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Visit www.combatheroin.ny.gov for more information on addressing heroin and prescription opioid abuse, including a Kitchen Table Tool Kit to help start the conversation about the warning signs of addiction and where to get help.

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.

They include tax on opioid prescription drugs, a highly speculative tax on health plans that convert from nonprofit to for - profit status, a tax on for - profit health insurers who will pay less in federal tax, a tax on «vaping» products and a sales tax on all internet purchases, no matter where the retailer is located.

Data show there are now two paths to heroin use where there had just been one: users either turn to heroin and fentanyl after opioid prescription drugs fail to satiate, or, more recently, users go straight to heroin, said Ciccarone.

While average life expectancy has been rising steadily in most countries over the past century, new research led by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows that life expectancy declined significantly and rapidly in three countries where policy changes increased access to prescription opioids, alcohol or illicit drugs.

In 2010, prescription opioids were the primary cause (60 %) of overdose deaths in the United States (where the drug was identified), compared to causing 30 % of overdoses in 1999.

Previous studies have reported that states where medical marijuana is legal have lower rates of medical and non-medical prescription drug use and related harms — including opioid overdose.

The growing availability of prescription opioids has increased risks for people undergoing treatment for pain and created an environment and marketplace of diversion, where people who are not seeking these medications for medical reasons abuse and sell the drugs because they can produce a high.

Doctors in states where marijuana is legal write fewer prescriptions for opioid painkillers, a 2016 study in Health Affairs showed.

The Trump administration said it will seek stiffer penalties against drug dealers — including the death penalty where appropriate under current law — and it wants the number of prescriptions for powerful painkillers to be cut by one - third nationwide as part of a broad effort to combat the opioid crisis.