Wave of Opioid Overdoses Expected to Hit U.S. Rural, Urban Areas
By Cara Murez HealthDay ReporterHealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, July 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Experts predict opioid overdoses will climb in both ...
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Tragic Teen Overdoses Revive Talks on Narcan in Schools
March 24, 2022 -- Raagini Jawa, MD, was a high schooler in a small New England town when she experienced ...
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As fentanyl overdoses rise, so does use of ‘party drug’ test strips
(HealthDay)—Potent and poisonous, the synthetic opioid known as fentanyl has infiltrated nearly every corner of the U.S. illegal street drug ...
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US teens lost around 200,000 years of life from accidental drug overdoses from 2015 to 2019
Young people in the US collectively lost around 1.2 million years of life from accidental drug overdoses from 2015 to ...
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Snapchat cracks down on drug dealing after fentanyl overdoses
Snapchat is cracking down on drug sales through its disappearing-photos app following reports of dealers using it to sling deadly ...
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Severe Opioid Overdoses Rose by Nearly a Third During Pandemic
By Robert PreidtHealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, July 30, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Opioid overdose-related visits to U.S. emergency departments rose by nearly ...
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Hearts from donors who died of drug overdoses ARE safe to use in transplant surgeries, studies find
Hearts donated by people who died of drug overdoses are safe to use in transplant surgeries, two new studies find. ...
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Pandemic fueled deadliest year for drug overdoses, CDC data shows
Nearly three-quarters of fatal overdoses were attributed to opioids, an increase from just over 70 percent in 2019 that was ...
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Opiate overdoses linked to poor mental health
A map of the contiguous United States shows the spatial distribution of relative risk for fatal overdoses from substance use ...
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Students’ innovative idea could help prevent fentanyl overdoses
A group of University of Alberta science students won $100,000 to help turn a brainstorming session about what could have ...
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