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Business Health National 

New Medical Study Finds Racial Disparities in Opioid Crisis

February 11, 2019February 11, 2019 DAVID REESE
opioids, overdose, pharmaceuticals

While drug epidemics in the United States tend to affect non-whites, the opioid crisis in America has targeted largely low-income white populations, according to a new study released Monday by the American Medical Association.

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Health 

Report: Big Pharma Money to Doctors Led to Spike in Opioid Deaths

January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 DAVID REESE
advertising, opioids, overdose, pharmaceuticals

(CN) – As the U.S. opioid epidemic peaked in 2015, so did the amount of money spent to market prescription

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Courts Entertainment Law 

Prince’s Family Sues Doctor Who Prescribed Opioids

August 24, 2018August 27, 2018 NATHAN SOLIS
celebrity, Medicine, Minnesota, overdose, pharmaceuticals, Prince

A wrongful death lawsuit was filed in Minnesota state court Friday against a doctor by the family of the late pop star Prince, who said he died two years ago of an overdose of the potent drug fentanyl because the doctor did not treat him for his opiate addiction.

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Government Health Regional 

Safe Injections

August 22, 2018August 22, 2018 BRIEF
Brief4, California, drugs, overdose

A bill to allow San Francisco to pilot a 3-year program to create safe injection sites to prevent overdoses from controlled substances has passed both chambers of the Legislature, and awaits Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature.

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Criminal Health Law 

Police Work to Stop Overdoses After 76 Fall Ill

August 16, 2018 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Connecticut, drugs, overdose

Police swarmed a Connecticut park near Yale University and searched people’s homes for drugs Thursday in an effort to prevent more overdoses from a batch of synthetic marijuana blamed for sending more than 70 people to the hospital.

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Health National 

US Still Consumes Huge Amount of Opioids, Despite Efforts

August 1, 2018August 6, 2018 MARTIN MACIAS JR
Death, Medicare, opioids, overdose, pharmaceuticals

Prescription opioid use has not declined over the last decade despite increased efforts to educate patients and doctors in order to prevent abuse, according to a study published Wednesday.

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Government Health Politics 

California Widens Access to Opioid Overdose Antidote

June 8, 2018June 11, 2018 NICHOLAS IOVINO
California, opioids, overdose, pharmaceuticals

California’s top public health official has issued a standing order to make the life-saving, anti-overdose drug naloxone available at pharmacies statewide without a prescription.

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Health National 

Drug Overdose Deaths Up 12 Percent Nationally

May 16, 2018May 22, 2018 MARTIN MACIAS JR
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, opioids, overdose

The number of people who died in the United States as result of overdosing on drugs – including illicit and prescription drugs – rose by 12 percent, though researchers say the number is likely higher, according to a new report released Wednesday.

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Latest Headlines 

Prosecutor Won’t Bring Charges for Prince’s Death

April 19, 2018April 19, 2018 DIONNE CORDELL-WHITNEY
celebrity, Medicine, Music, musicians, overdose, Prince, prosecutors

A Minnesota prosecutor said Thursday that he will not bring criminal charges in the overdose death of Prince, but a doctor accused of illegally prescribing the pop star an opioid has agreed to a $30,000 civil settlement.

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Health Regional 

West Virginia Records 872 Overdoses Last Year

March 9, 2018March 9, 2018 ASSOCIATED PRESS
drugs, overdose, West Virginia

West Virginia’s death toll from drug overdoses has improved slightly, with 872 deaths last year.

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Health Science 

Opioid Addiction Is Reducing US Life Expectancy

September 20, 2017September 20, 2017 DAVID REESE
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National1b, opioids, overdose, Research

Deaths from opioid overdoses tripled in the 15 years from 2000 to 2015, according to a study published Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control.

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Government Health Regional 

Report Paints Bleak Picture of Arizona’s Opioid Crisis

September 11, 2017September 11, 2017 SCOTT BUFFON
Arizona, opioids, overdose

For two months, health care providers and law enforcement in Arizona have been reporting drug overdose deaths to the state health department. Authorities now know more Arizonans die of drug overdoses than in car accidents, with opioids responsible for over half the overdose deaths.

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Civil Rights Criminal Health 

PA Officials Rapped on Overdose-Immunity Law

June 30, 2017June 30, 2017 GINA CARRANO
drugs, heroin, immunity, Law5, malicious prosecution, opioids, overdose, Pennsylvania, probable cause

Rushed to the hospital for a heroin overdose, a Pennsylvania woman claims in a federal complaint that officials flouted a year-old overdose-immunity law by trying to prosecute her.

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Civil Rights Criminal Regional 

Mother Blames Disgraced DA for Daughter’s Overdose

April 11, 2017September 28, 2018 Allen Johnson
drugs, Louisiana, overdose, racketeering, sex, Wrongful Death

Former St. Charles Parish District Attorney Harry Morel Jr. drove a young woman to her overdose death by extorting sexual favors from her in exchange for help with her legal problems, the woman’s mother claims in court.

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