Soy sauce 'colon cleanse' hoax leaves woman brain dead A doctor has outlined a shocking case in which a woman was left brain dead after an internet hoax went horribly wrong.
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.
Body cam video captures moment police officer stops teen from jumping in front of train An Illinois police officer was able to tackle a suicidal teenage girl just moments before she would have been hit by an approaching train, stunning body camera footage showed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Want to help a veteran suffering from PTSD? Here’s how The Department of Veterans Affairs recently reported that more than 20 veterans and active duty service members, guardsmen and reservists commit suicide every day in this country.
Pete Davidson to bullies: I'd never take my own life Pete Davidson says that no matter how much he’s bullied, he would never take his own life.
