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Drug overdose deaths skyrocketed in 2016 — and traditional opioid painkillers weren’t the cause

The federal government just put out new statistics for drug overdose deaths in 2016 — and they are very, very grim. The preliminary figures from the National Center for Health Statistics...

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The Latest Jaw-Dropping Numbers From the Opioid Crisis

About 64,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year—a staggering 22 percent increase from the 52,404 in 2015—according to the first government estimate of drug deaths in 2016. Overdoses now kill...

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Substance abuse rarely starts with opiate use on its own | Opinion

This spring I was asked by our middle school nurse to sign off on an order for the opioid blocker known as Naloxone to be kept in the school...

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Trump Can Save Lives by Stopping Illegal Opioids at Their Source

Donald Trump last week announced he would declare the opioid crisis a national emergency, as his Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis recommended late last month....

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Getting the Opioid Epidemic Right

The numbers are staggering. Until about a month ago, we had thought drug overdoses were responsible for some 52,000 American lives in 2015. Now the most recent reporting reveals that number...

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The Opioid Crisis Is Dire. Why We Need a National Conversation About It Separate From Obamacare.

Whatever the merits or demerits of the recently released Senate version of the GOP health care bill, some have suggested that it should put more funding into treating opioid...

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Opioid Addiction Is a Huge Problem, but Pain Prescriptions Are Not the Cause

Both the FDA and the CDC have recently taken steps to address an epidemic of opioid overdose and addiction, which is now killing some 29,000 Americans each year. But these...

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American Carnage: The New Landscape of Opioid Addiction, Christopher Caldwell

“We should all be dead,” said Jonathan Goyer one bright morning in January as he looked across a room filled with dozens of his coworkers and clients. The Anchor...

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Inside a Killer Drug Epidemic: A Look at America’s Opioid Crisis

Opioid addiction is America’s 50-state epidemic. It courses along Interstate highways in the form of cheap smuggled heroin, and flows out of “pill mill” clinics where pain medicine is...

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Sen. Rubio Introduces Bill to Stop Illegal Opioid Imports Into the U.S.

“U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and other lawmakers Tuesday introduced the newest version of the Synthetics Trafficking & Overdose Prevention, or STOP, Act as part of effort to restrict the...

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