Sentences with phrase «report drug overdoses»

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The New York Post is also reporting that Hoffman has died, describing it as «an apparent drug overdose.»

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.

The decision comes on the heels of a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics, an agency of the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, that shows the rate of estimated drug overdose deaths increased in the third quarter of 2016 and outpaced the rate of drug - related deaths over the same period in 2015.

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.

As Fortune reported in an in - depth report on the crisis in September, an American is now far likelier to die of a drug overdose than in a car crash.

There are a lot of serious issues in the United States, and the inclination to try to stay serious and talk about guns, trade, Medicaid, or drug overdoses rather than reports of the president's alleged past affairs with porn actresses and Playboy playmates is understandable and, on some level, laudable.

A report by drug policy think tank Volteface stated that 3,700 people died from things like infected syringes and accidental overdoses and recommended a trial of drug consumption rooms to provide a safe, clean and legal space for users.

«Lisa Belkin reported recently about the death of a blogger's son from a drug overdose.

The article focuses on the death rate for Americans under 50, and reports that car accidents, gun violence and drug overdoses were the top three contributors.

Florida lawmakers want more people to be able to report drug or alcohol overdoses without fear of retaliation.

ERIE COUNTY, NY — The Erie County Medical Examiner's office reports a recent increase over the past month in the number of suspected drug overdose deaths involving the drug fentanyl, either alone or in combination with other drugs such as heroin and cocaine.

Town Police Chief Sinagra reports there have been no cases of synthetic drug overdoses in the past year.

Overdose deaths spike in upstate NY New York has seen a significant increase in drug - related deaths over a recent six year period, officials report.

Dolapo Badmus, Zonal Police Public Relations Officer (Lagos / Ogun), has reacted to reports that DJ Olu and his friend died of drug overdose.

The Family of Chime Amaechi, who died in the same car alongside Davido's friend DJ Olu, has denied reports that their son died as a result of drug overdose.

Speaking to The net, the bereaved family said, reports that Chime died of drug overdose was false as he was not a drug user.

Drug overdose deaths rose at a rate nearly twice as fast in states that embraced Medicaid expansion, like New York, versus non-expansion states, according to the report.

The CDC also reports that drug overdoses were responsible for 37 percent of the deaths of Erie County residents between the ages of 15 and 44 - and numbers are expected to climb.

In countless cases, family members and friends — often other people using drugs — have reported using naloxone to save an overdose victim, and the idea is that if more people have naloxone on hand, more people could be saved.

«What's frightening about this emerging street drug is that users themselves may not be aware that they are ingesting it,» said lead study author John Stogner, Ph.D. of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, N.C. «A patient may report heroin use and have symptoms consistent with heroin overdose, but an emergency physician may find that the standard dose of antidote (naloxone) doesn't work.

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 19Drug Control Policy reports that prescription drug overdoses have killed more people than crack and heroin combined did in the 1970s and 19drug overdoses have killed more people than crack and heroin combined did in the 1970s and 1980s.

After the lawsuits were filed, Minyard amended the autopsy report, changing Miceli's cause of death from a drug overdose to asthma and labeling it a natural death.

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.

In tomorrow's issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers report the case of a woman who overdosed on chloroquine, a drug commonly used to fight the malaria parasite.

Stamp bag testing and monitoring should not replace other drug surveillance systems, such as overdose mortality data and toxicology reports, said Creppage, also an intern at the Allegheny County Office of the Medical Examiner.

According to a DEA Intelligence Report, York County had 118 drug - related overdose deaths in 2014, nearly double any neighboring county.

When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration screens new opioid drugs it should better anticipate how people might abuse them in the real world, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine warns in a major report issued Thursday on the country's opioid crisis, which kills 91 people a day — often via overdoses on prescription drugs.

He published a 10 - year review of drug deaths in Scotland which showed that the chances of newspapers reporting a death from an overdose of paracetamol (acetaminophen) was 1 in 250, a death from amphetamine was 1 in 3 and that every death from ecstasy was reported.

Benzodiazepine users also were at increased risk, with 31 percent of overdose deaths involving a drug like fentanyl in 2016 compared with less than 12 percent in 2010, according to the report.

Case of death is being reported as a drug overdose.

The Guardian reports that teen drug overdose rate in US rose 20 % in 2015 after years of decline.

The Institute of Medicine has reported that an estimated 380,000 to 450,000 accidental drug overdoses occur each year in U.S. hospitals.

In 2017, the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIH) reported that there were more than 64,000 reported overdoses with 20,000 of...

One example given in the report is using the fingerprint of an overdose victim to unlock their phone and potentially identify their drug dealer.

In his new report «One Nation Overdosed» MSNBC Correspondent Jacob Soboroff looks at how the drug fentanyl is flooding in the U.S. from the Internet.

Prescription drug overdoses in the US place a substantial burden on hospitals and the economy, according to a new study of emergency room visits reported on by the LA Times.

It has been reported the 31 - year - old, best known in his role as Finn Hudson on Glee, possibly died of a drug overdose.