Sentences with phrase «overdose than a heroin»

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More than 64,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, mainly from prescription painkillers and heroin, in 2016.

Deaths resulting from heroin overdoses have more than tripled since 2010, The New York Times reported last month.

Or Amphastar Pharmaceuticals CEO Jack Y. Zhang, who hoisted the price of naloxone, used in cases of heroin overdoses, to more than $ 400 a pop.

Tuskey said those programs are part of the reason heroin overdose deaths were down more than 30 percent in 2013, the first time the county saw a drop in overdose deaths since the coroner began tracking them in 1999.

No link has been established between the overdoses in the Garfield Park neighborhood and doses of fentanyl - laced heroin that have led to more than 185 deaths in Cook County since April 2005, police said.

In the Bronx, which lost more residents to drug overdoses last year than any other New York City borough, the heroin epidemic has latched on to a vulnerable population.

A heroin crisis gripping communities across the country deepened in New York last year, with more people in the city dying in overdoses from the drug than in any year since 2003.

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.

Overdose deaths from opioids, including prescription opioids and heroin, have more than quadrupled since 1999, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In Erie County, deaths from heroin or opioid overdoses more than doubled between 2014 and 2015, according to the Erie County Health Department.

Heroin use is a rapidly escalating problem, with more overdoses being reported than ever before, from all across Dutchess County.

So far, more than 60 residents and about 500 police officers have been trained and given the tools needed to respond to an overdose of heroin or prescription painkillers.

The letter is designed to keep insurers from placing arbitrary limits on the number of naloxone doses that are covered since fentanyl can be up to 50 times more powerful than heroin and it can take multiple doses of naloxone to reverse a fentanyl overdose, Cuomo aides said.

Prescription overdoses are now responsible for killing more Americans than cocaine and heroin combined, and have moved past traffic accidents as the leading cause of death nationwide, according to Shimsky.

Last month, the Erie County Health Department confirmed that the number of opioid and heroin overdose deaths in 2015 was more than double the number of the previous year.

«The results of our final toxicology reports for overdoses that occurred in 2013 show that the rate of fatal heroin overdoses rose more than preliminary figures indicated.

National figures show that far more people are dying of synthetic opiate overdoses than are dying from overdoses related to heroin, cocaine or meth.

The Office of National Drug Control Policy reports that prescription drug overdoses have killed more people than crack and heroin combined did in the 1970s and 1980s.

In the U.S., fatal heroin overdoses have increased in the past decade by 300 percent, with fentanyl — a substance that is 20 to 50 times more potent than heroin — and its analogs increasingly contributing to overdoses.

The drug often is implicated in clusters of overdose deaths when it is mixed with heroin and users do not realize what they are taking is more powerful than usual.

With deaths due to prescription opiates and heroin overdoses skyrocketing — the US figure has quadrupled since 1999, to more than 16,000 in 2010 — legislators are taking heed.

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.

Nationwide, the number of deaths due to drugs more than doubled between 2002 to 2015, including a six-fold increase in deaths due to overdose of heroin and illicit opiods.

The study calculated that not eating enough nuts and seeds was the third - leading dietary risk factor for death and disability in the world, killing more people than processed meat consumption, and potentially leading to the deaths of 15 times more people than all those who die from overdoses of heroin, crack cocaine, and all other illicit drugs combined.

(In French, English and Russian with subtitles) Jean - Michel Basquait: The Radiant Child (Unrated) «Better to Flameout Than to Fade Away» bio-pic recounting the meteoric rise and untimely demise of Basquait (1960 - 1988), the Brooklyn - born, black graffiti scofflawt - turned - legit fine art phenom whose promise future was consumed by the heroin overdose which claimed his life at the age of 27.

Because he was making way more money than any of his hangers - on, he got a swelled head and decided to serve as the fulcrum of a non-stop, substance - abusing party which eventually culminated with a heroin overdose in his studio at the age of 27.

Unfortunately, not everyone will get the treatment they need and in 2013 alone, more than 8,200 people died due to a heroin overdose.

During his short career (Thompson died of a heroin overdose in 1967, at the age of 29), Thompson painted more than 1,000 canvases of scenes populated with figures of all hues that were deeply influenced by Renaissance and Baroque painting and the 1950s movement of post-Beatnik and bebop - inflicted Abstract Expressionism.