July 6, 2017 Macklemore shows harsh reality of prescription drug abuse in 'Drug Dealer' music video In a raw music video for his new song “Drug Dealer,” hip-hop artist Macklemore paints a stark and moving picture of his personal struggle with prescription drug abuse, which mirrors a nationwide epidemic that has increased death rates among middle-age white people in the United States.
July 6, 2017 FDA launches mobile app competition to aid opioid abuse epidemic Federal health officials are asking the public for mobile app designs that would help connect opioid abusers to carriers of the prescription drug naloxone, which can help reverse overdose.
July 6, 2017 New ‘zombie’ drug may be emerging in Florida as flakka use declines When details of an attack allegedly involving a Florida State University student who police say stabbed an innocent couple to death and then tried to eat the face of one of the victims were released earlier this month, many media outlets quickly pointed to flakka, a synthetic cathinone similar to bath salts that can cause violent, aggressive behavior.
July 6, 2017 Do sports protect teens from abusing painkillers or enable it? As communities nationwide battle a growing opioid and heroin use epidemic, researchers and public health officials are scrambling to identify how abuse may begin.
July 6, 2017 Prince died of opioid overdose, Medical Examiner's Office reveals Prince died of an accidental opioid overdose after he self-administered fentanyl, the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office reported on Thursday.
July 6, 2017 Pennsylvania baby rolls on hypodermic needle, gets OD reversal drug, cops say The father of the 9-month-old baby girl discovered with a hypodermic needle sticking out of her leg now faces several charges.
July 5, 2017 Drug dealers would face manslaughter charges for opioid overdoses under proposed Florida law Florida politicians hope that the matching pieces of legislation – House Bill 477 and Senate Bill 150 – will combat the ubiquitous use of synthetic drugs like fentanyl throughout the Sunshine state following a crackdown on prescription painkillers that have led to a spike nationwide in heroin and opioid abuse.
July 5, 2017 Virginia law will give drug addicts clean needles A new law in Virginia will permit health departments to provide clean needles to drug addicts in order to help decrease the spread of disease.
July 5, 2017 How to recognize heroin addiction and help with recovery When laying out life plans and dreaming about the future, people don’t usually include drug addiction in their vision.
July 5, 2017 As new and lethal opioids flood US streets, crime labs race to identify them As novel, and lethal, opioids flood the streets in state after state, crime labs are racing to identify the unfamiliar compounds in time to save lives.
