A recently enacted New York law aims to ensure that naloxone is available if needed by people who take prescription opioids.
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Drinking alcohol with some medicines means that the medicine may not work as effectively. But you also run the risk of a potentially fatal overdose.
MONDAY, Jan. 9, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- People who use medical marijuana to treat their chronic pain tend to cut their use of opioids and other painkillers, but the trend may also have a downside, a new survey shows.
MONDAY, Jan. 9, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- One low-cost intervention could make a difference in America's epidemic of opioid overdoses, a new study suggests.
An area man faces manslaughter and evidence tampering charges related to the death of a Park Hills woman whose body was found in a wooded area…
Pelé, the Brazilian king of soccer, has died at age 82. Plus the death of Tyler Sanders, a teen actor known for "9-1-1 Lone Star", was ruled an accidental fentanyl overdose. Get that and more top news here.
LOS ANGELES — The death of Tyler Sanders, a teen actor known for roles in "The Rookie" and "Fear the Walking Dead," was ruled an accidental fentanyl overdose, officials said Thursday. Sanders died this past June in his Glendale apartment at the age of 18. On June 16, a friend found Sanders unresponsive inside his locked apartment and called 911, a Los Angeles County Medical-Examiner Coroner's ...
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- When a toddler or an infant accidentally ingests a prescription opioid medication, the immediate results can prove deadly, experts warn.
As the U.S. deals with its deadliest overdose crisis to date, a national crime-prevention group is calling on the Justice Department to clamp down on social media’s role in the spread of fentanyl, the drug largely driving a troubling spike in overdose deaths among teenagers.
Life Expectancy in the US, Continued to Drop , in 2021. The CDC's National Center for Health Statistics' reports were published early on Decem…
THURSDAY, Dec. 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The average American's expected life span at birth took another big hit in 2021, according to final data on death rates for that pandemic year.
TUESDAY, Dec. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Deaths of teens from drug overdoses soared starting in late 2019, and though they appear to be on the decline, they remain much higher than in 2019, U.S. health officials report.
MONDAY, Dec. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- From July to December 2019 to July to December 2021, there was an increase in overdose deaths and deaths involving illicitly manufactured fentanyls (IMFs), according to research published in the Dec. 16 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
THURSDAY, Dec. 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- More than two years after the pandemic began, there is a bit of good news on death rates in the United States: They should be lower this year than during the past two years once final numbers are tallied. Still, they have not dropped to levels seen before COVID-19 swept across the country, preliminary data show.
Police released body camera video of an officer's reaction after being exposed to fentanyl on the job. The officer is expected to recover.
THURSDAY, Dec. 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) – More than two years after the pandemic began, there is a bit of good news on death rates in the United States: They should be lower this year than during the past two years once final numbers are tallied.
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Preliminary data indicates 2022 will see fewer deaths than the previous two COVID-19 pandemic years; current reports suggest deaths may be down about 3% from 2020 and about 7% from 2021.
THURSDAY, Dec. 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Discontinuing prescribed opioids in people with chronic pain is associated with increased overdose risk, according to a study published online Dec. 1 in PLOS Medicine.
TUESDAY, Dec. 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Overdose mortality among pregnant and postpartum women increased between 2017 and 2020, with a more pronounced increase observed in 2020, according to a research letter published in the Dec. 6 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
TUESDAY, Dec. 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Pregnant and postpartum women are dying of drug overdoses in record numbers, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only made things worse, a new study shows.
MONDAY, Dec. 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- American kids are drinking to excess less and abusing marijuana more, a new study finds.
Near Los Angeles, 10 students overdosed on cannabis at a local middle school. At least six of the kids, between 12 and 14-years-old, went to t…
Ten Los Angeles students appear to have overdosed on edible cannabis products at their middle school in the San Fernando Valley.
Frank Vallelonga Jr. has been found dead outside a building in New York, and police have arrested a man on charges of concealment of a human corpse.
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- From 2000 to 2020, there was an increase in the age-adjusted rates of drug overdose deaths for adults aged 65 years and older, according to a November data brief published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics.