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washingtonpost.com: FDA ramps up warnings about kratom, calling unregulated herb an 'opioid'
Posted 2/8/2018
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday intensified its warnings about kratom, saying new research provides strong evidence that the unregulated botanical substance has “opioid properties” and is associated with 44 deaths.
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pressofatlanticcity.com: Atlantic County drug prevention advocates partner with pharmacists for safe drug disposal
Posted 2/5/2018
Addiction prevention advocates are teaming with local pharmacists this month to better educate customers and patients on how to dispose medications, especially opioid prescriptions.
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wcpo.com: These myths about drugs and addiction are making the opioid epidemic worse
Posted 2/5/2018
Stories of so-called Narcan parties, for example, are circulating on social media and in some news media -- alleging groups of drug users are convening to get high and overdose together while an onlooker waits to revive them with Narcan.
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washingtonpost.com: A town of 3,200 was flooded with nearly 21 million pain pills as addiction crisis worsened, lawmakers say
Posted 2/5/2018
Over the past decade, nearly 21 million prescription painkillers have been shipped to a tiny town in West Virginia, a state where more people have overdosed on opioids and died than in any other in the nation.
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drugstorenews.com - Turning the tide: Retail pharmacy grapples with the opioid epidemic
Posted 2/5/2018
The opioid crisis is one staggering statistic after another. Opioid-related deaths — including those due to prescription opioids, heroin and fentanyl — have more than quadrupled since 1999, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention logging 42,000 opioid-related fatalities in 2016. That year, 40% of all opioid overdose deaths — about 17,000 — involved prescription opioids.
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app.com - NJ addiction: State's record on battling opioid epidemic
Posted 1/31/2018
In 2017, New Jersey took some big steps to battle the opioid crisis. The New Jersey Legislature in February restricted the initial prescriptions for opioids to five pills, the toughest limit in the nation. The National Institute on Drug Abuse earlier had called such prescription limits the most important way to bring the epidemic under control.
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usatoday.com: States curb pain pill prescribing to try to prevent opioid addiction
Posted 1/31/2018
CINCINNATI — Every morning Berthena Vance kisses the urn. It has been six months since her son, Brandon Greene, died from a suspected overdose. His mother cries frequently. And inconsolably.
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statnews.com: Follow the evidence to treat opioid addiction
Posted 1/31/2018
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that more than 63,600 people died from drug overdoses in 2016 (the last year with complete statistics); more than two-thirds of those were due to opioids. It was the worst year on record — and even more families lost loved ones to opioids in 2017.
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cnbc.com: Trump talks tough in State of the Union to end opioid crisis, but high schools get tougher
Posted 1/31/2018
Democratic lawmakers wore purple ribbons at Tuesday's State of the Union in an effort to raise awareness about America's opioid epidemic, but in the end President Donald Trump spent less than a minute talking about what is now the deadliest drug overdose crisis in the country's history, which claims 174 deaths per day, seven per hour.
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usatoday.com: With 175 Americans dying a day, what are the solutions to the opioid epidemic?
Posted 1/29/2018
More than 175 Americans will die today of drug overdoses. The daily death toll from drug overdoses is like a 737 crashing and killing all the passengers on board. If plane crashes like that happened a few days in a row, “we’d shut the skies down until we figured out the problem,” said former Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore.