HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Jan. 16, 2017 (HealthDay News) — Children exposed to addictive drugs in the womb may be more likely to…
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HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Dec. 21, 2016 (HealthDay News) — People trying to kick addiction to heroin or prescription painkillers often wait weeks…
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Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD Dec. 20, 2016Â — The front line in the epidemic of drug overdoses in the U.S. has shifted…
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HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Dec. 15, 2016 (HealthDay News) — Hospital admissions related to overdoses from heroin and other opioids rose 64 percent…
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HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Dec. 12, 2016 (HealthDay News) — Rural U.S. communities are seeing a surge in infants experiencing opioid withdrawal at…
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Nov. 10, 2016 — The U.S. government announced Thursday that it will ban a deadly synthetic opioid drug called Pink. The drug,…
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HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Oct. 31, 2016 (HealthDay News) — The number of young children and teens hospitalized for overdosing on opioid painkillers…
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WEDNESDAY, June 22, 2016 (HealthDay News) — U.S. laws designed to curb abuse of opioid painkillers haven’t reduced misuse or overdoses by disabled Medicare beneficiaries, a new study suggests. Between 2006 and 2012, states enacted 81 laws to control use of powerful opioids such as Oxycontin and Vicodin. But even with these new prescription-drug monitoring […]