid and heroin epidemic has had on the region.

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

(WBEN) Buffalo Police are investigating a case where a drug suspect already up on charges was helping police with a public service video on the opioid epidemic, and allegedly went off script and took drugs with them nearby.

She is also a member of Erie County's Opioid Epidemic Task Force, and the Hamburg Community Drug Free Coalition.

The nation's largest pharmacy benefit manager, Express Scripts, will soon limit the number and strength of opioid drugs prescribed to first - time users as part of a wide - ranging effort to curb an epidemic affecting millions of Americans.

President Trump said the nation's opioid epidemic — which is killing more than 100 people each day — is the «worst drug crisis in American history» and declared it a public health emergency, pledging the nation's full resolve in overcoming it.

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Republicans in the state Senate huddled for hours in private at the Capitol Thursday afternoon, emerging to say little, other than that a tax on prescription drug manufacturers in order to combat the opioid epidemic remains on the negotiating table.

Democratic Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney was in Dutchess County Monday, reintroducing his bill to combat the heroin and opioid epidemic by creating pre-booking drug diversion programs.

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.