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09/27/2017

CVS Limits Opioid Prescriptions to 7 Days

(CNN) In a new effort to tackle the deadly opioid addiction crisis in the United States, pharmacy giant CVS announced Friday that it will limit opioid prescriptions to seven days for certain conditions. This restriction will apply to patients who are new to pain therapy. The new pharmacy program wil...

08/14/2017

Faces of an Epidemic: Stories of the Victims of America’s Opioid Crisis https://t.co/Q74LtOeRiw

Faces of an Epidemic: Stories of the Victims of America’s Opioid Crisis — and the Fight to Save Lives By Steve Helling• and Alexandra Rockey Fleming Jack and Hunt Freeman were Texas brothers with a lot going for them. Hunt, 26, was a charismatic salesman at a Harley Davidson shop; Jack,...

08/08/2017

Trump to Hold Briefing on Opioid Crisis Tuesday https://t.co/8uzkxe1ouB

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — With the opioid crisis intensifying and dozens of Americans dying of drug overdoses each day, President Trump plans to hold “a major briefing” on the issue with top administration officials at his private golf club on Tuesday afternoon. A White House spokesman described the brief...

06/26/2017

Ohio County Now Tops U.S. in Overdose Deaths https://t.co/y6X0fgMM3s

‘Mass-Casualty Event’: Ohio County Now Tops U.S. in Overdose Deaths by Jacob Soboroff DAYTON, Ohio — Officials in Montgomery County, Ohio, blame America’s opioid crisis for an ignoble title: the overdose capital of America. “We’re on a pace to have 800 people die this year due to overdose in our cou...

06/09/2017

4 dead, at least a dozen hospitalized after mass overdose in Georgia https://t.co/cU5LVdlx4s

05/02/2017

Painkillers to He**in, New Film Shows It Can ‘Happen to Anybody” https://t.co/sL2E3xVuSA

by Corky Siemaszko Only one of them is still alive when the credits close on “Warning: This Drug May Kill You,” a searing study of the plague directed by longtime New York newswoman Perri Peltz. But in the final frames, the fate of a young survivor named Stephany Gay is anything but certain as she …

03/08/2017

Gov. Hogan declares state of emergency in he**in epidemic https://t.co/r45P4KiGWq

ANNAPOLIS, M.d. – Governor Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency in response to the he**in epidemic in Maryland. Hogan made the announcement at the Maryland Emergency Management Agency Wednesday. He discussed Maryland’s recent efforts to combat opioid addiction and announced an additional $50 mi...

03/02/2017

Why We ‘Self-Medicate’ Our Own Depression or Anxiety https://t.co/sBHliHvUcy

By Dr. Tian Dayton This is mental health awareness month. Which means, in my experience, that it is still, to some extent at least, alcohol awareness month. Many people who suffer with undiagnosed depression or anxiety reach for alcohol or drugs to calm their nerves or relieve them of emotional pain...

03/01/2017

Drug OD deaths nearly tripled since 1999, CDC says https://t.co/3He8TQ64V7

Drug overdose deaths have nearly tripled in the United States since 1999, with whites and middle-aged Americans bearing much of the brunt, a new government report shows. More than 16 out of every 100,000 Americans died of a drug overdose in 2015, compared to just over 6 in 1999, the U.S. Centers for...

02/07/2017

Michael Lohan Fights to Help Drug Addicts https://t.co/4zAjxgSW3e

Lindsay Lohan’s father, Michael Lohan, thinks drug addicts should be forced to take opiate-blocking drugs. In a letter to President Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen, Lohan — a recovering addict and a counselor with the Long Island Teen Challenge rehabilitation program — wrote, “This epidemic is...

01/11/2017

New Year Drunkalogue https://t.co/3ainOaRxuv

By Kim Wilson I remember as a little girl waking up on the morning after my parents had a party the night before. I was usually in the company my elder brother and two boys of close family friends. The four of us (while parents still slept) would smoke the stumped-out ci******es, drink the dregs …

12/07/2016

The Surprising Path From Student Athlete to He**in Addict https://t.co/SQtaQuJa7X

When Robert King was a high school wrestler, he broke his foot and doctors prescribed him Percocet to help ease the pain. But he became addicted to the pain medication, and within a few years he moved on to a cheaper alternative: he**in. “Once I started taking pills I never really stopped,” King tol...