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Opiates
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U.S. Teen Drug Overdose Deaths Inch Up After Years of Decline
NEW YORK (AP) — After years of decline, teen deaths from drug overdoses have inched up, a new…
August 16, 2017
Police Try Out New Database for Documenting Opioid Overdoses
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Police in Massachusetts are testing a new database for documenting opioid overdoses they hope…
August 15, 2017
Feds to Study Curbing Opioid Epidemic with Medical Pot
The underbelly of the capitalist beast that is the United States government is working to get to the…
August 14, 2017
Trump to Declare Opioid Crisis a ‘National Emergency’
BEDMINSTER, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will officially declare the opioid crisis a…
August 11, 2017
New Hampshire is Latest State to Sue OxyContin Manufacturer
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The attorney general’s office sued Purdue Pharma on Tuesday, alleging that the drug manufacturer…
August 10, 2017
Opioid Deaths Continue to Increase
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reports that deaths from drug overdoses continue to increase, from 16.7…
August 10, 2017
Underground Safe Haven for Heroin Injection Has Been Operating in the U.S. for Years
None were known to exist in the United States until a recent report in the American Journal of…
August 9, 2017
Report: Doctors Who Graduated from Harvard Prescribe Fewer Opioids
Physicians who studied medicine at Ivy League schools are less likely to prescribe opioid medications, according to a…
August 9, 2017
Justice Department to Dispatch Opioid Fraud and Abuse Units to 12 States
Only days after the president’s opioid commission issued its preliminary report, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that a…
August 3, 2017
Opioid Commission Ignores Nearly 8,000 Comments about Pot
The president’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, led by Chris Christie, issued a preliminary report,…
August 2, 2017