Sentences with phrase «opioid overdoses at»

Over the past decade and a half, McDowell has lost people to prescription opioid overdoses at a higher rate than any other county in America but one (its neighbor, Wyoming County).

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (Reuters)- Nine students from the University of California, Santa Barbara suffered an apparent mass overdose of prescription opioids at a party and were taken to a local hospital, police said on Friday.

In the three years since, the number of overdose deaths involving fentanyl has skyrocketed at a rate that outpaces deaths from any other opioid, including heroin, hydrocodone, and oxycodone.

One in five inmates at the Hennepin County jail last December self - reported a history of opioid use or abuse; an «astonishing» number said they'd overdosed, Sheriff Rich Stanek said Tuesday.

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.

At a news conference at Greece Town Hall, County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo said in the first half of 2016, the medical examiner's office reported 97 overdose fatalities directly attributable to the use of heroin, opioids and other related substanceAt a news conference at Greece Town Hall, County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo said in the first half of 2016, the medical examiner's office reported 97 overdose fatalities directly attributable to the use of heroin, opioids and other related substanceat Greece Town Hall, County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo said in the first half of 2016, the medical examiner's office reported 97 overdose fatalities directly attributable to the use of heroin, opioids and other related substances.

Heroin and opioid - related deaths in New York are at a record high, with overdose deaths in the state rising faster over the past decade than in nearly all other states, a new report by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office found.

Also at 6 p.m., state Sen. David Carlucci hosts a free training on how to administer Naloxone, a medication used to block the effects of an opioid overdose, Pearl River Library, 80 Franklin Ave., Pearl River.

At least 21 people died of suspected opioid overdoses in the past 10 days, perhaps caused by a powerful drug similar to fentanyl, County Executive Mark Poloncarz said.

At a time when fatal heroin and opioid overdoses have risen to unprecedented rates — 10 suspected opiate overdose deaths a week in Erie County — many area families complain that health care insurers are denying coverage for loved ones seeking medication and inpatient treatment for their addictions.

At 11 a.m., the Assembly Committee on Health, Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, and Committee on Insurance hold a public hearing on access to opioid overdose reversal drugs, 250 Broadway, 19th floor, Assembly Hearing Room, Manhattan.

For anyone who is unable to afford the insurance co-pay or the cost of naloxone, naloxone may be accessed free of charge at community - based opioid overdose prevention programs.

The Health Department strongly encourages individuals who are likely to witness an opioid overdose, including individuals at risk for opioid overdose themselves as well as their friends and family members, to learn more about overdose prevention and obtain naloxone.

PolitifactNY (in other words, Dan Clark) debunks Cuomo's claim that we are «losing as many people to heroin and opioid overdoses as we lost to the AIDS epidemic at its peak.»

In the lawsuit, Oswego County says it lost at least 67 residents to opioid - related overdoses between 2009 and 2014.

Mayor de Blasio has also invested in numerous initiatives to support our DAs» essential efforts — including an additional $ 2 million per year to the Special Narcotics Prosecutor and $ 10 million to the Anti-Violence Innovation challenge — and launched expansive initiatives aimed at reducing opioid misuse and overdose deaths across the City, in close partnership with local elected officials.»

Among their priorities: local funding support to combat opioid drug addiction, state lobbying for tougher laws against drug dealers, greater education and outreach regarding drug addiction and prevention, and better assessment tools for health professionals and first responders to help those at risk of becoming addicts and those in danger of repeat overdoses.

For more information and to register ahead of time, contact Marissa Lamphere, MST - Health Department, Opioid Overdose Prevention Coordinator, at [phone] or [email protected].

We can not stand still while deaths from fatal opioid overdoses continue to rise at an accelerating rate.

In December alone, Erie County reported at least 42 suspected opioid overdose deaths.

JAMESTOWN — The Chautauqua County Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is sponsoring another free opioid overdose response (Narcan) training session today at 4 p.m. at Chautauqua Alcoholism & Substance Abuse Council (CASAC), 501 West Third St., Suites 3 and 4, Springhorn Building, in Jamestown.

Surgeon General Jerome Adams is issuing a rare public health advisory on Thursday, calling for friends and family of people at risk for opioid overdoses to carry the OD - reversal medication naloxone.

In the advisory, Adams identified several groups of people at elevated risk of overdoses, including people who misuse prescription opioids, those who use drugs like heroin and illicitly manufactured fentanyl, and those who have recently left treatment programs or incarceration.

«At this time, when prescription opioid use and opioid overdoses are both major threats to our public health, it is important to identify new treatment targets, such as epigenetic processes, that help to change the way that we do business in treating opioid use disorders,» said professor John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry.

«Canada is second in the world only to the U.S. in our rates of prescription opioid use, and the rise of prescription opioids in our provinces has also shown to be strongly linked to overdose deaths,» cautions Dr. Rehm, who is also Head of the World Health Organization / Pan-American Health Organization (WHO / PAHO) Collaborating Centre in Addiction and Mental Health at CAMH.

Maureen Boyle, chief of the Science Policy Branch of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Edward Bilsky, a professor of pharmacology and the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Neurosciences at the University of New England, showed how opioids can commandeer the brain's natural systems that control pain and reward, and trigger a vicious response cycle that can diminish the pain - relieving power of medications, prompt users to reach for increasingly larger quantities of opioids and lead to deadly overdoses.

The increase is likely due to rising numbers of overdose deaths from opioids (SN: 6/10/17, p. 22), says Christine Durand, a transplant infectious disease specialist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Such education should involve mandating pain - related education for all health professionals who provide care to people with pain, requiring and providing basic training in the treatment of opioid use disorder for health care providers, and training prescribers and pharmacists to recognize and counsel patients who are at risk for opioid use disorder or overdose.

Veterans prescribed higher doses of benzodiazepines while concurrently receiving opioids were at greater risk of overdose death than those on lower doses of benzodiazepines.

Patient records of veterans who died from drug overdoses while receiving medical services as an outpatient at the VHA between October 2004 and September 2009 were examined for the relationship between the opioids and benzodiazepines when prescribed concurrently.

And, at two years of follow - up, patients who continued taking high dosages of opioids were twice as likely to have another overdose compared to those who discontinued opioid use after their initial overdose.

The findings, published online ahead of print in the Annals of Internal Medicine, highlight the challenges faced by physicians to balance the known risks with potential benefits of prescription opioids for patients with chronic pain and reinforces the importance of developing tools that will help better identify and treat patients at risk for opioid use disorders and / or overdose.

«SAMHSA's Opioid Overdose Toolkit is the first federal resource to provide safety and prevention information for those at risk for overdose and for their loved ones,» said co-author and SAMHSA Administrator Pamela S. Hyde, J.D. «It also gives local governments the information they need to develop policies and practices to help prevent and respond appropriately to opioid - related overdose.&Opioid Overdose Toolkit is the first federal resource to provide safety and prevention information for those at risk for overdose and for their loved ones,» said co-author and SAMHSA Administrator Pamela S. Hyde, J.D. «It also gives local governments the information they need to develop policies and practices to help prevent and respond appropriately to opioid - related overdoseOverdose Toolkit is the first federal resource to provide safety and prevention information for those at risk for overdose and for their loved ones,» said co-author and SAMHSA Administrator Pamela S. Hyde, J.D. «It also gives local governments the information they need to develop policies and practices to help prevent and respond appropriately to opioid - related overdoseoverdose and for their loved ones,» said co-author and SAMHSA Administrator Pamela S. Hyde, J.D. «It also gives local governments the information they need to develop policies and practices to help prevent and respond appropriately to opioid - related overdose.&opioid - related overdoseoverdose.»

A new multi-institutional study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine and led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, examined the rate of deaths caused by opioid overdoses between 1999 and 2010.

«Appropriate access to medication - assisted therapies under Medicaid is a key piece of the strategy to address the rising rate of death from overdoses of prescription opioids,» said co-author Stephen Cha, M.D., M.H.S., chief medical officer for the Center for Medicaid and CHIP [Children's Health Insurance Program] Services at CMS.

If climatologists» warnings are correct, a changing climate could produce more extreme weather patterns, which could then have an effect on opioid overdoses and deaths, said Goetz, who worked with Meri Davlasheridze, assistant professor in marine sciences, Texas A&M at Galveston.

«The high degree of involvement in the lives of an opioid user among attendees is consistent with reported motivations to have a kit in the house for a greater sense of security and improved confidence to handle an overdose,» explained lead author Sarah Bagley, MD, from the Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit at BUSM and BMC and a physician in General Internal Medicine at BMC.

In 2009, Project ASSERT, with support from Boston Public Health Commission and Massachusetts Department of Public Health, also began offering overdose prevention education and naloxone rescue kits to emergency department patients at risk for opioid overdose.

«This study confirms that the emergency department provides a promising opportunity for opioid overdose harm reduction measures through overdose education and naloxone rescue kit distribution,» explained lead author Kristin Dwyer, MD, emergency physician at BMC.

The survey also indicates that while opioid overdose rates remain high among adults, teens are misusing opioid pain medications less frequently than a decade ago, and are at historic lows with some of the commonly used pain medications.

These anecdotes inspired a research team led by Marcus Bachhuber, assistant professor of medicine at the Montefiore Medical Center in New York City, to examine whether some states» legalization of medical cannabis had affected the number of opioid overdose deaths.

Prolonged use of these opioids can result in respiratory depression, tolerance, addiction, and overdose,» says senior study author Nathaniel Jeske of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

Both are among the prescription opioids that alleviate the pain of millions of Americans every year — often at the price of their needing ever greater amounts and the risk of overdose.

The evidence appeared to show similar effectiveness between the intramuscular and intranasal delivery for heroin or prescription opioid overdose, but the intranasal naloxone studied was at a concentration different than the FDA - approved nasal formulation.

«It will be hard to address the addiction and overdose crisis without better understanding and addressing the neurobiology linking opioids, pain and social connectedness,» says Sarah Wakeman, medical director of the Substance Use Disorder Initiative at Massachusetts General Hospital and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

«It is important that anyone who may be around someone at risk for an opioid overdose have access to naloxone.»

Opioids may stop the pain, but at a high price: growing numbers of deaths due to opioid overdose and higher rates of addiction and misuse.

Clinicians should review the patient's history of controlled substance prescriptions using state prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) data to determine whether the patient is receiving opioid dosages or dangerous combinations that put him or her at high risk for overdose.

The Public Health Agency of Canada has estimated that at least 2,458 Canadians died from an opioid - related overdose in 2016, which amounts to almost seven deaths every day.

Richard Ausness, a professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law, who has written extensively about the opioid litigation, said the growing problem of overdose deaths and the publicity surrounding them may put pressure on state and local officials to initiate or join opioid lawsuits.