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More Than 100 Billion Doses of Opioid Pills Were Shipped Between 2006 and 2014
Posted 1/16/2020
Data collected by the Drug Enforcement Administration shows more than 100 billion doses of oxycodone and hydrocodone were shipped nationwide between 2006 and 2014, The Washington Post reports.
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washingtonpost.com: ‘It only took one pill’: How addiction starts
Posted 12/26/2019
The road to Paul Little’s addiction began during a hard day at work. He took one pill to ease a headache, which turned into nine-month habit. “I got up to 20 to 30 Percocets a day,” the former Air Force doctor said. “I was eating them like M&Ms.” Kathy Thomas took opioids for two years until a doctor told her she was being unnecessarily medicated. She still lives with the psychological consequences.
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nj.com: Doctor admits taking payoffs from drug maker to prescribe powerful opioid
Posted 11/23/2019
A doctor who practiced in New Jersey and Pennsylvania pleaded guilty Friday for scheming to take more than $140,000 in bribes and kickbacks from a pharmaceutical company in return for prescribing a powerful opioid painkiller.
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cincinnati.com: 1 of 4 US youths hurt in sports gets opioids at the ER, CDC report says
Posted 11/19/2019
When an American child age 5 to 9 goes to the emergency room for a sports- or recreation-related injury, roughly one in eight (or 13%) gets a prescription for opioids. Older children and young adults are even more likely to get such drugs.
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cbsnews.com: Cigarette smoking among adults hits all-time low in United States
Posted 11/18/2019
Cigarette smoking dropped to an all-time low among American adults in 2018, according to a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report released Thursday. According to the report, 13.7% of U.S. adults smoked a cigarette in 2018.
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time.com: Vaping May Be Worse for Heart Health Than Tobacco Cigarettes, New Study Finds
Posted 11/13/2019
E-cigarettes may be more harmful to a smoker’s heart than traditional tobacco cigarettes. That’s the finding of new research from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, presented today (Nov. 11) at an American Heart Association scientific conference.
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pharmalive.com: Michigan boy, 17, gets double lung transplant after damage from vaping
Posted 11/12/2019
(Reuters) – A 17-year-old Michigan boy facing “imminent death” from vaping injuries has undergone a double lung transplant, the first in a patient suffering from the effects of e-cigarettes, a Detroit hospital said on Tuesday.
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washingtonpost.com: Deep brain stimulation is being tested to treat opioid addiction
Posted 11/11/2019
A surgeon has implanted electrodes in the brain of a patient suffering from severe opioid use disorder, hoping to cure the man’s intractable craving for drugs in the first such procedure performed in the United States.
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washingtonpost.com - CDC: Most people who died from vaping-linked disease used products containing THC
Posted 10/25/2019
Most people who died from vaping-related injuries used products containing THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, federal health officials said Friday, offering another data point tying the outbreak of lung illnesses to products made with that compound.
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nytimes.com: E-Cigarettes Went Unchecked in 10 Years of Federal Inaction
Posted 10/15/2019
A decade after Congress gave the F.D.A. the power to regulate tobacco products like e-cigarettes, the federal government has repeatedly delayed or weakened efforts that could have protected teenagers.