America's drug overdose crisis is still largely dominated by opioid overdose deaths.
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Within 63 days of a heroin overdose, 4.1% of young people had another overdose, and within three months, 8.1% of them had a repeat overdose, the study found.
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It cannot prevent an overdose and cannot work on any other type of drug overdose.
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Overdose Because Percocet contains two drugs, there are two potential ways to overdose, Wakeman said.
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Preliminary overdose data from the CDC showed 2017 was another year where overdose deaths increased.
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When looking at overdose deaths involving heroin, the percent of overdose deaths were underestimated by 22%.
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Drug overdose deaths reach new highs Drug overdose deaths are expected to continue to reach new record highs.
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Starting around 2011, opioid painkiller overdose deaths began to level off, and heroin overdose deaths began to increase.
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By 2015, opioid overdose deaths totaled more than 33,000 — close to two-thirds of all drug overdose deaths.
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By 2015, opioid overdose deaths totaled more than 33,000 — close to two-thirds of all drug overdose deaths.
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None of this is bad, but it's certainly not groundbreaking — particularly for an overdose crisis that's broken records for overdose deaths year over year, reaching an estimated 72,000 drug overdose deaths in 1003. Sens.
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Overdose deaths rise 5.5% each year According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 16,849 Americans died due to an overdose in 1999, and in 2015, the number of overdose fatalities reached 52,404.
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Between 2015 and 2016, cocaine-related overdose death rates rose 52% while psychostimulant-related overdose death rates rose 33%.
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Teams respond to overdose outbreaks and visit people in their homes before they overdose, offering help instead of jail.
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Police officers must be equipped with the antidote to a heroin overdose or an opioid overdose, known as Narcan.
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Now a file is open on each overdose death, and for some of the naloxone [overdose-reversing drug] saves.
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This is especially important because the onset of a fentanyl overdose is often much quicker than a typical overdose.
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That, the claim goes, fueled the current drug overdose crisis, which led to nearly 64,20143 overdose deaths in 2016.
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The opioid crisis is now the nation's deadliest drug overdose epidemic, with 70,000 people dying from overdose in 2017 alone.
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These incidents are perfectly in line with blaming Ariana Grande, over the overdose of her ex-boyfriend, Mac Miller's overdose.
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Friday is International Overdose Awareness Day, a time to raise awareness and combat stigma related to drug overdose and addiction.
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And US overdose death numbers are still unprecedented; the country's overdose death rate increased by 76% from 7003 to 2017.
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These claims are refuted by studies in New York, San Francisco and here in Connecticut of overdose risks, undertaken before widespread availability of naloxone, in which a strong predictor of an overdose was a previous nonfatal overdose.
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A total of 33,091 Americans died from opioid overdose in 2015, and 91 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose.
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Over the course of the opioid epidemic, distributing naloxone to reverse overdose deaths took on added importance as overdose rates climbed.
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Paul LePage saying, in essence, that the overdose antidote only enables drug users to continue using drugs until their next overdose.
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Drug overdose deaths totaled 67,000 in 2018, making it the second-worst year for drug overdose deaths ever recorded in America.
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The CDC has reported 91 kratom-involved overdose deaths and found the drug in the systems of 153 other overdose deaths.
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Harm reduction centers typically provide clean needles, access to the overdose reversal drug, naloxone, and, if they were to be legalized, many would operate overdose prevention sites, where people could use drugs under medical supervision to prevent overdose deaths.
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"This finding raises concern that in the near future, fentanyl analog overdose deaths might mirror the rapidly rising trajectory of fentanyl overdose deaths that began in 2013 and become a major factor in opioid overdose deaths," the authors wrote.
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Heroin overdose deaths rates have tripped since 2212 according to one report—and overall opioid overdose death rates have tripled since 2122.
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I continued while facing the daily risk of overdose and AIDS—after I'd already nearly died from an overdose and contracted hepatitis.
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Marilyn Monroe died on August 5, 1962 of either an accidental pill overdose, an intentional pill overdose, or a CIA-backed assassination.
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The rate of overdose in West Virginia was over 22027 times the national average of 22016 overdose deaths for every 230,000 people.
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The number of overdose deaths involving heroin has been dropping, even as overdose deaths over all have kept climbing because of fentanyl.
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About 30% of what is labeled opioid overdose is actually opioid-benzodiazepine overdose, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse statistics.
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But as a drug overdose epidemic continues to ravage America, prosecutors have become more aggressive in charging drug overdose cases as homicides.
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In 22015, the opioid epidemic led to more than 233,2000 opioid overdose deaths and more than 22014,403 total drug overdose deaths nationwide.
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Users in these sites overdose all the time, but because there are always people present with naloxone, no overdose has been fatal.
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The data tells the story: As overdoses from traditional painkillers plateaued in the past few years, overdose deaths linked to heroin overtook overdose deaths linked to commonly prescribed painkillers, and overdose deaths linked to synthetic opioids like fentanyl rapidly rose.
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Although these drugs were involved in 29% of drug overdose deaths in 2010, they represented 24% of all drug overdose deaths in 753.
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Overdose deaths from cocaine increased more than 34%, and the rate of overdose deaths from psychostimulants increased more than 33%, the report found.
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Between the lines: Prescription drugs had been the primary cause of overdose deaths — in 2011, only 6% of overdose deaths involved synthetic opioids.
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The data used in the study for overdose deaths generally undercounts opioid overdose deaths because the drugs behind some overdoses aren't always identified.
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The bulk of the decline in overdose deaths seems to be linked to a drop in painkiller overdose deaths of nearly 16 percent.
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Still, an overdose death was an overdose death — it would appear in the news that way, and Engler would have heard of it.
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I also helped advance the Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety Act, which would help equip doctors with important information to prevent overdose tragedies.
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The decline in overdose deaths "Last year we saw the first nationwide decline in drug overdose deaths in nearly 31 years," Trump said.
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More than 2,300 individuals who suffered an opioid overdose were identified and compared with more than 9,200 individuals who didn't experience an overdose.
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A new study in JAMA Internal Medicine suggests that expanding access to naloxone, the opioid overdose antidote, may result in fewer overdose deaths — a lifesaving outcome as America deals with an opioid epidemic that's now the deadliest drug overdose crisis in US history.
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Still, opioids are now linked to more overdose deaths than cocaine even among black Americans: While the cocaine overdose death rate for black people was 5.9 per 100,103 in 2016, the opioid overdose death rate among black people was 10 per 100,000.
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"My own sister died of a drug overdose when I was 6," she continued, referencing her sister who died by an overdose decades ago.
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If a patient overdosed on Oxycontin, which has a slow release in the gut, they can be revived from overdose only to overdose again.
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There were more than 70,000 drug overdose deaths in 2017 — the highest number of drug overdose deaths for any single year in US history.
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Naloxone is a drug that can be administered to a person suffering an opioid overdose and can rapidly reverse the overdose and prevent death.
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"[This year], we had 3,383 overdose deaths in Pennsylvania, overdose deaths – 55 percent were heroin related and then 26 percent were fentanyl," Garbely says.
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Drug overdose deaths Drug overdose deaths among US residents totaled 70,203 in 2017, nearly 6,600 more than in 2016, a second government report finds.
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Two years earlier, reports of Prince's fatal overdose took similar titles: "Prince's Fentanyl Overdose Gives New Urgency to Opioid Epidemic," read a PBS headline.
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A drug overdose In 1984, David Kennedy, one of Ethel and Robert F. Kennedy's children, died in a Florida hotel after a drug overdose.
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She starred in a short-lived reality show; her son died of an accidental overdose; and five months later she had a fatal overdose.
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Overall drug overdose deaths declined from more than 103,210 in 26, the highest overdose death toll on record, to more than 22018,000 in 2018.
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In 28503, opioids were involved in 22019,600 overdose deaths, making opioid overdose one of the leading injury-related causes of death in the nation.
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There also may be drops in overdose deaths in some Appalachian states, like Ohio and Pennsylvania, although West Virginia — which has by far the worst overdose death rate in the country — has continued to see increases in overdose deaths, based on the CDC data.
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That's desperately needed: In 2000, the opioid epidemic led to more than 21995,22016 opioid overdose deaths and more than 20163,22016 total drug overdose deaths nationwide.
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There were more than 32,000 opioid-related overdose deaths in 2015, and the number 0f drug overdose death increased by 19% between 2015 and 2016.
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In 290, Ohio's Montgomery County—often cited as the overdose capital of the US—had an overdose death rate of 22016 deaths per 2116,265 people.
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In 2016, for example, the white drug overdose death rate was 20163 per 100,000 people, while the black overdose death rate was 16.4 per 100,000.
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If these increases continue and prescription opioid overdose deaths plateau, as experts warn is possible, the overall overdose numbers could continue their climb up again.
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West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio also have among the highest overdose rates in the nation, but overdose deaths fell in all three states last year.
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West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio also have among the highest overdose rates in the nation, but overdose deaths fell in all three states last year.
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In some cases, officers have administered the overdose-reversal drug Narcan to themselves — a feat that would be impossible in the midst of an actual overdose.
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The students had all attended opioid overdose prevention sessions at the university where they received kits containing naloxone nasal spray, capable of reversing an opioid overdose.
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A study on overdose mortality rates in Vancouver found that overdose deaths in the area around an injection facility fell by a third after it opened.
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Among youth whose initial overdose involved other types of opioids, 1.2% had a repeat overdose within 30 days and 2% had a recurrence within 90 days.
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Overall, the report found that prescription opioid overdose deaths in the US quadrupled between 220 and 2010, while heroin overdose deaths quadrupled between 2002 and 2013.
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Even among those cases of overdose that are seen in a healthcare facility, the cause of injury or disability may not be formally attributed to heroin overdose.
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In 22012, these types of drugs were involved in just 8% of all overdose deaths, and by 2015, they were involved in 18% of all overdose deaths.
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There were an estimated 72,000 drug overdose deaths in 2017, per the NYT, and a leading contributor to the increase in overdose rates is deadly synthetic opioids.
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The drug overdose epidemic hasn't hit people of all racial groups equally either, with white Americans suffering far more overdose deaths than their black and Latino peers.
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The number of drug overdose deaths appeared to peak in September 19993, when the predicted number of overdose deaths for the previous year reached more than 73,000.
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A recent CDC analysis of overdose deaths in 10 states found that fentanyl was involved in 56% of opioid overdose deaths from July 2016 through December 153.
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Since institutionalized populations may have greater rates of benzo use and overdose, the gap in the data could miss a contributor to the rise of overdose deaths.
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When the EMTs arrived, they injected Alexa with Narcan, a medication to treat opioid overdose, but they couldn't resuscitate her because she hadn't died of an overdose.
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Meanwhile, an opioid epidemic has led to the deadliest drug overdose crisis in US history — with nearly 213,000 drug overdose deaths in 2016 (at least two-thirds of which were linked to opioids), up more than 20 percent from the more than 52,000 drug overdose deaths in 2015.
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According to the CDC, Opioid addiction is driving this epidemic, with 18,893 overdose deaths related to prescription pain relievers and 85033,574 overdose deaths related to heroin in 2014.
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According to Wednesday's report, which analyzed death certificates for drug overdose deaths between 8923 and 2016, fentanyl was involved in nearly 29% of all overdose deaths in 2016.
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About two-thirds of the overdose deaths were from opioids like heroin and painkillers: There were 228,28 opioid-related overdose deaths in 224 compared to 22017,2100 in 2015.
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They found that as many as 76 drug overdose deaths annually could be prevented, compared to the 907 people who died of an overdose in Philadelphia in 2016.
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They separated overdose deaths into one of three categories: Overdose deaths tied to opioid use, deaths tied to non-opioid use, and deaths with no specified drug at blame.
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Oxycodone (an opioid) was the leading cause of drug overdose deaths in 255 and 248 before heroin replaced it as the leading cause of drug overdose deaths in 953.
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"If she was exhibiting the signs of an overdose, then naloxone would be administered as standard treatment," said Eliza Wheeler, an overdose response strategist at the Harm Reduction Coalition.
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Dr. Daviss said that a number of people who go to an emergency room after an overdose will die from a second, third or fourth overdose within a year.
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Most states have now enacted laws to increase access to naloxone – an overdose-preventing drug – and provide Good Samaritan protections to those who help save a life from overdose.
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Last year, 68,557 people died from a drug overdose — though it marked a drop in American overdose deaths for the first time since 1990, The New York Times reported.
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More than 63,600 lives were lost to drug overdose in 2016, marking the most lethal year yet of the drug overdose epidemic, according to a report released this week.
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Preventing overdose requires vigilance in prescribing at all dose levels as well as knowledge of the drivers of overdose, such as dangerous drug combinations, that are independent of dose.
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"Philadelphia's fatal overdose rate is the worst in the nation among large cities, and incidents of overdose have steadily increased to an alarming degree," Kenney said at the time.
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If that reduced risk applies to overdose deaths as well, eliminating concurrent opioid and benzodiazepine use could have prevented up to 2,630 opioid painkiller–related overdose deaths in 2015.
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France, for example, responded to an overdose crisis by allowing all physicians to prescribe buprenorphine without restrictions or special training: Overdose deaths dropped by 75 percent within four years.
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The idea: If a person gives or sells drugs to someone else who dies of an overdose, then that person should be, legally, held culpable for the overdose death.
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Drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in the United States, according to federal statistics; in 2014 alone, more than 28,000 overdose deaths were linked to opioid consumption.
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The overdose death rate for inmates dropped by 203% within a year of them leaving jail , and this alone lowered the fatal overdose rate for the entire state by 12%.
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"The number of drug overdose deaths has never been higher," the CDC asserts, reporting that out of 70,53 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2017, 68% involved opioids.
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But overdose deaths are still climbing — as they were well before Trump took office — though Conway said the administration is encouraged by the declining rate of growth in overdose deaths.
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Preliminary data shows that drug overdose deaths may have fallen by 5 percent in 2018 — the first drop in overdose deaths since the country's opioid epidemic began in the 1990s.
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She also called a slow-down in growth in overdose deaths, which still accounted for the highest level of overdose deaths in the country, as its own type of victory.
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In addition to getting people on opioid replacement therapies (like methadone and suboxone) and making overdose reversal drugs (like naloxone) widely available, Canada has allowed overdose prevention sites to proliferate.
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When we'd open up overdose investigation files, there would be none, because an overdose death would be treated like an accidental death, or similar to a suicide, in a way.
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But according to multiple reports from other states also dealing with the strains, the opioid overdose-reversal drug naloxone (brand name Narcan) may not be effective against an acrylfentanyl overdose.
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They could also go to addiction and overdose prevention, such as the opioid overdose antidote naloxone and new education campaigns, and recovery services, like peer support networks and recovery coaches.
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While the data suggests overdose deaths went down overall, that was mostly due to falling painkiller overdose deaths, which went from around 15,000 in 2017 to below 13,000 in 2018.
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White people still suffer a greater rate of overdose deaths, and, as a majority of the population, they still make up much more of the raw total of overdose deaths.
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While Pennsylvania and Ohio saw a decrease in overdose deaths in 2018, they were still among the top five states with the highest drug overdose death rate in the nation.
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The proportion of waivered providers climbed about five-fold in communities with the most overdose deaths, compared to about a three-fold increase in places with the fewest overdose deaths.
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RFK's son dies from drug overdose David Kennedy, one of Ethel and Robert F. Kennedy's 29 children, died in 21973 in a Palm Beach, Florida, hotel after a drug overdose.
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"I have not seen a single data point that an overdose happened at a school," said Eliza Wheeler, an overdose response strategist with the Harm Reduction Coalition in Oakland, California.
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Unlike other opioids, however, it seems to have an extremely low overdose risk, which has caught the eye of people working to fight the record high level of overdose deaths.
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Narcan can reverse the effects of a heroin overdose almost instantly, but carfentanil is so powerful that first-responders say many overdose victims are requiring multiple doses to counteract its effects.
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Drug interactions can also play a role in overdose deaths, particularly benzodiazepine drugs prescribed for anxiety, which have been blamed for a fivefold increase in overdose deaths from 22015 to 212.
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Cuyahoga County has created an opiate task force, and implemented Project D.A.W.N. in 2013, which educates people about opiate overdose signs and provides free naloxone kits to help prevent overdose fatalities.
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SIFs offer sterile syringes, skin-cleansing products, and a brightly lit space; they have medical staff that can respond to an overdose and administer naloxone, the antidote to an opioid overdose.
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At one point or another, virtually every band member nearly died from drugs (Axl circa 1986, pill overdose; Slash, 1992, speedball overdose; Adler, 1996, stroke from cocaine; McKagan, 1994, burst pancreas).
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The majority of drug overdose deaths nationwide involve an opioid, and about 91 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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A 210 study in Science found that, while drug overdose deaths spiked in the 279s and 19993s with the opioid epidemic, there has been "exponential growth" in overdose deaths since 21999.
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"The opioid overdose epidemic in the United States continues to worsen," according to an in-depth analysis of 220006 drug overdose data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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The typical definition of overdose leads one to think of death by opiate overdose or other extreme emergency situations where a person needs life-saving medical measures to survive the event.
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These include the expansion of overdose prevention centers, supervised injection facilities, and making Naloxone -- an FDA-approved drug that helps to reverse the effects of an opioids overdose -- more widely available.
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But there's no national standard for what counts as an opioid overdose, so it's left to local medical officials to decide whether a death was caused by an overdose or not.
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As a result, the opioid crisis is now the deadliest drug overdose epidemic in US history, with opioids causing at least two-thirds of the nearly 64,000 overdose deaths in 2016.
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The new study shows these prescriptions are important risk factors for overdose for others in the household, he said, and overdose reduction and treatment strategies are needed for family members, too.
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So requiring emergency crews to take seconds or minutes to put on unnecessary gear could put some overdose victims in actual danger — and then somebody might actually die of an overdose.
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The overdose count stands at 26 -- none are fatal.
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If people are at risk of overdose, maybe a program can provide them with naloxone — or create a space where they can be supervised in case they overdose and need medical aid.
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Preliminary numbers for 2018 indicate that the overdose death rate may have leveled off earlier in the year, although that would still leave drug overdose deaths at record or near-record rates.
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But there's no national standard for what counts as an opioid overdose, so it's left to local medical officials to decide whether a death was caused by an opioid overdose or not.
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In February, the White House proposed $1.1 billion to fight the opioid overdose epidemic, including $500 million to help states expand prescription drug overdose prevention, increase treatment and expand access to naloxone.
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His county has been nicknamed the "overdose capital of America" and saw more than 300 accidental drug overdose deaths last year, a number it may be on track to double in 2017.
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He notes that the province of British Columbia, where Vancouver is located, already has 30 overdose prevention sites, where people can inject drugs under medical supervision and be revived if they overdose.
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Around the same time, one of his favorite actors, Philip Seymour Hoffman, also suddenly passed away from a combined drug overdose, and a family member of his almost died of an overdose.
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Preliminary numbers for 20163 indicate that the overdose death rate may have leveled off earlier in the year, although that would still leave drug overdose deaths at record or near-record rates.
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"People who died from overdose with cocaine and fentanyl in their system look similar demographically and in death scene presentation to those who died from overdose with cocaine and heroin," said Viner.
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"Our study did not look at the outcome of overdose or deaths, but there is a clearly established benefit of getting treated with buprenorphine and lower overdose risk," Saloner said by email.
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The AAC also says that most people who overdose have a history of substance abuse and/or addiction, and in most cases, an overdose is a clear sign that treatment is needed.
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With opioid overdose deaths hitting record highs throughout the US, and the White House Commission calling for declaring a state of emergency, many are looking for new solutions to addiction and overdose.
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A government report last year said more than 42,000 drug fatalities in 2016 involved opioids, and a study published in December found opioid deaths were a significant part of an overall drug overdose emergency, with cocaine-related overdose deaths among non-Hispanic blacks on par with overdose deaths caused by heroin and prescription opioids among whites.
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If a medical examiner marks a death as immediately caused by an opioid overdose through the proper ICD-10 codes, that death is eventually added to the US's total for opioid overdose deaths.
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Gottlieb cited data from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts which found a greater than 50 percent reduction in the risk of death from overdose among those treated with methadone or buprenorphine after an overdose.
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Gottlieb cited data from the state of Massachusetts that showed a greater than 50 percent reduction in the risk of death from overdose among those treated with methadone or buprenorphine after an overdose.
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For one, there's the very real risk of overdose — a risk that only grows as people use opioids longer, since they develop a tolerance for the painkilling effects but not the overdose causes.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last month that drug overdose deaths reached historic levels in 2014, with an individual more likely to die by overdose than in a car crash.
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More than 63,600 lives were lost to drug overdose in 2016, the most lethal year yet of the drug overdose epidemic, according to a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics.
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If a medical examiner marks a death as immediately caused by an opioid overdose through the proper ICD-289 codes, that death is eventually added to the US's total for opioid overdose deaths.
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Kertesz, pointing to data on overdose deaths, has argued that mental health issues are actually a much better predictor of overdose risk than whether a patient is on a high dose of opioids.
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Of course you would give people naloxone, the opioid overdose antidote, to revive them from an overdose — just like you wouldn't hesitate to use a defibrillator to revive someone who suffered cardiac arrest.
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For example, heroin overdose deaths were underestimated by 22 percent.
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It is the deadliest drug overdose crisis in US history.
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Their daughter, Della, died of a drug overdose in 1998.
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Naloxone is a medication designed to rapidly reverse opioid overdose.
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One big boom and you could really overdose on pleasure.
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Since 1003, the number of overdose deaths involving opioids quadrupled.
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Paul LePage to expand access to an opioid overdose treatment.
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Overall, opioids were a whopping 73% of all overdose deaths.
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In January alone, Metro Emergency Services answered 695 overdose calls.
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Still, he said, an overdose or drowning are still possibilities.
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I was upstairs in my room taking pills to overdose.
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Not every call was necessarily a heroin overdose, authorities said.
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At this point some overdose patients have sudden cardiac arrest.
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Overdose patients can end up paralyzed and unable to speak.
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No one will face criminal charges in Prince's overdose death.
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They've been made about distribution of the overdose antidote, naloxone.
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Overdose deaths for cocaine and synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, increased.
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A record 72,000 Americans died from an overdose last year.
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Five months later, Ledger died of a prescription drug overdose.
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How Demi Lovato was recently hospitalized for a supposed overdose.
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The researchers considered one intentional overdose of acetaminophen possibly related.
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Rapper Mac Miller died of an apparent overdose on Friday.
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Kentucky had 1,404 overdose deaths in 2016, the lawsuit said.
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Police say the mother was suffering from a drug overdose.
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Miller, 26, died five months ago from an accidental overdose.
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Mac Miller died of an accidental overdose in September 2018.
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How Do You Recover After Millions Have Watched You Overdose?
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It wasn't alcohol or an overdose; it was a stroke.
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The drug itself is protective against overdose and relapse, regardless.
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The NYPD is investigating his death as a possible overdose.
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As we reported ... Valerie died Wednesday from an apparent overdose.
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The total number of marijuana overdose deaths, meanwhile, is zero.
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Just touching Fentanyl can send an EMS worker into overdose.
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It's one more year until Werewolf Jones has his overdose.
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TMZ broke the story ... Mac died from an accidental overdose.
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He died in Chicago in 1997 from a drug overdose.
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Overdose deaths continued to rise among black and Hispanic people.
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By March, the unit had intervened in 269 overdose cases.
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They also feared he was doing drugs and could overdose.
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There are no medical professionals there to reverse an overdose.
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The arrest follows the March overdose death of teammate Padgett.
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TMZ broke the story ... Chyna died of a possible overdose.
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Pop star Prince died of a fentanyl overdose in April.
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An autopsy later confirmed he died of an opioid overdose.
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He died of a fentanyl overdose, nearly one year ago.
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She was hospitalized for an apparent overdose in September 2015.
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So America continues leading other wealthy nations in overdose deaths.
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Women were more likely than men to experience an overdose.
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Among whites, overdose deaths rose by more than a quarter.
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Editorial About half of opioid overdose deaths involve prescription drugs.
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Carter's sister Leslie died in 2012 from an accidental overdose.
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And yes again the cause of death was opioid overdose.
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Down the line, risks may include physical dependence and overdose.
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Officials believe the cause of death is a drug overdose.
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The musician Prince died of a fentanyl overdose in April.
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His grandson, Charley Joyner, died of an opioid overdose Dec.
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The singer died of an accidental drug overdose in 73.
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An opioid overdose kills 130 Americans each day, on average.
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In all, there were 70,237 drug overdose deaths in 2017.
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" Everything we know about Demi Lovato's apparent overdose "Ummm no??
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Users can still get high, but they almost never overdose.
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Cory Monteith died in July 2013 from a drug overdose.
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However, it does have a lower overdose risk than methadone.
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He died from an accidental heroin overdose in September 2014.
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Prince died in April 2016 from an accidental fentanyl overdose.
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Drug overdose deaths are increasing faster than in recent years.
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I had never felt that way after an overdose before.
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That's an average of 115 opioid overdose deaths each day.
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"It ended up being an accidental opioid overdose," he said.
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He died in 1987 at 44 of an accidental overdose.
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At one point, she attempted suicide with a morphine overdose.
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Right, so it's not necessarily a question of say, overdose.
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For one, there's the very real risk of deadly overdose.
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Ms. Hemphill's mother watched the 2016 video of her overdose.
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Sid Vicious died from a heroin overdose in February 1979.
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She died at 36 from an overdose of sleeping pills.
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They've supervised thousands of injections, without a single overdose death.
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Then, there are days where nine or 10 people overdose.
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My son died two months ago from a drug overdose.
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Three weeks later, another fatal overdose in New Jersey: 88.
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The obituary made clear that she died of an overdose.
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One risk: Naloxone can wear off before an overdose does.
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Editorial An overdose is often a lonely way to die.
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Paramedics had given him naloxone, the antidote for opioid overdose.
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In 2018, her sister, Whitney, died of a drug overdose.
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Their case started with a pair of heroin overdose deaths.
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In all, Palm Beach County dealt with 22015,225 overdose calls.
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She called and wrote down what he said: overdose, fentanyl.
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Overdose deaths linked to cocaine increased by almost 5 percent.
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Meanwhile, there were nearly 210,22016 overdose deaths linked to opioids.
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For opioids, the biggest health risk is a fatal overdose.
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He died at 21998 of a drug overdose in 21980.
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After Cleve's first overdose, the doctors had few options available.
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There were more than 3,000 such overdose deaths in 2017.
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Every day, 85033 more people are killed by an overdose.
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Every time I used, I risked becoming an overdose statistic.
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Overdose deaths increased nearly 28 percent from 2015 to 2016.
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Trump's failure is made clear in the actual overdose data.
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Later that year, Garland would die of a barbiturate overdose.
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A Laconia emergency team responding to an overdose last month.
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In 303, nearly 15,000 Americans died of an opioid overdose.
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And this region is not ready for an overdose epidemic.
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From my perspective, an overdose means a several different things.
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"They have her die of an opioid overdose," Barr said.
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Indiana and Ohio also experienced substantial growth in overdose treatments.
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We are in a period of fashion overdose right now.
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Because an overdose can cause severe liver damage or death.
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We can expect overdose deaths to start going up again.
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Another was when his mother died of a drug overdose.
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TMZ broke the story ... Matt died of an apparent overdose.
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Within four years, overdose deaths had declined by 79 percent.
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Daniel Goonan, the Manchester city fire chief, said firefighters routinely carry Narcan -- a life-saving anti-overdose drug which also goes by the generic name naloxone -- when responding to the scene of an overdose.
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Not every overdose is considered a suicide—untangling and identifying the exact causes of an overdose can be complicated—but experts say you can't fully separate substance abuse from the discussion of mental health.
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Because while all 50 states have some sort of Naloxone legislation now, not every state has overdose Good Samaritan laws, which provide criminal immunity to those who call 911 to report a drug overdose.
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For the Cataldo Ambulance Service crews outside Boston on the front lines of the U.S. opioid epidemic, the flood of overdose calls is a grim daily reality, despite expanded access to overdose reversal drugs.
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Data from 503 reflects "two distinct but interrelated trends," the CDC notes, a longterm increase in overdose deaths due to prescription opioids and a surge in illicit opioid overdose deaths, mostly related to heroin.
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According to American Addiction Centers, different drugs can cause different overdose symptoms, but some signs of an overdose include severe chest pain, seizure, severe headache, difficulty breathing, and either delirium, extreme agitation, or anxiety.
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In Rhode Island, Democratic Governor Gina Raimondo's Overdose Prevention and Intervention Task Force uses publicly available analytics to track progress in its quest to reduce opioid overdose deaths by one-third within three years.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that there were 28,466 overdose deaths connected to synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, in 2017, and that 47,600 overdose deaths that year involved any kind of opioid.
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There were more than 33,000 drug overdose deaths in the US in 2017 — a record for overdose deaths in a single year — and more than two-thirds of those deaths were linked to opioids.
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This may explain why the highest rates of black overdose deaths in 22016 were among 255- to 2000-year-olds, although the overdose death rates among younger groups were still fairly high and accelerating.
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Of course, that doesn't make the rise in black overdose death rates any less unsettling, given that they still show an increasing share of the population is being killed by the current overdose crisis.
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"It has come to play a key role in the overdose crisis," said Tim Plancon, who oversees the Drug Enforcement Administration in Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio, states at the epicenter of the overdose crisis.
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The rate for cocaine increased by nearly 5 percent, while the rate for stimulants like meth increased by nearly 22 percent — though stimulant overdose deaths in general were still dwarfed by opioid overdose deaths.
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The overdose death of a second man, 55-year-old Timothy Dean, at Buck's apartment in January prompted authorities to take another look at Moore's case, which had previously been ruled an accidental overdose.
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The number of overdose deaths involving opioids jumped six-fold from 1999 to 2017, with 85033 percent of all overdose deaths in 2017 involving opioids, according to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.
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Throughout Ohio, the number of overdose deaths rose from 2,531 in 2014 to 3,050 last year, and the number of fentanyl-related overdose fatalities surged from just 84 in 2013 to 1,155 in 2015.
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It's a big reason drug overdose deaths have skyrocketed in the past few years, with overdose deaths linked to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids (excluding methadone) spiking more than 10 times over since 2011.
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Ohio attorney general Mike DeWine echoed Ingram's concerns last week, and warned that even when overdose victims are given naloxone and brought to the hospital, they still risk dying of an overdose after they're discharged.
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"States may be greatly underestimating the effect of opioid-related overdose deaths because of incomplete cause-of-death reporting, indicating that the current opioid overdose epidemic may be worse than it appears," the authors wrote.
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"It's really not 'the opioid overdose epidemic' but the 'opioid and ...' overdose epidemic," said Dr. Chinazo O. Cunningham, an internist and a professor of family and social medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
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Some states also require doctors to check these programs before prescribing painkillers, which could have helped reduce benzodiazepine overdose The current study could help shine a light on the problem of benzodiazepine abuse and overdose.
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According to him, overdose symptoms like blue lips and nails, unconsciousness, pinpoint pupils, and breathing problems are relatively non-specific, which can make it difficult to determine whether an overdose is opioid-induced or not.
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While overdose deaths increased between 1999 to 2017, provisional data posted by the CDC earlier this month suggest overdose deaths fell slightly last year -- down to an estimated 68,000 from about 70,20133 the year before.
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"This pattern has persisted into the overdose crisis, which has hit young people especially hard in some jurisdictions," said Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, and drug overdose expert.
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Still, there are 210 overdose victims Pompilio hasn't been able to get into the program this year, plus an unknown number of people who may be using opioids and just haven't happened to overdose yet.
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Burke also threatened to kill Loeb with a tainted heroin overdose.
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These medicines also cut the risk of fatal overdose by half.
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The threat of overdose is greatest after a period of abstinence.
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A few years later, her mother died of a drug overdose.
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Still, the crackdown has slowed the rise in painkiller overdose deaths.
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Rates of psychostimulant overdose deaths were stable from 2003 to 2010.
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She died, in 22018, from a barbiturate overdose at age 22018.
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Jackson died from an overdose of prescription drugs in June 2009.
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Naloxone helps reverse the effects of an overdose and saves lives.
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Prince died of an accidental fentanyl overdose on April 21, 2016.
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He spent the following months recovering from a near-fatal overdose.
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And a couple days later they&aposd-- overdose and-- and die.
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Miller died of an accidental overdose in September at age 26.
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More than 33,000 Americans died from opioid overdose in 2015 alone.
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They generally produce decreases in overdose, drug injection, and drug smoking.
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Heart disease, drug overdose, homicide and suicide are the main causes.
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A total of 33,091 Americans died from opioid overdose last year.
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Some states were much worse about confirming overdose deaths than others.
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It was this overdose, according to Saudi prosecutors, that killed Khashoggi.
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It is not uncommon for opioid overdose patients to experience aspiration.
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US overdose deaths will double again in eight years, scientists predict.
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He eventually died at the age of 28 of an overdose.
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Naloxone is a medication designed to immediately reverse an opioid overdose.
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" UFC fighter Aljamain Sterling echoed that: "Epitome of overdose on power!
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About 15% of all drug overdose deaths involved methamphetamine in 2017.
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"It's very easy to overdose," a narrator in the video warned.
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A graph shows overdose deaths in San Francisco in recent years.
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There were a total of 0003 opioid overdose deaths that year.
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Heroin, meanwhile, was linked to nearly 13,000 overdose deaths in 2015.
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Nationally, meth was the 4th-most common cause of overdose deaths.
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And about five, six years ago, Miriam died of an overdose.
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In 2005, Warren lost her first son to a heroin overdose.
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Staff are also trained in how to respond to an overdose.
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Since 1999, deaths from prescription opioid overdose have more than quadrupled .
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We're told these are among the "complications" related to the overdose.
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The state has also been hit hard by opioid overdose deaths.
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The "Purple Rain" singer died from a self-administered Fentanyl overdose.
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On average, 130 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose.
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We learned yesterday an accidental overdose of pain medication killed Prince.
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But overdose deaths rose by roughly 316% between 1999 and 2017.
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Like humans who overdose on an opiate, Zoey was given Naloxone.
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Between June 73 and June 27, overdose deaths rose by 221%.
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In 1999, 4,030 Americans lost their lives to accidental opiate overdose.
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He aslo signed legislation expanding access to anti-overdose drug Naloxone.
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But why are these overdose deaths involving cocaine and fentanyl spiking?
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On July 24, Lovato was reportedly hospitalized for an apparent overdose.
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Opioids are fueling the deadliest drug overdose epidemic in U.S. history.
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North America is in the midst of a drug overdose disaster.
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Lovato's 27th birthday comes a year after her near-fatal overdose.
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But they wouldn't die from an overdose — it's just not possible.
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Overdose reversal with the use of naloxone/narcone was rapidly expanded.
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That said, families of drugs cause specific symptoms during an overdose.
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The drug was linked to Prince's overdose back in April 2016.
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Every seven hours, a New Yorker dies from a drug overdose.
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The white overdose death rate had climbed to 21986 per 252,21990.
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Johnson said she wouldn't be surprised if it was an overdose.
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Monteith passed away in 2013 at age 31 from drug overdose.
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And the next year, overdose deaths in the state rose 11%.
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Between 2014 and 2015, the state's opioid overdose deaths jumped 17%.
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Mac Miller died Friday of an apparent overdose ... TMZ has learned.
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The overdose prevention sites are staffed with nurses like Leah Bennett.
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Between 2900 and 220006 alone, heroin overdose deaths increased 2202 percent.
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The Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland had dramatic reductions in overdose deaths.
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Narcan counteracts the effects of opioids and can reverse an overdose.
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We broke the story ... Mac died from an overdose in September.
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The trauma to his body after the drug overdose was devastating.
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We have the Overdose Response Initiative, which is up and running.
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Country singer Kalie Shorr's sister has died of a drug overdose.
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I never saw so many people lose their minds and overdose.
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For teens, they also looked at poisoning due to heroin overdose.
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Everyone knows the story of Nikki Sixx's overdose and subsequent death.
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He has also spent time with the families of overdose victims.
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Sadly, over 63,000 Americans died of a drug overdose in 2016.
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"So even as medical prescriptions are falling, overdose deaths are rising."
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America's physicians call on these states to support overdose prevention efforts.
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Every 15 minutes, someone in America dies from an opioid overdose.
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Five months later, the actor died of a prescription-drug overdose.
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We're told officials believe the woman died from a drug overdose.
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With enforcement focused on prescription opioids, the overdose crisis got worse.
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On Tuesday, the singer/actress was hospitalized for an apparent overdose.
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The rate of drug overdose deaths involving any opioid increased 492%.
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She's the same role model she was before her potential overdose.
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The overdose was reported to authorities around at 9:12 a.m.
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Criminalization has also been a big driver of the overdose crisis.
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How many times can an addict overdose in a single day?
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Nationwide use, overdose deaths, and violence fueled by cocaine dropped dramatically.
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About 40 percent of the opioid overdose deaths involved prescription drugs.
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In rural areas, there were 20 overdose deaths per 100,000 people.ADVERTISEMENT
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On that night in 2016, Jessie passed away from an overdose.
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During season seven, Tiffany "Pennsatucky" Doggett dies of a drug overdose.
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Yet studies suggest such government surveillance does not reduce overdose deaths.
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"I lost my mom at 17 to an overdose," he said.
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Prince died of an accidental overdose in April at age 57.
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The man said Burrous may have been suffering from an overdose.
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Roberts died from a prescription drug overdose and West Bend, Wisc.
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That accounts for 61% of all drug overdose deaths that year.
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In the face of fatal overdose, they saved lives with naloxone.
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Many held signs mourning individuals who had died from an overdose.
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West Virginia has the highest drug overdose rate in the country.
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But in 2014 Peaches tragically passed away from a heroin overdose.
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"This has reduced overdose deaths there by 80 percent," said Kendall.
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More than 15,000 women died of an opioid overdose in 2017.
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The day after my ninth overdose, I thought I was dead.
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Read This Next: This Is Exactly What Happens When You Overdose
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That might help explain why overdose deaths are becoming more diverse.
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The coroner's report cited barbiturate overdose as the cause of death.
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Today, more than six in 10 drug overdose deaths involve opioids.
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Such doses put patients at an increased risk of overdose death.
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Over the last decade, heroin-related overdose deaths have nearly quadrupled.
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The guards cleared the area and called 911: the overdose drill.
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Miller died of an accidental overdose at age 26 on Sept.
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And drug overdose deaths hit an all-time high in 2014.
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In 2006, I heard that she had died of an overdose.
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Children are still being killed in schools, still watching relatives overdose.
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Alaska ranks toward the top among states in drug overdose deaths.
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Drugs like buprenorphine could sharply curb the nation's opioid overdose crisis.
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But that doesn't necessarily mean overdose deaths will drop anytime soon.
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Because fentanyl is so potent, the risk of overdose is high.
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A new government review links kratom to nearly 100 overdose deaths.
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Overdose deaths rose sharply in several mid-Atlantic and Midwestern states.
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And a 2014 Australian study found fewer overdose deaths after release.
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Fentanyl, however, is extremely potent, leading more users to fatally overdose.
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Every day, an estimated 78 more people die from opioid overdose.
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When people are dying from overdose, naloxone will save their lives.
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So it's good news that drug overdose deaths fell in 2018.
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Eric Douglas, an actor, died of a drug overdose in 2004.
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The companies have widely denied any involvement in the overdose crisis.
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You'll actually have to do some extra rinsing if you overdose.
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A severe stimulant overdose can cause seizures, heart attack or stroke.
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Drug overdose deaths have increased more than 500 percent since 1990.
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That was partially attributable to the dip in drug overdose deaths.
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Nationally, there were 210,000 overdose deaths in 2015, Mr. Rosenberg said.
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Though he battled his addiction, he ultimately died from an overdose.
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One hundred and thirty Americans die every day from opioid overdose.
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Prince died in 2016 due to an accidental overdose at 57.
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Joplin passed away in October 1970 due to a heroin overdose.
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These unsuspecting victims will then take the drug, overdose and die.
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Virtually everyone knows someone who has died of an opioid overdose.
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Julia E. Crabbe was suffering from an apparent overdose, authorities said.
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Stronger drugs, in turn, increase the risk of death by overdose.
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Most of the drug overdose deaths, about 28,85033, are from opioids.
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Well, Portugal saw its overdose death rate drop 6900% since decriminalization.
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Since 85033, the rate of overdose deaths has more than quadrupled.
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Since 1999, the rate of overdose deaths has more than quadrupled.
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She later turned to hard drugs and died of an overdose.
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Purdue will donate drugs for addiction treatment and overdose as well.
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Contrary to media portrayals, overdose deaths are ravaging communities of color.
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It's also unclear what is driving the decrease in overdose deaths.
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" Or, "My son died of an overdose when he was 19603.
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"I could have been dead — through gang violence, overdose," he said.
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His death was ruled a probable drug overdose later that month.
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Starting around 2011, opioid painkiller overdose deaths began to level off.
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The FDA is pinning its concerns on the opioid overdose crisis.
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Deval Patrick declared opioid abuse and overdose a public health emergency.
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This is now the deadliest drug overdose crisis in US history.
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Drug overdose is main cause of death among European substance abusers.
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In 2016, there were more than 42,000 opioid-related overdose deaths.
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Dorie ApollonioAssociate Professor, Clinical Pharmacy, University of California San Francisco, focusing on tobacco control and policy makingWell, the word overdose is a little odd here, because overdose just means an excessive or dangerous dose of a drug, and since nicotine has no therapeutic use, and it's addictive, and it probably has some toxic effects, anything is an overdose, technically speaking.
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A growing body of research suggests that making medical marijuana available to patients could help reduce opioid overdose deaths, since pot doesn't lead to deadly overdose but can offer the same pain relief for some patients.
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According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were more than 279,22017 drug overdose deaths in 27 — the highest number of drug overdose deaths for any single year in US history.
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Cocaine-related overdose deaths among non-Hispanic blacks are on par with overdose deaths caused by heroin and prescription opioids among whites, according to a study published Monday in the medical journal Annals of Internal Medicine.
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One study predicts that if we don't act soon, the rate of drug overdose will increase drastically and more than a half a million lives will be lost over the next decade due to drug overdose.
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Most deaths from unintentional injury were from overdose — 72% in the self-harm group and 48893% from those with suicide ideation — underscoring the overlap between suicide and overdose risk, according to the National Institute of Health.
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The opioid painkiller and heroin epidemic led to a new record in drug overdose deaths in 2014 — more than 47,000 overdose deaths that year alone, and nearly two-thirds of them were linked to opioids and heroin.
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More data on overdose deaths Regulation and funding:In 2013, the cost of medical care and substance abuse treatment for opioid addiction and overdose was an estimated $78.5 billion, according to a report in the journal Medical Care.
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Naloxone, which counteracts the effect of an opioid overdose, has been available for treating opioid overdose for more than four decades, and is a generic medication, meaning that no company holds the right to exclusively market it.
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Per the National Institute on Drug Abuse, there were over 22018,8003 drug overdose deaths in 2800 — and the "sharpest increase" occurred in deaths related to "fentanyl and fentanyl analogs (synthetic opioids)", with a staggering 2662,201857 overdose deaths.
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So it's not really controversial to conclude that simultaneously using opioids and benzodiazepines dramatically increases the risk of drug overdose — or, conversely, that stopping the concurrent use of these two drugs could reduce the risk of overdose.
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The rate of drug overdose deaths is still more than three times what it was in 22017, and overdose deaths are still higher than deaths due to gun violence, car crashes, or HIV/AIDS at its peak.
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Steve Moran, a deputy coroner, said the coroner's office could not confirm that the one death out of the 52 overdose emergency calls last week was caused by a heroin overdose until they receive a toxicology result.
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Overall, between 2016 and 2017, the state saw a 12 percent decline in overdose deaths—and this may reflect the already-known fact that a large proportion of overdose deaths occur immediately after a period of incarceration.
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To this day, West Virginia leads all other states in drug overdose deaths: According to the latest full federal data, the state had an age-adjusted drug overdose death rate of 52 per 100,000 people in 4383.
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Prince died at age 57 earlier this year from an opioid overdose.
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"Preliminarily, we are investigating it as a possible overdose," the spokesperson said.
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The wrestler had died of an accidental drug overdose, according to ESPN.
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A cocaine or heroin overdose can stop a person's breathing and heart.
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Medically speaking, Chyna died of an overdose of alcohol and prescription drugs.
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She also reportedly stabbed herself and allegedly attempted to overdose on drugs.
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The fan-beloved singer died of a propofol overdose at age 50.
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Prince died at age 57 of an overdose of the painkiller fentanyl.
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Midway through, it is revealed her death was caused by an overdose.
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In 2017, 1433% of all cocaine-related overdose deaths also involved opioids.
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Yet Fiellin thinks more can be done to treat those who overdose.
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The case was reported by Redondo Beach Police as a possible overdose.
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Lomas' death is being investigated as a "probable overdose," the papers state.
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Ruby Rose is supporting her friend Demi Lovato following her shocking overdose.
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There hasn't been a single fatal overdose among the women at PATHways.
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Months later, Miller was found dead in September after an accidental overdose.
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Commonly prescribed opioids were only found in 17 percent of overdose deaths.
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We broke the story ... Mac died from an accidental overdose in September.
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No deaths have been reported as a result of the mass overdose.
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Opioid overdose can cause seizures from lack of oxygen to the brain.
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"I got two uncles in the grave right now, overdose," he said.
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So why not apply this same psychiatric hold to drug overdose cases?
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Mac Miller died from an accidental drug overdose nearly four months later.
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Firefighters help an overdose victim on July 14, 2017, in Rockford, Illinois.
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Synthetic opioids became the leading cause of US overdose deaths in 2016.
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And it could force lower prices for naloxone, the overdose reversal drug.
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The same pattern holds for expanding access to naloxone, the overdose antidote.
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But while the overdose epidemic landscape is changing, it is not eradicated.
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He was found dead of an overdose aboard his 46-foot yacht.
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Demi Lovato remains hospitalized as she continues recovering from her apparent overdose.
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A medical examiner determined that the singer died of an opioid overdose.
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The opioid epidemic is the deadliest drug overdose crisis in American history.
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Demi Lovato has spoken out for the first time since her overdose.
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President Trump declared the overdose crisis a national health emergency last year.
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An earlier version of this post misstated what substance caused the overdose.
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It was the first annual drop in drug overdose deaths since 1999.
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The county sheriff also decided his deputies won't revive citizens that overdose.
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The preliminary estimate for 22017 was off by roughly 683,268 overdose deaths.
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Among large cities, Philadelphia has the highest rate of death from overdose.
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Prince died on April 21st, 2016, due to an overdose of fentanyl.
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Logan died of a drug overdose and never returned to the park?
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" Continuing, the insider remarks: "After an overdose, you can't claim this anymore.
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You had an overdose and there is no way to dismiss it.
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Demi Lovato turned 26 today, almost a month after suffering an overdose.
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This money will pay for the Narcan doses administered to overdose victims.
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Lovato has been open on Instagram in the months since her overdose.
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Prince's cause of death was confirmed as an opioid overdose last week.
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The "Hurt Feelings" rapper died of an accidental drug overdose on Sept.
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Drug overdose deaths rose from 8,048 in 1999 to 47,600 in 2017.
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Philadelphia has the highest opioid-overdose death rate of America's big cities.
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Sometimes the only place to help is in hospital after an overdose.
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Tuesday, 22 people were found in varying states of overdose in Brooklyn.
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In the new series, Roseanne's namesake character died of an opiate overdose.
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The revelation gives more insight into what may have caused Prince's overdose.
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The couple's sixth child Joseph died of a drug overdose in 2009.
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The opioid epidemic is a truly massive drug overdose and addiction crisis.
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Yet overdose deaths for young adult blacks have edged up only slightly.
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Her half-brother Nicholas Curtis died from a heroin overdose in 1994.
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That patient was found dead from a drug overdose the following year.
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Heroin overdose deaths nearly quadrupled across the U.S. between 2002 and 2013.
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Lt. McClure narcans one of those overdose victims again three days later.
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The next morning, she woke up to a call about Lovato's overdose.
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Go deeper: Opioids app aims to lower response times for overdose victims
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The 911 call from Demi Lovato&aposs apparent overdose has been released.
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For whatever reason — a cough/cold, asthma, overdose — Madeleine didn't wake up.
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The analysis found no real difference between rural and urban overdose rates.
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He LOVED his drugs, so it might have just been an overdose.
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Last year, 86% of overdose deaths in the state involved an opioid.
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Black people make up most of the overdose deaths in the city.
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These symptoms led doctors at several Georgia hospitals to suspect opioid overdose.
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Chris Farley, pictured in 1990, died of a drug overdose in 1997.
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Drug overdose deaths in rural counties far outstrip those in metropolitan areas.
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Six overdose prevention sites have opened in Vancouver, British Columbia, since 2016.
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Averaged over time, 91 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose.
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Manchester Police detectives are now investigating the case as a possible overdose.
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Possible factors: Massachusetts has made the overdose reversal drug naloxone more available.
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President Trump has declared the overdose crisis a national public health emergency.
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What that means is that even small amounts can cause an overdose.
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Young says he visited many crime scenes, and helped many overdose victims.
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Nearly half of all overdose deaths involve some kind of prescription drug.
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The state lost a record 303 citizens to overdose deaths in 230.
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The center has not had a single overdose death since it opened.
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The cool thing is you can't overdose, and the refills are free.
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Mac Miller died on Friday of a suspected drug overdose, PEOPLE confirms.
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The boy's mother had died the previous month from a drug overdose.
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The unidentified man died from a drug overdose in his Manhattan apartment.
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Being around overdose deaths and communities affected by them is the norm.
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Remaining overdose deaths involved other drugs, such as cocaine (which also increased).
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TMZ broke the story ... Mac died in September of a drug overdose.
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At least two other caffeine overdose deaths have been traced to supplements.
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A coroner's report confirmed his death was due to a caffeine overdose.
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Younger and older people died by overdose less frequently, the report indicates.
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However, overdose deaths still rose by 316 percent from 1999 to 2017.
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But overdose deaths rose by roughly 316 percent between 1999 and 2017.
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We lost more than 1,400 people to overdose in 85033 and 2017.
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We are in the midst of an epidemic of opioid overdose deaths.
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When they were found, medical staff suspected an opioid overdose, Newsnight reported.
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Fifty-nine thousand to 65,000: people who died from overdose last year.
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When the person takes more opioids, that increases the risk for overdose.
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Per Rolling Stone, Miller's unexpected death was due to an apparent overdose.
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Humanity consists of everyone, including those who use and overdose on drugs.
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About a third of opioid overdose deaths in 2011 involved a benzodiazepine.
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In 2016, 2 in 5 cocaine-related overdose deaths also involved fentanyl.
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But the Overdose Prevention and Safety Act would do exactly the opposite.
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Overdose deaths in large metropolitan areas jumped by more than a third.
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Drug overdose deaths are rising in rural areas across the United States.
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In rural areas, there were 20 overdose deaths per every 100,000 people.
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She died of a drug overdose the next summer, at age 36.
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Since 1999, the number of American overdose deaths involving opioids has quadrupled.
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The opioid crisis has led Huntington to be named America's overdose capital.
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It also increases the availability of naloxone, a drug to treat overdose.
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Every age group studied saw an increase in drug overdose death rates.
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She had died of a heroin overdose at the age of 27.
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The abundance of America, and using heroin and succumbing to an overdose.
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The medical examiner's report confirms Sharp's cause of death as accidental overdose.
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Congress ought to take the drug overdose problem at least as seriously.
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On this Overdose Awareness Day and going forward, remember the lives lost.
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These efforts have led to a reduction in post-incarceration overdose deaths.
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"We're much, much stricter now," since the 2017 overdose death, he says.
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The opioid epidemic is the deadliest drug overdose crisis in US history.
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Medically speaking, Chyna died of an overdose of alcohol and prescription drugs.
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Increased prosecution is unlikely, then, to curb overdose deaths; so what will?
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So he experienced an overdose of the outrage and the media frenzy.
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But there is a way to save people when an overdose happens.
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My sister passed away from accidental suicide from an overdose of Tylenol.
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The risk of overdose became part of the allure of getting high.
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Until 2015, the biggest cause of drug overdose deaths was prescribed painkillers.
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Celebrity website TMZ reported that Miller died of an apparent drug overdose.
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He died of a drug overdose at the age of forty-nine.
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Lil Peep died of an accidental drug overdose last November at 21.
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Overdose deaths declined in 222.8, according to preliminary data from the CDC.
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In some cases, people overdose when they are near friends or family.
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"You grow up seeing people overdose all around you," a boy said.
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So it's not just fentanyl that's causing a spike in overdose deaths.
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In 2017, preliminary data show that there were 2,103 overdose-related deaths.
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An overdose death is a terrible outcome doctors would like to prevent.
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It's typically applied to overdose victims through a nasal spray or injection.
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"We're much, much stricter now," since the 2017 overdose death, he said.
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Supervised injection sites for heroin users have prevented overdose deaths in Canada.
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Monteith died of an overdose in July 2013 at 31 years old.
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Troublingly, coerced treatment is becoming increasingly popular, spurred by the overdose crisis.
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Hughes died in 2000, reportedly of an overdose of alcohol and antidepressants.
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Drug overdose deaths declined for the first time in nearly 30 years.
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The Bronx and Staten Island have the highest rate of overdose deaths.
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Last year, New York City had 1,441 overdose deaths, a record number.
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She then demonstrated how to administer Narcan, an overdose reversal nasal spray.
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His last serious girlfriend also used drugs and died from an overdose.
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Because of this sensitivity, it can be easy to overdose on LSD.
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The causes included overdose, organ damage, or mental problems related to liquor.
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Overdose deaths still stand at a staggering 67,000 lives lost in 2018.
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The causes included overdose, organ damage, or mental problems related to liquor.
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A drug overdose, likely a suicide attempt; I clear for psychiatric care.
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But an overdose can cause extreme confusion, anxiety, paranoia, hallucinations and vomiting.
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Studies have linked marketing for opioids to more prescriptions and overdose deaths.
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Mac Miller died in September 2018 due to an accidental drug overdose.
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His grandson, Charley Joyner, had died of a drug overdose on Dec.
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But I have never seen convincing evidence of a fatal cannabis overdose.
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But it is also important to define the term "overdose" as well.
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An estimated 22019 people die per day of an overdose involving opioids.
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More than 85033,000 people died last year from an opioid-related overdose.
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Punitive measures threaten the progress we have made on the overdose crisis.
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Also that year: Glee start Cory Monteith died of a drug overdose.
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Eric, our only child, died of an accidental opioid overdose at college.
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Another man has been arrested in connection with Mac Miller's fatal overdose.
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A few weeks earlier his daughter had died of a drug overdose.
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Howard Stern 'Wack Packer' Joey Boots died from an accidental heroin overdose.
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Nevertheless, the operating theory is that this was some form of overdose.
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Three months after arriving in Florida, he died of a drug overdose.
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It may seem counterintuitive, but detox is a risk factor for overdose.
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But drug overdose deaths decreased that number by more than three months.
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In 2014, more than 47,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and opioids — primarily prescription pain medicines and heroin — were the main drugs responsible for overdose deaths.
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Perhaps as a result, Vermont had the lowest drug overdose death rates in New England in 103, and it was one of the few states across the country that saw a decline in drug overdose deaths last year.
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The singer's comments about her upcoming album come almost a year after her near-fatal overdose last July, though it's unclear if her overdose and time in rehab is "the story" she referred to in her Instagram message.
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ATLANTA – Prosecutors in Georgia said they&aposll seek to extradite a woman convicted of involuntary manslaughter in a Google executive&aposs overdose death so she can face separate charges in the deadly overdose of her boyfriend near Atlanta.
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For many Americans, Prince's overdose hit close to home—it's estimated that around 219 million people in the US are addicted to prescription opiates, and more than a third of overdose deaths in 22015 involved prescription pain medicine.
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Fears of drug overdose in the small state have soared as a record number of opioid-linked deaths have occurred in New Hampshire, with about one person each day dying as a result of heroin or painkiller overdose.
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But long-term use also carries an increased risk of dependency and overdose, and an opioid overdose epidemic is ravaging the United States: It claimed more than 33,000 lives in 2015, half of them associated with prescription drugs.
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But in May, the federal government passed the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act into law, which provides those who call 911 for themselves or another person in the case of an overdose immunity from simple drug possession charges.
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Overdose antidotes such as naloxone are also essential: in Dayton, a city at the epicenter of Ohio's opioid epidemic, overdose deaths declined nearly 50 percent in 2018 after each of their police officers was given a naloxone kit.
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And Pennsylvania's rates, along with other neighboring Rust Belt states, are statistically higher than the national average; in 2015, Pennsylvania coroners reported more than 3,500 overdose deaths, giving the state the sixth-highest overdose rate in the nation.
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"Naloxone is an essential part of our overdose prevention strategy, it should be a part of any community's overdose prevention strategy," Dr. Sheila Vakharia, deputy director of the Drug Policy Alliance's Department of Research & Academic Engagement, told Motherboard.
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While urban counties had higher rates of overdose deaths involving heroin, cocaine and synthetic opioids such as fentanyl in 5573, rural counties had higher rates of overdose deaths involving prescription opioids such as morphine, codeine, hydrocodone and oxycodone.
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" In the United States, where it's estimated that more than 130 people die every day as the result of an opioid overdose, deaths related to suicide, drug overdose, liver disease and cirrhosis have been called "deaths of despair.
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Ohio is one of the top seven states with the highest number of drug overdose deaths and the state alone is on track to have more overdose deaths in 2017 than the entire United States had in 1990.
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Areas with large numbers of payments and high overdose rates included four cities in Virginia — Salem, Fredericksburg, Winchester and Norton — as well as Cabell County, W.Va., which has one of the highest overdose death rates in the nation.
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Demographically, 15 U.S. jurisdictions saw a drop in drug overdose fatalities, including Alaska, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Wisconsin Men have also historically outpaced women in overdose death rates; both sexes have had the same trajectory, noting skyrocketing increases in overdose death rates between the years of 1999 and 2017.
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"You can imagine if someone is admitted for the morbidity associated with overdose, for example rhabdomyolysis and acute renal failure, the ICU doctor might bill for those as the primary and secondary diagnoses and not include overdose," Wakeman says.
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At more than 68,000 drug overdose deaths, 2018 would still be the second worst year for drug overdose deaths in US history — adding up to more than deaths linked to guns, cars, or even HIV/AIDS at its peak.
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That helps explain why the great majority of opioid overdose survivors, based on a recent study of Massachusetts survivors published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, aren't prescribed medications for opioid addiction in the year following a nonfatal overdose.
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A broader approach is also a chance to respond to the current rise in overdose deaths, and to build the systems that could shield us from the next drug overdose crisis — one that may not involve opioids at all.
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But when you look at the outcomes that we care about, like overdose calls, overdose deaths, crime, improper disposal of injection equipment, that kind of stuff, we see that the majority of the design methodologies are lacking in rigor.
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Even with expanding supervised injection sites (Vancouver now has multiple centers like this) and enlisting community volunteers to help recognize overdose signs and get help, the province of British Columbia had close to 1,000 drug overdose deaths in 2016.
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Heroin's contribution to teen overdose deaths Mirroring the larger population, there was a downward trend in overdose deaths from methadone and prescription opioids in recent years but an uptick in deaths involving heroin and synthetic opioids such as fentanyl.
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Of the 328 air, land and sea entry points into the US that the agency oversees, at least 15 locations, including some along the US-Mexico border, now have naloxone, the opioid overdose antidote, in case of accidental overdose.
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America's opioid epidemic has driven total drug overdose deaths to record numbers — with overdose deaths hitting 22017,22015 in 22016, killing more people annually than guns, car crashes, or HIV/AIDS ever have in a single year in US history.
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The number of overdose deaths related to heroin increased 533% between 2002 and 2016, and a Washington Post report found that fentanyl-related overdose deaths increased nearly 600% in some of America's largest cities over the last three years.
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To the Editor: Re "New Standards for Painkillers Aim to Stem Overdose Deaths" (front page, March 16): The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been doing a commendable job monitoring and controlling the prescription opioid drug overdose epidemic.
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The Ontario government said it will not reverse a decision to stop the opening of new overdose-prevention sites despite critics saying the facilities save lives and Toronto police issuing warnings after a recent string of overdose deaths. tgam.
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We now have more proof that drug companies helped cause America's opioid epidemic, which was associated with a record 47,600 opioid overdose deaths in 2017: A new study linked drug companies' marketing for opioid painkillers to more overdose deaths.
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TMZ broke the story ... Mac died last week of an apparent drug overdose.
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River died on Halloween in 1993 at age 23 from a drug overdose.
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She died Tuesday morning of a suspected drug overdose, according to multiple reports.
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He died at the age of 26 in 2015 from a drug overdose.
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About two-thirds of overdose deaths — more than 42,21990 — were linked to opioids.
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Or was she killed and it was made it look like an overdose?
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That same year, half of psychostimulant-related overdose fatalities also involved opioid use.
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"After an overdose, it's encouraged to head straight to rehab," the insider adds.
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And the most common method of suicide was medication overdose, followed by firearms.
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Each day about 78 Americans die of an opioid overdose, according to authorities.
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Sadly, Justin is not the first to die of an apparent Fentanyl overdose.
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Sadly, love couldn't save Garland, who died in 1969 from a barbiturate overdose.
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He died alone of a heroin overdose in 2014, when he was 37.
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Fentanyl is the leading cause of overdose deaths in New Hampshire, said Sen.
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The majority of drug overdose deaths were unintentional, according to the NCHS report.
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Opioid crisis Deaths from opioid-related overdose deaths have been on the rise.
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And drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl more than doubled in just one year.
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Hampshire, a state where heroin overdose rates nearly quadrupled between 2002 and 2013.
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Hedegaard said heroin is now responsible for one in four drug overdose deaths.
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They were watching their students overdose and their own friends and families succumb.
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America's growing problem with drug overdose deaths has long been dominated by opioids.
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Fentanyl is now the fifth most commonly found drug in an overdose death.
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This can only push the historic overdose death rates to staggering new levels.
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"Every 19 minutes someone dies from accidental drug overdose," said Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
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In 153, the company's then CEO, Colin Kroll, died of a drug overdose.
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Bethenny Frankel's on-off boyfriend Dennis Shields has died of a suspected overdose.
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Until the country does that, it can expect more and more overdose deaths.
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The Mayo Clinic says slurred speech is one symptom of an Ativan overdose.
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Prince was treated for a potential overdose of pain medication, the official said.
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We broke the story ... the HQ honcho died of an apparent drug overdose.
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A medic escorts a woman after she was revived from an opioid overdose.
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We broke the story ... Roberts died of an overdose in Wisconsin in 2016.
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According to the medical examiner, Prince died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl.
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How has your state been affected by an epidemic of drug overdose deaths?
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In 2015 over 9,000 people in America died from a synthetic opioid overdose.
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Instead, they tell people what to do in case of a drug overdose.
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Opioid overdose is the leading cause of unintentional death in the United States.
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A spokesperson said that an "alleged drug overdose" was the cause of death.
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According to a source for TMZ, Demi Lovato did not overdose on heroin.
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Between 2011 and 2012, drug overdose deaths appeared to level off around 41,500.
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According to an insider, a "shocked" Valderrama was completely blindsided by the overdose.
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Today nearly 100 Americans will die from a drug overdose involving prescription drugs.
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Monteith died of a heroin and alcohol overdose at age 31 in 2013.
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But the rate of overdose deaths involving these drugs increased more than fourfold.
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To put that in perspective, 91 people die each day from an overdose.
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Lyric McHenry died Tuesday of a suspected drug overdose, according to multiple reports.
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In September, it was revealed that Miller had died from an apparent overdose.
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For Alba, the story crystallized the questions she had after her son's overdose.
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The fast-acting overdose antidote naloxone (aka Narcan) has saved thousands of lives.
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Moore's sister, Elizabeth, had died of a drug overdose just two years prior.
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The overdose victims ranged from 20 years old to 50, according to Merry.
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Miller died on September 8 in his house from an apparent drug overdose.
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She was rushed to the hospital on Tuesday after suffering an apparent overdose.
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In fact, most users expect to overdose at some point and fall unconscious.
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Ultimately, the clinicians landed on emphasizing the risk of overdose rather than addiction.
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The cause of Roseanne Conners' death would be an opioid overdose, she explained.
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This generic form of Narcan helps reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.
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Penny's story arc crashes with her attempting to overdose on alcohol and Quaaludes.
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Both are the size of pinpoints -- a sure sign of an opioid overdose.
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The drug is largely behind the increase in America's drug-overdose death rate.
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In 2012, there were a little more than 4,400 overdose deaths involving cocaine.
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Overdose deaths involving both cocaine and heroin also increased, but not as quickly.
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Sad suit Funnyman Jim Carrey's being sued over his girlfriend's drug overdose death.
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Following the reported overdose, she allegedly spent 60 days in a rehab facility.
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What does he do after the first overdose of one of his customers?
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That approach has never actually been associated with reduced drug use or overdose.
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The case was touted as possibly the first fatal cannabis overdose ever documented.
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Kroll, then CEO, was found dead in his apartment from a drug overdose.
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Imagine an autopsy that concludes the cause of death was a drug overdose.
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Janis Joplin died of a drug overdose in Los Angeles at age 27.
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So it's not clear if this contradiction will lead to more overdose deaths.
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It is often stronger than the cannabis it resembles so people mistakenly overdose.
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Her older and only brother died from a drug overdose 17 years ago.
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Plus, people who overdose often have a mix of substances in their body.
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It's the first national study of county-level differences in drug overdose deaths.
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An overdose of thiopental sodium, a barbiturate, paralyzes muscles and stops the heart.
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The graph shows that the growing overdose problem pre-dates President Obama's election.
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As we reported ... Prince died of an overdose of the powerful painkiller Fentanyl.
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For every 11 inmates treated, researchers calculated they prevented one death from overdose.
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As the overdose death rate rose, Sutherland feared her patient would be next.
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Batdorff says felt that way too -- before his son died of an overdose.
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Most importantly, heroin overdose deaths began to rise more quickly after that month.
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The Parks and Recreation producer died of a heroin overdose at age 30.
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You don't typically go to a potential overdose call with a young child.
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Opioid abuse and overdose in this country is at an all-time high.
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As the problem of opioid abuse and overdose evolves, so must our response.
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In 2014, Ohio reported more drug overdose deaths than any state except California.
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Make it easier for first responders to administer the overdose reversal drug, naloxone.
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Her dad died of a cocaine and heroin overdose when she was eight.
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Between 2011 and 2012, drug overdose deaths appeared to level off around 41,21999.
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If it does, overdose deaths could spike in western states, negating improvements elsewhere.
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Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots died of an accidental overdose in 2015.
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Nationally, the average rate of drug overdose deaths is 13 per 100,000 people.
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The officer needed four doses of emergency overdose antidote Narcan to be revived.
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The health department recorded 116 overdose deaths in Staten Island for that year.
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He died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl, cocaine and alcohol, PEOPLE confirmed.
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Her son, Christopher Honor, passed away in 2015 of an accidental heroin overdose.
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The overdose occurred hours after a party, which was held the previous evening.
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But do you think that pill testing will realistically solve the overdose problem?
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But while the first death was clearly an accident, K's overdose was not.
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I know it appears to be an overdose where she has ingested something.
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In the meantime,more than 2628,28503 people will die from an opioid overdose.
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We need empowered police forces and first responders equipped with overdose reversal medications.
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Narcan was used to revive Demi Lovato after her overdose on July 24.
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National statistics on drug overdose deaths are based on information from death certificates.
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Cocaine was the largest contributor to overdose deaths among black men and women.
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And drug overdose fatalities also dropped by 85 percent between 1999 and 2015.
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About two-thirds of those overdose deaths were caused by opioids, CDC said.
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There have been reductions in opioid overdose deaths and untreated opioid use disorders.
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"Most overdose deaths from opioids lately are related to nonprescription opioids," Lynch said.
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With prescription opioids in the home, everyone is vulnerable to misuse and overdose.
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Public health experts say it can help solve the staggering opioid overdose epidemic.
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That's about a 22019,200 person decrease from the year prior in overdose deaths.
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The best way to end overdose death is to end drug prohibition now.
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After his mother dies of a heroin overdose Joshua Cody (Finn Cole), a.k.a.
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Without treatment, I would have become a part of the staggering overdose statistic.
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The sheriff&aposs office has since said Crabbe showed signs of an overdose.
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More people die from drug overdose each year as are killed by firearms.
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He puts the overdose deaths in Chapel B because it is the largest.
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Prince died of an accidental overdose of painkillers in April, at age 57.
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It is supposed to be used in an emergency such as an overdose.
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The opioid epidemic is now the deadliest drug overdose crisis in US history.
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The singer died in June 2009 from an overdose of the sedative propofol.
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For the first time, fentanyl will be the leading cause of opioid overdose.
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Over that time, more than 85033,000 people will die from an opioid overdose.
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She's right: Treatment for synthetic weed overdose and addiction is in its infancy.
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Authorities discovered Rowen's parents had been dead since Friday of a heroin overdose.
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Just look at the above snapshot and try not to overdose on awws.
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Elsewhere in the country, overdose death rates for construction workers are even higher.
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You'll be told that naloxone reverses an overdose by replacing overloaded opiate receptors.
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By my eighth overdose, I had already done the work of getting clean.
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The scheme caused the overdose deaths of "at least 14 people," prosecutors said.
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He was found dead in his car, presumably having taken an accidental overdose.
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However, most people with opioid addiction do recover—provided they can avoid overdose.
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In a predictable climax, Whishaw ingests champagne and pills, reënacting Monroe's fatal overdose.
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We have no fitting rituals for the idiotic loss of life to overdose.
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In 2000, at 44, he died from an overdose of alcohol and antidepressants.
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There has never been a fatal overdose at an official safe-injection site.
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Safe injection sites could help reduce overdose deaths and connect people to treatment.
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Nick's sister Leslie died suddenly at 25 back in 2012 of an overdose.
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The opioid overdose antidote naloxone could be made more accessible across the country.
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But the new study shows that the overdose crisis also hits communities' budgets.
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In July 2017, Gemmel Moore, 26, also died from an accidental methamphetamine overdose.
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Still, it's well established that benzodiazepine and opioids compound each other's overdose risk.
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Benzodiazepines and alcohol, for instance, can increase the risk of an opioid overdose.
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"Nog overdose" is practically your middle name at this time of the year.
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Dayton, Ohio, used to have one of the worst overdose rates the country.
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They did it by providing naloxone to first responders, which reduced overdose fatalities.
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Sometimes, officers walk into a situation where an overdose turns into a death.
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In September 2018, the rapper Mac Miller died of an accidental drug overdose.
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An overdose is unlikely, perhaps impossible, but one in ten do become addicted.
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His death was later ruled an accidental overdose from alcohol, cocaine and fentanyl.
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The few times I did overdose, people I was using with revived me.
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The cause was a suspected drug overdose, the authorities in Arizona said Wednesday.
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The police action followed at least five overdose deaths this year, they said.
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They added that the counties originally all had similar baseline opioid overdose numbers.
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Last year, Delray paramedics responded to 244 overdose calls; 20153 ended in fatalities.
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During peak periods, they can race to 20 overdose calls in a day.
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Mac Miller was found dead in September of 2018 of an accidental overdose.
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The 27-year-old singer was hospitalized in July 2018 after an overdose.
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In that same time frame, drug overdose deaths totaled a bit over 22017,000.
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Prince died of an overdose of the drug at his home in 2016.
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Noah is childless; his only nephew, Victor, died of an overdose at 26.
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Every 12 minutes, someone in the United States dies of a drug overdose.
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It looked maybe like a cardiac episode, or a seizure, or an overdose.
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Black-market opioids — heroin and, in particular, fentanyl — also contribute to overdose deaths.
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The Office of Chief Medical Examiner listed the cause as accidental drug overdose.
|
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Police officers reporting to the scene first thought it was a drug overdose.
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While a cannabis overdose won't kill you, it can be unpleasant, Loh said.
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And since 1999, the number of American overdose deaths involving opioids has quadrupled.
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Naloxone, the overdose antidote, is extremely effective and can start working in minutes.
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Instead, it grew naturally from two separate investigations linked by Mr. Zeifert's overdose.
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If the dope was cut with fentanyl, I might overdose after two bags.
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Native American, Latinx, black, and LGBTQ communities already experience disproportionately high overdose rates.
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Every year, more people die from opioid overdose than from motor vehicle crashes.
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Overdose deaths were nearly equal to the number of deaths from car crashes.
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Frantically you pull out your phone and Google: 'Can you overdose from weed?
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Another example of an overdose is adverse effects that result from product contamination.
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Lenny Bruce didn't die until 1966 due to a tragic accidental morphine overdose.
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Preventing every overdose death is important, whether or not it involves prescribed opioids.
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New Hampshire has the second highest overdose death rate in the United States.
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They are responsible for addiction, overdose, and death that damaged millions of lives.
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An estimated 6900 people are dying of an opioid-related overdose every day.
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Garcia said Luis's pediatrician lowered the boy's dosage in July after an overdose.
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The statement did not specify the drug or drugs that caused the overdose.
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What's more, putting drug users in jail will only worsen the overdose crisis.
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The figures are accurate for overdose deaths and the economic costs of addiction.
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Yams died 2 years ago on January 18 due to a drug overdose.
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There would also not be so much suicide or overdose people going on.
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"I didn't know he died from a heroin overdose," he said of Basquiat.
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This goes much further than setting up discharge protocols for opioid overdose patients.
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VICE News captures how one woman's overdose illuminates a trend in organ donation.
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Overdose is a general term to describe experiencing the toxic effects of drugs.
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People can overdose, and often do, without either dying or seeking medical attention.
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The deadliest drug overdose crisis in US history, then, is likely getting deadlier.
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So as people used painkillers and moved on to heroin and fentanyl, they continued using all these other substances that made their risk of overdose much, much higher — and it's showing in the numbers as heroin and fentanyl overdose deaths spike.
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"The pattern of drugs involved in overdose deaths has changed in recent years," the NCHS report said, noting that the rates of overdose deaths involving heroin, methadone, and natural and semisynthetic opiates — oxycodone, for example — were unchanged from 2016 to 2017.
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Reportedly responding to a call of a possible overdose, authorities found Saoirse unresponsive at the home on Thursday afternoon and transported her to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead following what multiple news outlets described as a suspected overdose.
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Perhaps as a result, the state also defied the national trend with a slight decrease in overdose deaths in 2017 — while maintaining the lowest drug overdose death rate in New England, a region hit particularly hard by the opioid crisis.
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In West Virginia, where one out of every 200 residents has died from a drug overdose since 2000, the overdose rate declined by 20% in the year to September 2018, according to preliminary data released by the Centres for Disease Control.
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" Lovato — who was hospitalized for nearly two weeks after her July 24 overdose — has also opened up about her overdose, thanking her friends, family, team, and doctors at Cedars-Sini for their support and assuring everyone that "I will keep fighting.
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With Utah fifth in the nation in heroin overdose deaths (an average of 20153 people die weekly), the Plumbs are working to get Naloxone — an antidote for opioid overdose – into the hands of any Utahn who wants it at no cost.
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Hayes, a married father of five, was not the first person associated with Tichelman to die of an overdose: Her former boyfriend, Dean Riopelle, was hospitalized in Milton, Georgia, for a heroin overdose in September 2013 and died a week later.
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Chris Christie, put out its long-awaited recommendations to deal with the nation's drug overdose crisis — just days after Trump declared a public health emergency over the epidemic, which contributed to the US's record 64,000 drug overdose deaths in 2016.
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The subsequent rise in heroin overdose deaths may have been enough, the researchers argued, to match or even outweigh any good that the reformulation of OxyContin did in terms of preventing painkiller overdose deaths — at least in the short term.
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As the Substance Use and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) puts it, not only do people deal with life-threatening trauma when they overdose, they also have to cope with the emotional aspects of overdose, which can involve embarrassment and shame.
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While prescription opioids like oxycodone or hydrocodone were considered to be driving factors in the increasing rates of overdose in the early part of the 2000s, heroin and illicit fentanyl have become the drivers for opioid overdose deaths in recent years.
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Heroin and illegally manufactured fentanyl are the two drugs most commonly involved in overdose deaths in the US. In 2016, fentanyl was involved in 28.8% of deaths while heroin was involved in a quarter of all overdose deaths that year.
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Another caveat: Opioid painkillers aren't the sole driver of overdose deaths in the US — particularly as illegal opioids, like illicit fentanyl and heroin, have taken off — though they're still involved in 40 percent of opioid overdose deaths, according to the study.
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After an overdose, narcotics detectives begin by noting any distinguishing marks on the heroin packaging — such as a stamp on the glassine bag — and poring over the cellphone records of the overdose victim to look for the source of the drugs.
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If this estimate held, Pardo told me, it would translate to almost 10,000 more synthetic opioid overdose deaths compared to 2017, or about a third more than the over 28,000 synthetic opioid overdose deaths (excluding methadone) that actually happened that year.
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And there is nothing in the budget to balance out the cuts — leaving a crater in the government's response to a crisis that led to more than 20153,000 opioid overdose deaths and more than 52,000 total drug overdose deaths in 2015.
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And he has been a vocal champion of efforts to address opioid addiction and overdose, even sharing with the nation that one of his own sons had nearly died of an overdose and that the family struggled to find him treatment.
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After overdose patients recover, Ms. Beal supplies them with Narcan, the overdose reversal drug, to carry with them and a test strip for fentanyl so they can at least make sure their street drugs are free of the deadly substance.
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Proponents say that because these laws have good Samaritan provisions — which protect from criminal consequence those who seek emergency medical assistance at the scene of a suspected drug overdose — they will not discourage people from calling 911 to report an overdose.
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Naloxone is an opioid overdose antidote that can literally save lives, yet in many states it can be hard to get because it requires a prescription — a big problem when an overdose can kill someone or do serious damage in minutes.
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As we've reported ... it appears the "16 and Pregnant" star died of an overdose.
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That the overdose epidemic would have this silver lining was not a forgone conclusion.
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It's only been possible due to the generosity of overdose victims and their families.
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Toxicology tests concluded that he died from an accidental overdose of the opioid fentanyl.
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Last night, a friend contacted me- his son died of an opioid overdose also.
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When administered quickly, naloxone helps reverse the effects of an overdose and saves lives.
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His only child, Della, died of a drug overdose at age 36 in 1998.
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Naloxone works to reverse overdose—but it still isn't available everywhere it is needed.
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Tom Petty's family has revealed the iconic rocker died of an accidental drug overdose.
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"The new Zara logo is a prime example of a kerning overdose," @johnluke_nyc tweeted.
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"I did your intervention while my guy died of a drug overdose," she cries.
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My beautiful son can't be dead from a heroin overdose — not my beautiful Zak.
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Increased deaths from suicide and drug overdose probably played a role in the decline.
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Overdose-related deaths have been on the rise all over Ohio and the nation.
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These deaths accounted for nearly a third of all overdose deaths that year.[GAO]
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She did not overdose, and an autopsy will determine her exact cause of death.
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The ongoing crisis of drug overdose deaths has made more organs available for transplant.
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A fatal overdose is "unlikely," according to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Bad batches of synthetic weed have led to mass overdose situations in the past.
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Farley left the series in 1995, and died of a drug overdose in 1997.
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That's particularly disturbing, given that Star and Simone's mother died of a drug overdose.
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Earlier in January, it was revealed that Petty died of an accidental drug overdose.
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"When a person dies of an overdose, the lungs fill with fluid," he said.
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Prince died in April of an accidental, self-administered overdose of an opioid painkiller.
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In 1970, she died of an accidental drug overdose at the age of 27.
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Incredibly potent synthetic opioids like fentanyl are also responsible for more drug overdose deaths.
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That works out to nearly one fewer person per month dying of an overdose.
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But it isn't just states with large rural populations reporting higher drug overdose rates.
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Now drug overdose deaths have spread across a more geographically diverse set of states.
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The national rate for drug overdose deaths was 16.3 per 100,000 people in 2015.
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Odom has been rebuilding his life after a near-fatal overdose in October 2015.
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CRANE: She lost her son Gabriel nearly four years ago to a heroin overdose.
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Last year, however, overdose deaths in Dayton fell to 292, nearly cut in half.
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Drug overdose deaths have climbed every year since the late '123s as a result.
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Unnamed sources told several media outlets that Prince was treated for a possible overdose.
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The number of overdose deaths outnumbers the county's automobile fatalities by 60%, she added.
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Lil Peep, born Gustav Ahr, died last November of an apparent overdose at 21.
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Upward of 80 people fatally overdose on opioids each day in the United States.
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Walley is also skeptical that deeper economic or social forces can explain overdose deaths.
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Last May, Kennecke's daughter, Emily, died due to an overdose of fentanyl-laced heroin.
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Mac Miller has reportedly passed away due to a drug overdose, according to TMZ.
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Nick Gordon died of a heroin overdose ... according to his autopsy and toxicology report.
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About 130 Americans a day die of an opioid-related overdose, the agency says.
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President Trump last year declared the US overdose crisis a national public health emergency.
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The Stanford researchers examined CDC data on opioid overdose deaths from 1999 to 2017.
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