December 18, 2018 White House nominee for Drug Czar: Hope and healing amid the horrors of addiction this holiday season The most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tells us that in 2017, someone in the U.S. died of a drug overdose every seven minutes.
December 17, 2018 Vaping boom: Twice the amount of teens vaping than last year, survey finds It was the largest single-year increase in the survey's 44-year history.
December 14, 2018 Fentanyl now deadliest drug in America, meth overdoses growing, CDC says Fentanyl is now the deadliest drug in America, beating out heroin and oxycodone which had previously been involved in the most overdose fatalities between 2011 and 2016.
December 12, 2018 Tough new opioid policies leave some cancer and post-surgery patients without painkillers New federal and state hard lines on painkiller prescriptions are affecting even cancer patients and people fresh out of major surgeries.
December 12, 2018 Health experts offer solutions for unintended consequences of opioid crackdown The most urgently needed first step to addressing the misunderstandings about Centers for Disease and Prevention opioid prescribing guidelines, many clinicians and health experts say, is for the agency to clarify – in a high-profile way-- what the guidelines were meant, and not meant, to do.
December 11, 2018 Doctors caught between struggling opioid patients and crackdown on prescriptions Doctors are opting to stop prescribing legal opioids – even to people who are left bedridden without them -- as insurers, pharmacies, state medical boards and state and federal law enforcement authorities warn them about overstepping federal opioid prescribing guidelines (issued in 2016 by the Centers for Disease Control) and the regulatory or third-party limits that followed on the number of pills and daily dosage they can give patients. Some have stopped prescribing opioids after being faced with losing their medical license or getting arrested.
December 10, 2018 James Bond has a 'severe' drinking problem, researchers argue He’s blowing well over a 0.07.
December 10, 2018 As doctors taper or end opioid prescriptions, many patients driven to despair, suicide Doctors and medical establishments are sharply reducing doses of – or altogether no long prescribing -- pain medications, leaving many among the estimated 20 million Americans who suffer from daily debilitating chronic pain to consider ending their lives, and many others to kill themselves.
November 29, 2018 Overdoses, suicides push down US life expectancy Suicides and drug overdoses pushed up U.S. deaths last year, and drove a continuing decline in how long Americans are expected to live.
November 25, 2018 Man killed woman hours after his release from prison, authorities say A man who police suspect of killing a woman hours after he was released from an Arizona prison was arrested Friday at a hotel, authorities said Saturday.
