Tag: drug overdoses
Study Reveals More Kids Overdosing on ADHD Drugs
A study on the number of United States poison control centers reports of pediatric ADHD exposures was published by the American Academy of Pediatrics...
Chris Christie Blames Fentanyl Problem on China
On Tuesday, November 28, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, the head of the White House’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis,...
California Now Has Seventh Lowest Overdose Rate in the Country
Although California is one of the states with the lowest opioid abuse, the epidemic is still killing thousands of people. While in West Virginia--the...
Opioid addiction: Saving a son or daughter from a fatal overdose
Parenting becomes more challenging when a son or daughter becomes addicted to drugs, and with opioid addiction reaching epidemic consequences, preventing a fatal overdose...
Overdoses killed almost two people a day in Minnesota last year
New data revealed that an average of two people died a day from drug overdoses in Minnesota in 2016. The figures, released by the Minnesota...
Opioid epidemic is killing more than government shows
As the opioid epidemic officially reaches a ‘national emergency’ status, federal data shows that heroin and other opioids have been increasingly deadly — now,...
A new killer in the Peach State: ‘Gray Death’
A new toxic substance that resembles concrete mixing powder and is being referred to as ‘gray death’ was recently linked to several deaths in...
Rash of overdoses continue across the US
More than 50,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in the past year, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “This...
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