Tag: opioid epidemic
‘It’s a lonely disease’
Michelle Bills spent the last three decades in the mountains of Salt Lake City, Utah, raising her three children – Tyler, Austin, and McCall....
Maine expands medication-assisted treatment capacity with $2.4M in funding
Earlier this week, Gov. Paul LePage of Maine announced that his administration will allocate $2.4 million in an effort to eliminate wait lists for...
Tech company partners with organization to prevent drug diversion
Solo Technology Holdings, LLC, developers of iKeyp, a smartphone-enabled safe designed to prevent the theft and abuse of prescription drugs, has teamed up with the...
Fentanyl-related deaths in Delaware soar 180 percent over three years
Deaths linked to the synthetic opioid fentanyl rose 180 percent between 2012 and 2015, and fentanyl-related deaths this year are up 114 percent over...
How Canadian pharmacists are treating opioid addiction
Provinces across Canada are struggling with opioid use. Drug overdose deaths in British Columbia hit an all-time high last month, with 128 deaths in a...
Recent study identifies ‘hot spots’ for prescription opioid poisonings
The rates of prescription opioid poisoning are concentrated in ‘hot spots,’ typically in rural areas, small towns, and suburban areas, according to a recent...
Fatal drug overdoses nearly tripled, new CDC data shows
Fatal drug overdoses nearly tripled between 1999 and 2014, according to the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report released today by the Centers for Disease...
As vets struggle with opioid abuse, VA responds with multi-pronged approach...
According to the National Center for PTSD, a branch of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), 27 percent of veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic...
Countries that make up 15 percent of the world’s population consume...
Countries composing 15 percent of the world’s population consumed in excess of 95 percent of the world’s opioid painkillers between 2011 and 2013, a...
Opioids claimed more lives than guns did in 2015
Opioid-related fatalities outnumbered gun-related deaths by nearly a margin of 3 to 1, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and...
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