HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Nov. 13, 2018 (HealthDay News) — People who overdose on opioids have one lifeline, the drug naloxone, but two…
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HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Nov. 7, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Surgery patients typically use only one-quarter of the opioids they’re prescribed for post-operative…
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HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Oct. 31, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Fentanyl, a powerful and dangerous synthetic opioid, is now showing up in crack…
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Knocking On Doors To Get Opioid Overdose Survivors Into Treatment
by Sarah McCammon October 24, 2018Enlarge this image Paramedic Larrecsa Cox (center) and her quick-response team, including police Officer Stephanie Coffey (left) and Pastor Virgil Johnson (right),…
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HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Sept. 20, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Life expectancy in the United States has declined for two years in a…
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HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Sept. 10, 2018 (HealthDay News) — The United States is in the grip of an epidemic of opioid painkiller…
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Sept. 10, 2018 — A surge in dangerous side effects and overdoses has put the spotlight on cannabinoid drugs that go by…
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HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Aug. 16, 2018 (HealthDay News) — The opioid epidemic may be a major reason for recent declines in Americans’…