In this study, which looked at all suspected self-poisonings from 2000 to 2018 in people ages 26.6 to 2295, there were 22018,2206,2137 poisonings and 22017,8773 deaths.
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The greatest increase was among teenage girls: Intentional poisonings among 16- to 17-year-olds and alcohol-related poisonings among 573- to 16-year-olds approximately doubled in number.
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When the authors examined intent behind the opioid poisonings, there were 2140 poisonings attributed to suicide or self-inflected injury among children younger than 22 from 83 to 28.
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And unfortunately, the researchers believe their findings are an underestimate, as there are sure to be poisonings that don't make it into the database, as well as poisonings misclassified as accidental.
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It found 17,862 reported poisonings -- almost 1.4% -- among that population.
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Among teens in the study, poisonings from heroin increased by 161 percent from 0.96 to 53 per 100,000 children, while poisonings involving methadone increased by 950 percent from 20.17 to 20.31 per 215,219 children.
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The latest poisonings have further inflamed tensions between London and Moscow.
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The council previously met on March 14 to discuss the poisonings.
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Russian authorities have denied that the poisonings are state-sanctioned terror attacks.
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The Russians have denied any involvement in the poisonings of the Skripals.
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Despite two poisonings, Bulgarian prosecutors failed to unearth any leads or evidence.
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Two more Osage died in the ensuing months, both of suspected poisonings.
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The poisonings have raised barely settled tensions between the U.K. and Russia.
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VICE: What are the most common types of poisonings and remedies for them?
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The male-dominated court was a swirl of intrigue, forced suicides and poisonings.
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Such poisonings can be deadly and can cause seizures, comas and respiratory arrest.
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Russia categorically denies involvement in either the Novichok poisonings or the election meddling.
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In denying its role in the poisonings, Russia has also satirized the episode.
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This could be hugely beneficial to public health and safety, since alcohol is a fairly dangerous drug linked to violent crimes, poisonings, and fatal accidents, while legal pot isn't linked to violent crimes or poisonings and less likely to cause accidents.
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Russia has been accused of everything from influence and propaganda operations via social media and pro-Kremlin outlets, to harassment, assassinations and the novichok poisonings in the UK. Those recent poisonings prompted increased intelligence gathering by British, US and allied services.
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There are drugs and sex and guns and plots and poisonings and electoral fraud.
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The UK government blamed the poisonings on Russian intelligence officers, which Moscow has denied.
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A spate of poisonings will almost certainly lead to the involvement of law enforcement.
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Witness, for example, how quickly the Kremlin's official line on the Skripal poisonings unravelled.
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Most of these poisonings happened in kids under three years old, the study found.
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But as we saw with the tragic lead poisonings of children in Flint, Mich.
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Britain has blamed Moscow for the poisonings, an accusation that the Kremlin has dismissed.
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British authorities believe that Russia was behind the poisonings, something that the Russian government denies.
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Russian critics in the UK have infamously fallen victim to a series of subtle poisonings.
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Facing hackers and poisonings, Western analysts have focused on the motivations of Russia's inscrutable president.
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One particular series of poisonings involved chronic exposure to tetraethyl lead from industrial laboratory work.
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A number of Western countries expelled dozens of Russian diplomats in response to the poisonings.
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The poisonings spread from provinces in northeastern Iran and near Tehran to the southern coast.
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The reports of poisonings in Guangxi gave examples of whole families overcome by carbon monoxide.
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More than 60 poisonings in 10 years There have been more than 60 poisonings in California over the last decade linked to homemade or unlabeled skin creams, though those all contained a less toxic form of mercury, the California Department of Public Health reported.
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During that 18-year span, the death rate for youth due to opioid poisonings nearly tripled.
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In fact, the total number of reported pod poisonings seems to have declined in recent years.
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Sheriff said giving people tools to better identify these fungi could help them prevent accidental poisonings.
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Both studies highlight the ease with which poisonings can take place right in front of you.
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The incidence of poisonings attributed to accidental intent increased by 82 percent from 0.17 to 0.31.
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Very few of these poisonings were fatal, but they represent an enormous amount of emotional trauma.
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But a big reason for the decrease was the rise in alcohol poisonings and drug overdoses.
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Accidental poisonings among young children and people suffering from dementia have been reported in recent years.
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During that 18-year span, the mortality rate for youth due to opioid poisonings nearly tripled.
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Both Novichok poisonings pointed to Russia, the only country known to have made and stored it.
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The tit-for-tat expulsions were the second such episode following geopolitically related poisonings in Britain.
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Even before the poisonings, market vendors in Novo-Lenino had noticed that residents were getting poorer.
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Researchers found that wounds, poisonings and infections of the gut and skin increase soon after storms.
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The A.S.P.C.A. poison center says that dogs account for about 95 percent of pet marijuana poisonings.
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The authorities in Bengkulu have adopted other strategies to stave off poisonings of elephants by farmers.
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We used the CDC's criteria for deaths involving all opioid poisonings, from both illicit and prescription drugs.
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Carbon monoxide poisonings are sometimes seen when people attempt to use generators indoors after a power outage.
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Some investigators believe that whoever is behind the poisonings gets a disturbed thrill from taking a life.
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During Prohibition in the 1920s, drinking was known to cause poisonings, abuse, criminality, and degeneracy in general.
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The poisonings prompted more than 20 countries to expel more than 100 Russian diplomats and intelligence officers.
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The best guide is former Johnson & Johnson CEO James Burke's response to the Tylenol poisonings in 1982.
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Britain has blamed Russia for the poisonings in England this year using Novichok, a military-grade nerve agent.
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The Trump administration joined other NATO countries in March in expelling dozens of Russian diplomats over the poisonings.
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Seven months after the poisonings occurred, they remain a point of bitter contention between Russia and the West.
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When the Poison Prevention Packaging Act was passed in 1970, childhood deaths from unintentional medication poisonings dropped dramatically.
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The alleged poisonings caused fallout between Moscow and London, with many UK allies weighing in against the Kremlin.
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According to the FDA, last year's cases involved a different brand of lambanog to the most recent poisonings.
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In the medical literature, the cases of fatal infant poisonings by breastfeeding are also few and far between.
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The improper disposal of medication can result in antibiotic resistance, pollution, child and pet poisonings and drug misuse.
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But he notes that people have allegedly used brodifacoum to commit chemical warfare and intentional poisonings throughout the years.
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Those include poisonings, unfortunate transfiguration, a racket (tennis equipment not acceptable), murder, kidnappings, plague and/or enhanced weather phenomena.
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Accidental poisonings increased 13 percent last year, he said, 97 percent of which came from drug overdoses and alcohol.
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That includes all potential alcohol deaths: liver cirrhosis, poisonings, crimes related to alcohol, driving while intoxicated, and so on.
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But increases in drug overdoses, suicide, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis, and alcohol poisonings pushed down the overall gains.
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He again criticized Russia as a nefarious actor, emphasizing its responsibility for the recent nerve-agent poisonings in England.
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While not all lead to newspaper headlines and multiple poisonings, forced marriages are a reality across much of Asia.
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Poisonings and unregulated hunting obliterated nearly all of these majestic canines from Canada to Mexico, their original home range.
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Commissioner Basu acknowledged "a great deal of speculation" over a possible connection to the March poisonings of the Skripals.
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Drownings, explosions, and poisonings, their ethical status barely mentioned, let alone chastised, roll by like carriages in the park.
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In contrast, intentional poisonings were 80% lower among boys, highlighting the need to focus on females wanting to harm themselves.
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An "exposure" could mean ingestion, inhalation, or absorption into the skin or eyes; not all exposures are poisonings or overdoses.
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Without all the beheadings, poisonings, and assassinations, Game of Thrones is missing a considerable percentage of its pivotal plot moments.
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Actually, accidental poisonings in toddlers and young children was such a problem that it led to a change in packaging.
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To assess trends in poisonings over time, researchers examined data from 13,052 pediatric hospitalizations due to ingestion of prescription opioids.
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"There are a lot of residential poisonings that occur because somebody has mixed bleach improperly with another chemical," she said.
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There are also the poisonings on British soil, Russian policies in Ukraine and Syria, and any number of other topics.
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Camille discovers her mother's crimes by talking to Jackie, the loudmouthed family friend who knew about Adora's poisonings all along.
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The bill comes after an outbreak of Tide Pod poisonings driven by the "Tide Pod Challenge" prevalent on social media.
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It is difficult to prosecute elephant poisonings and other wildlife crimes, which in Sumatra include tiger, orangutan and rhinoceros poaching.
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And hospitalizations and emergency department care for poisonings from opioids cost the United States more than $20 billion annually, HHS says.
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Opioids were involved in just 4 percent of the cases, and their use in poisonings has been decreasing in recent years.
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Video America and our European allies previously expelled 100 Russian diplomats over the poisonings and applied an earlier round of sanctions.
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Among injuries, those that are responsible for the greatest number of deaths are drug poisonings, gun injuries and motor vehicle crashes.
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Last year, accidental opioid poisonings killed over 3,000 people in Ohio — the highest number on record — up from 2,531 in 2014.
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One study also found that a growing number of children and adolescents in the United States are dying from opioid poisonings.
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She attributed the increase in poisonings among toddlers to parents or other adults in the household leaving pills within easy reach.
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The Moy Mir account was active even after the poisonings last spring, with the most recent login registered on July 19.
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"Most of these poisonings occur in the developing world where safe health standards can be inadequate or non-existent," the FAO said.
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In response to the poisonings, the UK expelled 23 Russian diplomats from London, and 20 other countries expelled Russian diplomats in solidarity.
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In this age group, poisonings are often related to self-harm and the underlying mental health issues that can lead to it.
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Now, a new study from the same researchers, published in Clinical Toxicology, has analyzed the substances most commonly used in those poisonings.
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In an effort to keep the number of pet poisonings down, the ASPCA releases a Top Toxins for Pets list each year.
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In rural areas, where 95 percent of regional venom poisonings and 97 percent of deaths can occur, that's either unavailable or inaccessible.
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So in that context, how should we be thinking about the Skripal poisonings, the election interference, the diplomat expulsions, and so forth?
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"Whites accounts for the largest and fastest-growing share of hospitalizations in recent years" related to opioid-related poisonings, the article said.
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London (CNN Business)RT faces potential penalties after Britain's media regulator ruled that its coverage of the Skripal poisonings breached impartiality rules.
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Sacramento County said that there have been 60 cases of poisonings involving skin creams contaminated with mercury in the last nine years.
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She entered the male-dominated Chinese royal court as a teenage concubine, swirling through a world of intrigue, forced suicides and poisonings.
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Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for President Vladimir V. Putin, said Russia had nothing to do with the poisonings.
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Some hospitals prefer not to use it in the emergency department and instead opt for more specific antidotes to poisonings and overdoses.
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"When we went to the data, it really indicated fentanyl," the report's lead author, R. Matthew Gladden, said of the deadly drug poisonings.
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Another related health risk: When people do access generators, they sometimes use them incorrectly; carbon monoxide poisonings often peak during extreme weather events.
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"Nicotine poisonings due to children ingesting e-cigarette liquid are becoming more frequent," Andrews, who wasn't involved in the study, said by email.
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The Salisbury poisonings exposed a potentially embarrassing lapse for the GRU, when the investigative website Bellingcat apparently unmasked the two GRU officers involved.
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Russia's foreign minister, Sergei V. Lavrov, on Friday denied that the government was involved in the poisonings, but offered assistance in the investigation.
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Ancient Rome came up with the consul system, two men who shared leadership, and that often ended with poisonings and throats artfully slit.
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But the Urban Institute researchers point out that an uptick in accidental poisonings — linked to prescription painkillers and heroin use — is a problem.
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Besides the threat of nicotine addiction, the agency is also concerned about a rise in e-liquid poisonings of children younger than six.
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In Britain, authorities are blaming Moscow for additional poisonings from the nerve agent that earlier sickened a former Russian spy and his daughter.
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When Putin opponents start dropping dead from poisonings, suspicious accidents and surprise heart attacks, the chronology is as damning as it is alarming.
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The United Kingdom ordered 23 Russian diplomats back to Moscow last week after the country concluded that Russia was responsible for the poisonings.
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According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, these deaths were predominantly a result of motor vehicle accidents and unintentional poisonings.
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More than two dozen countries moved this week to expel Russian officials from diplomatic outposts on their soil in retaliation for the poisonings.
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The Russian government has denied any role in the poisonings and has blamed the diplomatic expulsions on a "colossal blackmail" campaign by Washington.
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Elephants do not naturally die in pairs, so conservation groups immediately suspected that the deaths were the latest in a string of poisonings.
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Last month, doctors chronicled a spate of poisonings in northern California from late last year, where multiple people had mistakenly eaten the common fungi.
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"We know that poisonings worldwide are among the most common causes of death among young people," said Dr. Edward Tyrell, who led the study.
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Costa Rican authorities have responded to the poisonings by shutting down a number of businesses and rounding up 55,000 containers of potentially tainted alcohol.
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This increase for whites was largely accounted for by increasing death rates from drug and alcohol poisonings, suicide, and chronic liver diseases and cirrhosis.
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Asked about the poisonings at a news conference, Mr. Putin criticized "supervisory bodies" for failing to prevent the tragedy, but ultimately blamed unidentified foreigners.
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"Simply having more of the medications around increases the risk for accidental poisonings in the young and overdose in teens and adults," Gaither added.
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A 2014 review of reports of "Halloween sadism" found no children had died or been seriously injured from purported Halloween poisonings or planted razors.
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"Whatever foes this beautiful medieval city has faced, from the Celts to the Vikings the recent Novichok poisonings, it has emerged victorious," the newspaper wrote.
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Sheela, who had created a massive wiretapping network, ordered one act of arson, as well as multiple murders (none of which were completed) and poisonings.
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The 1982 Tylenol poisonings and reports of tainted candy led wary parents to keep their kids inside at parties — where they would chaperone, in costume.
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Out of 219,22011,218 cases of self-poisonings of people ages 10 to 25 from 2000 to 2018, 27.5 percent involved over-the-counter pain medications.
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These fuels contribute to asthma, allergies, cataracts, burns and poisonings, killing an estimated 215 million people per year worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.
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A study of use in Colorado published in 443 found increases in marijuana-related traffic deaths, hospital visits, school suspensions, lab explosions and pet poisonings.
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That shift drove the spike in the death rate, as there are more fatalities from opioid poisonings than from cases of mere dependence, Song wrote.
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The US State Department issued a warning to travelers, telling them to beware of bad alcohol and to seek medical help for any suspected poisonings.
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Can it deliver a spectacle — even in the face of reinforced sanctions, introduced after the Skripal poisonings — worthy of the superpower of its president's vision?
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The Russian government has rebuffed the accusations that it was behind the poisonings and blamed the U.S. for organizing a "colossal blackmail" campaign against Moscow.
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The same pesticide was responsible for the death of 23 schoolchildren in the eastern state of Bihar in 2013, one of India's worst mass poisonings.
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"Anytime it's linked to something with Russia, Bulgarian intelligence is very impotent," said Rosen Plevneliev, who was Bulgaria's president at the time of the poisonings.
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A July report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicated that the number of K2 poisonings rose sharply over the past year.
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Trump moved this week to expel 60 Russian officials from the U.S. in retaliation for the poisonings, joining a coordinated effort by two-dozen countries.
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MACCALLUM: But first, he must deal with the U.K. prime minister, embroiled in her own political death match and investigating alleged Russian poisonings on U.K. soil.
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However, an increase in people's tendency to report poisonings and improved record-keeping are also likely to be behind part of the increase seen over time.
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Both studies attributed the higher death rates to increases in poisonings and chronic liver disease, which mainly reflect drug overdoses and alcohol abuse, and to suicides.
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In its section on mushroom poisonings, The North American Mycological Society warns that morels can cause "upset" if they are eaten raw or aren't fully cooked.
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According to the FDA, kratom should be banned for its opioid-like qualities, its potential deadliness, and its link to 23 salmonella poisonings across the country.
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But diplomatic relations between Britain and Russia plummeted after the Skripal poisonings, which Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said had probably been personally ordered by Mr. Putin.
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The Russian government has denied any role in the poisonings in the U.K., and has accused the U.S. of running a "colossal blackmail" campaign against Moscow.
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The Russian government denies all involvement in the poisonings and has floated a number of self-exonerating theories such as a breach of security at Porton Down.
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Now 88,000 deaths each year are linked to alcohol, on top of the many non-deadly accidents, illnesses, and poisonings that occur as a result of booze.
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Despite the decreases in the proportion of suicides related to firearms and poisonings, these methods are still responsible for the largest number of suicide deaths, Curtin said.
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Of the unintentional drug poisonings identified in the study, more than half were due to toddlers having ingested methadone, the main drug prescribed for opiate substitution therapy.
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Research earlier this year showed Americans die younger than people in other high-income countries in large part due to drug poisonings, gun injuries and car accidents.
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E-cigarette poisonings in kids skyrocket, study finds Child labor common HRW urged tobacco companies to stamp out the use of child labor throughout their supply chains.
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Anne Case and Angus Deaton, both economists at Princeton University, roll opioid deaths together with alcohol poisonings and suicides into a measure they call "deaths of despair".
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Anne Case and Angus Deaton, two (married) economists at Princeton University, roll alcohol poisonings together with opioid deaths and suicides into what they call "deaths of despair".
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London (CNN Business)UK media regulator Ofcom has fined RT for repeatedly breaking impartiality rules in its coverage of the Skripal poisonings and the conflict in Syria.
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The latter had done work analyzing "the chemical agent connected to the poisonings of a former GRU officer and others in the United Kingdom," notes the indictment.
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While typically not traceable to any individuals and plausibly denied by government officials, poisonings leave little doubt of the state's involvement — which may be precisely the point.
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Although the residents of Antelope had very valid reasons to be pissed about the Rajneeshees even before all the poisonings took place, bigotry was clearly another factor.
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The researchers who identified the problem in a blockbuster study attributed the change to economic struggles and accidental poisonings — mainly caused by prescription painkiller and heroin use.
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While the motive behind the hacks involving anti-doping groups and organizations probing Russian poisonings were more clear-cut, the decision to target Westinghouse was less apparent.
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The poisonings of Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, blamed by Britain on Russian intelligence agents earlier this year, strained ties between the countries.
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The move follows hot on the heels of the U.K.'s decision to expel Russian diplomats after the country determined the Kremlin was responsible for the poisonings.
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Opioid deaths skyrocket among young people Studies have shown that a growing number of children, adolescents and young adults in the United States are dying from opioid poisonings.
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But that worry has mostly been focused on toddlers, who account for the vast majority of pod poisonings because they can mistake the colorfully designed products for candy.
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Preventable poisonings in children result in more than 60,000 emergency department visits and about 1 million poison center calls across the United States every year, the study notes.
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Those figures were pulled from a larger dataset of more than a million self-poisonings recorded in people ages 10 to 25 years old between 2000 and 2018.
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With children 4 years old and under, the rate of poisonings climbed from 0.86 per 100,23 kids to 2.62 per 100,000 by the end of the study period.
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And when Song looked at income, he found that patients in the lowest income quartile accounted for the biggest and fastest-growing share of hospitalizations for opioid poisonings.
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"Vladimir Putin does not deserve any benefit of the doubt here, given how commonplace political assassinations and poisonings have become under his regime," he said in a statement.
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They said their lives had been "turned upside down" as a result of being named as suspects in the poisonings and implicated in the murder of Dawn Sturgess.
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More than two dozen countries this week moved to expel more than 150 Russian diplomats from their borders in a coordinated effort to punish Moscow for the poisonings.
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Britain blamed Russia for the poisonings and identified the poison as Novichok, a deadly group of nerve agents developed by the Soviet military in the 1970s and 1980s.
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In " Dictators' Dinners: A Bad Taste Guide to Entertaining Tyrants," Victoria Clark and Melissa Scott offer astonishing insights into dictators' table manners, food vices, and fears of poisonings.
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Another study found that from 1999 through 2016, there were nearly 9,000 pediatric deaths attributed to opioids, with the mortality rate for youth due to opioid poisonings nearly tripling.
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"Vladimir Putin does not deserve any benefit of the doubt here, given how commonplace political assassinations and poisonings have become under his regime," said Rubio, a frequent Putin critic.
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The findings came from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, a database operated by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission that reports on injuries and poisonings involving consumer products.
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And they're also stories about women who insist on even ground, who fight for it and win it, even if it takes a few mild poisonings to get there.
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Professor of International Law at Lancaster University, James Sweeney, told CNBC Monday that it was becoming clearer that the U.K. is convinced Russia was responsible for the Salisbury poisonings.
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" Previous denial, diplomatic expulsion Putin has previously denied that Russia was behind the Novichok poisonings, saying in March that it was "unthinkable that we would do such a thing.
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Poisonings among kids under six years old surged from 2012 to 2015, when more than 8 children in every 100,000 in the population ingested liquid nicotine, the study found.
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The authorities did not provide details, saying only that they had not exhumed any bodies, but the forensic activities at the London Road Cemetery intensified speculation about the poisonings.
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Investigators say elephant poisonings are particularly tricky to prosecute, because elephant killers are generally not repeat poachers, but instead ordinary farmers fed up with having elephants maraud their plantations.
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A 2013 analysis by CDC of food poisoning cases between 1998 and 2008 found that leafy vegetables — salads and the like — caused almost a quarter of all food poisonings.
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The dog poisonings are only a symptom of a deeper sickness — a vague unease, a sense that all is not right in a place where everything's supposed to be perfect.
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Take a look back at some of the strangest science-related stories of this year, featuring everything from alleged meme-sparked poisonings to ludicrous medical quacks to unsettling parasitic infestations.
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Other common holiday emergencies involve accidental poisonings from say, boxed chocolates left under the tree, raisins in fruitcake dug out from the trash, or poinsettias and mistletoe decorating the house.
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The resignation is a big blow to Mrs May, who had looked, after her successful handling of the Salisbury poisonings, as if her luck was finally turning for the better.
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"Vladimir Putin does not deserve any benefit of the doubt here, given how commonplace political assassinations and poisonings have become under his regime," he said in a statement last week.
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However, during the time period Song looked at, "people enrolled in Medicare, not those in Medicaid, accounted for the fastest-growing share" of opioid-related hospitalizations related specificially to poisonings.
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The poisonings came months after a former Russian double agent, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter, Yulia Skripal, were found on a park bench after being exposed to the nerve agent.
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Trump announced on Monday that the U.S. would kick out 60 Russian officials believed to be intelligence agents and shutter the Russian consulate in Seattle in retaliation for the poisonings.
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Britain said this month it would review long-term visas of rich Russians after the March poisonings of a former Russian spy and his daughter in the English city of Salisbury.
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Troubled teens Researchers at the University of Nottingham found a steep rise in the number of deadly and non-deadly poisonings among teenagers in the UK over the past 22000 years.
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The study found a 22011% increase in the number of cases between 22001 and 22013, particularly among teenage girls, who had more than double the number of poisonings reported among males.
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In addition, 201 children were admitted into intensive care from accidental poisoning, with the majority of poisonings caused by tranquilizers used to treat anxiety and sleeping problems, methadone and other opiates.
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"The vast majority of opioid poisonings in young children - toddlers and preschoolers - are the result of unsupervised ingestions of medications prescribed for an adult (parent, grandparent) in the household," Gaither added.
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For teens ages 15 to 19, opioid poisonings attributed to suicide or self-inflicted injury increased by 140 percent, while those attributed to accidental intent roughly tripled in this age group.
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But they haven't been confined to the Prairie State: Maryland has had 20 reported poisonings, while Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin have all had six or fewer cases.
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According to the documentary, it was a war the Rajneeshees fought with mass poisonings, drugs, rigged elections, attempted assassinations, and an arsenal of assault weapons they practiced with on their land.
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Their push to boost sales, the lawsuit said, came even after staff showed family members on Purdue's board a map correlating suspected illegal prescribers and reports of opioid poisonings in 2011.
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Another study, published in JAMA, found that even accounting for motor vehicle traffic crashes, firearm-related injuries and drug poisonings, the United States has higher mortality rates than comparably wealthy countries.
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Apoteket AB, Sweden's biggest national pharmacy chain, has notified all staff to exercise caution in the sale of alcoholic disinfectants in respect to the rash of alcohol poisonings among young people.
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The largest increases in intentional poisonings were found in females aged 16 to 17, with poor girls from deprived backgrounds overwhelmingly more likely to poison themselves than their more economically privileged peers.
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Links between poor health and poverty are widely acknowledged, and one key finding of the study was that links between poisonings and poverty didn't change at all over the 20-year period.
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Among teens, the new study also finds that self-poisonings seem to be more prevalent during the school year, and the risks seem to be greater in rural areas than urban areas.
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Annually, the rate of these opioid poisonings among youth up to 193 years old surged from 1.4 per 100,000 children in 1997 to 3.71 per 100,000 kids by 2012, the study found.
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Every day we go without a ban, children and farmworkers are eating, drinking and breathing a pesticide linked to intellectual and learning disabilities and poisonings, the groups said in a joint statement.
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YouTube quickly began removing videos of teens appearing to consume the pods, but in January 2018 alone, the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) reported 86 poisonings related to the challenge.
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"Every day we go without a ban, children and farmworkers are eating, drinking and breathing a pesticide linked to intellectual and learning disabilities and poisonings," the groups said in a joint statement.
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The GRU, according to the US and Western governments, has been front and center in campaigns to influence foreign elections, the Russian intervention in eastern Ukraine, and the Salisbury nerve-agent poisonings.
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As I've reported, a 2013 analysis by CDC of food poisoning cases between 1998 and 2008 found that leafy vegetables — salads and the like — caused almost a quarter of all food poisonings.
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Do these little things to prevent animal injuries Millions of wild animals are killed or injured every year in the US due to human causes -- from traffic, to habitat destruction, to poisonings.
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There are the devotees, who reread particular titles for comfort, flock to online chat rooms to revisit favorite poisonings and confer with fellow obsessives over the merits of respective portrayers of Poirot.
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If the US expels more Russian diplomats, in alignment with how the UK has responded to the poisonings, it would be expected that Russia would respond in kind, according to the sources.
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Russian media has floated nearly every conceivable reason for the poisonings, including the idea that it was perpetrated by British authorities to make the Russians look bad—a so-called "false flag" attack.
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Itturned up recently in heroin seized in Cincinnati, and it has also been linked to overdoses in Kentucky, Florida, and Akron, Ohio, which saw 230 drug poisonings — 20 of them fatal — in July.
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In children ages 231 to 22016, the incidence of poisonings attributed to suicide or self-inflicted injury increased by 37 percent from 0.62 per 100,000 in 1997 to 0.85 per 313,000 in 2012.
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There's been some poisonings, but they've got to clean it up now and figure out a way to do what they do and grow how they want to grow without continually doing this.
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Then amid tighter regulations requiring tamper resistant liquid nicotine packaging, poisonings became less common among young kids from 2015 to 2016, when slightly more than 8 kids in every 100,0000 ingested liquid nicotine.
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Dr. Gaither said poisonings attributed to prescription opioids were now the leading cause of "injury-related mortality" in the United States, largely because of the wider use of the drugs in households nationwide.
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Over the last nine years, there have been over 60 poisonings linked to a foreign brand, unlabeled, or homemade skin creams that contained toxic chemicals like mercury, mercurous chloride or calomel in California.
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They involve poisonings and hangings and brutal beatings, often administered by those nearest and dearest to their victims, which are described here with the same queasy casualness as the rest of the gossip.
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We learned to recognize the way bullets will stipple the skin while entering the body versus exiting and how the body looks after poisonings, deaths in custody, bludgeonings, car accidents, hypothermia, hyperthermia, fire.
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If you haven't watched Wild Wild Country, I'll summarize: It's the story of a spiritual community (ahem, cult) gone deeply astray, replete with a militia, private jets, machine guns, murder attempts, and mass poisonings.
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What they did: The researchers examined death certificates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for children and adolescents who died from opioid poisonings with prescription and illicit drugs during that time period.
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There's no sign as of yet that the U.S. and allies' punitive sanctions towards Russia, or 28 countries' expulsion of some 342 diplomats in the wake of the Skripal poisonings, have settled things down.
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"All three major problems we know are modifiable, and targeted well-informed effective policies can make a great difference," especially as most drug poisonings are due to prescription drug overdoses, Fischer told Reuters Health.
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Also in parliament, Tom Tugendhat, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, highlighted a pattern of Russian behaviour in poisonings and noted 14 events investigated by Buzzfeed, link here, 14 events linked to Russian elements.
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Westeros is full of Lannister enemies, and, through six seasons, the show has proven that even a helicopter mom can't prevent the poisonings of her son, the king, or her daughter, the exiled princess.
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Whoever takes Huntsman's place will have to deal with tense and confusing Russia-US relations at a time of election interference fallout, attempted poisonings and an inscrutable friendship between the countries' two leaders. 3.
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The number of acute poisonings from synthetic cannabinoids rose sharply between 2010 and 2015, according to a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2016.
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But, you know, the very robust reaction that we had from President Trump to the Salisbury poisonings shows that President Trump understands that we cannot have Russian aggression as a regular part of our world.
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Tide PodsPhoto: APKicking off 240, troll-y memes about the deliciousness of Tide Pods began sprouting up across social media, and some adults actually began to worry about a widespread epidemic of laundry detergent poisonings.
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Ricin is shockingly easy to find – but it can actually be difficult to cook up into a powder that someone might inhale, Erika Check Hayden reported for Nature after the attempted poisonings of President Obama.
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IN 1203, FOLLOWING a string of serious incidents involving lead and cadmium poisonings in various parts of the country, the Chinese government named contamination by heavy metals as the country's number one environmental health problem.
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It appears to be specifically tasked with irregular operations directed at Europe, including a failed coup in Montenegro and the attempted poisonings of an arms dealer in Bulgaria and a GRU defector in Salisbury, England.
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While reducing costs and increasing access to medication treatment to those with opioid-use disorder should remain top priorities, some jurisdictions will probably want to do even more to address rising overdoses and fentanyl poisonings.
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But while government officials have accused the Kremlin of responsibility for the first poisonings, until Monday they refrained from assigning blame for the second, though they acknowledged a strong possibility that the two were related.
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" "What struck us is over the last year we've seen a dramatic increase in synthetic cannabinoid poisonings," said Dr. Jeffrey Brent, one of the authors of Thursday's report published in the "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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Earlier this month, Vladimir Kara-Murza, the Russian democracy activist and survivor of two poisonings that took place in Moscow, spoke out for Pichugin and all Russian political prisoners at the United Nations Human Rights Council.
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Looking at data gathered every three years from 25 through 217, they identified 303,230 instances in which children and teenagers ages 26 to 29 had been hospitalized for prescription opioid poisonings; 176 of them had died.
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The lawsuit alleges the push to boost sales came even after Purdue's staff showed him and other family members on the company's board a map correlating suspected illegal prescribers and reports of opioid poisonings in 2011.
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He even professes some admiration for a 1980s cult led by an Indian guru, whose plans to build a utopian community in Oregon were undone by his staff's penchant for mass poisonings and assassination plots. Lunacy?
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That's among the many questions raised by a bustling production from the director John Crowley that recaps a grievous piece of recent history while pointing to our uncertain times: Other poisonings have followed the one recounted here.
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CCTV image released by British police showing Novichok poisoning suspectsImage: UK Met PoliceThe Kremlin strongly denies any involvement in the Skripal poisonings and has floated a number of different conspiracy theories about who the real perpetrators might be.
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Types of deaths that must go to San Juan for review include crime victims, poisonings, suicides, accidental deaths, cremations, nursing home deaths and children's deaths, among others, according to a 2017 law that established new guidelines for forensics.
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Looking at the numbers Of the 8,986 children and adolescents who died from opioid poisonings over the 5003-year period, 6,567 (about 73%) were male and 7,921 (about 88%) were adolescents ranging in age from 15 to 19.
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Back home, Ryan falls in with his high school crowd, many of whom are still in high school, becoming an accidental witness to incest, murder, suicide, attempted poisonings, extreme drug taking and a couple of scuppered teenage weddings.
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According to an internal F.D.A. memo, the agency and the industry group held several teleconferences in 303 to discuss plans to study adverse events in patients who were not opioid-tolerant, as well as accidental poisonings of children.
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Now Western security and intelligence officials say the Bulgaria poisonings were a critical clue that helped expose a campaign by the Kremlin and its sprawling web of intelligence operatives to eliminate Russia's enemies abroad and destabilize the West.
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The investigative website Bellingcat this week published what it said was the identity of one of the Russian agents allegedly involved in the nerve agent poisonings in March that left Sergei Skripal and his daughter hospitalized for weeks.
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A 2016 study from researchers from the University of Nottingham found that poisonings increased in the UK by 27 percent in the four years between 2007 and 2012 when compared to the same time frame between 1992 and 1996.
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GERMANTOWN, N.Y. (Reuters) - A dozen wild food foragers listened intently to botanist Hayden Stebbins in an upstate New York field, entrusting him to steer them clear of the poisonings and arrests that have plagued others across the United States.
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He has made a succession of unforced errors that hurt deeply, not least asking for the Russians to be called in to help investigate the poisonings in Salisbury, and dragging his feet over investigating anti-Semitism in the party.
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As scary as 153 Carbon Black sounds, it actually has a wide range of medical benefits, from treating poisonings to drug overdoses and is available over-the-counter in pill form in numerous countries as a remedy for gassiness and indigestion.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin at a press conference in Helsinki, Finland with President Donald Trump on July 16, 2018Photo: GettyBritish police have reportedly identified two suspects in the nerve agent poisonings that left one person dead and three others injured.
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Though Sheela leads a vastly different life than the one she did with Rajneeshpuram (a life that seems wholly positive, with zero salmonella poisonings in play) it's worth noting that Sheela is still managing lives, just as she did in Oregon.
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We cannot tolerate a world where mothers and infants are separated by armed men in uniform, where assassinations and poisonings against civilians are considered an acceptable instrument of state power, or where desperate refugees and migrants are left helpless and vulnerable.
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The Trump administration has sanctioned Russian oligarchs and firms for interfering in the 2016 election and joined more than a dozen countries this year when the United States expelled 60 Russian officials as punishment for Russian poisonings in the United Kingdom.
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In a groundbreaking paper published last year, Princeton University professor Anne Case, and her husband, Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton, spotlighted a surprising rise in deaths of middle-age white Americans driven by drug-related poisonings, liver disease, and suicides.
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Britain has blamed Moscow for the poisonings, an accusation that the Kremlin has continually mocked and rejected, and the dispute precipitated a series of expulsions of diplomats between the two countries and beyond, as Britain's allies rallied to its side.
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Now, some survivors and their families are suing three big chemical makers in France to recover hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid damages awarded to them by courts in Nicaragua, where many of the poisonings of banana workers occurred.
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The revelation that he was connected to the poisonings in both England and Bulgaria was critical in helping Western officials conclude that these were not one-off Russian attacks but rather part of a coordinated campaign run by Unit 29155.
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"The common thread that joins the poisonings in Salisbury with the annexation of Crimea, the cyberattacks in Ukraine, the hacking of Germany's Parliament and Russian interference in foreign elections is the Kremlin's reckless defiance of essential international rules," he writes.
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Eliot Higgins, the founder of Bellingcat, told CNN Business that the site was not planning to report on the Skripal poisonings but decided to investigate when UK authorities released what they said were the fake identities of the two suspects.
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GERMANTOWN, N.Y., May 17 (Reuters) - A dozen wild food foragers listened intently to botanist Hayden Stebbins in an upstate New York field, entrusting him to steer them clear of the poisonings and arrests that have plagued others across the United States.
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For teens aged 15 to 1403, the rate of poisonings surged from 3.69 per 100,000 at the start of the study to 10.17 per 100,000 by the end, fueled in part by overdoses involving heroin and methadone, researchers report in JAMA Pediatrics.
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While a handful of fatal fentanyl-related overdoses were reported in the San Francisco Bay area last year, the scope of the current wave of poisonings and deaths in and around Sacramento is unprecedented for the West Coast, DEA spokeswoman Cassie Rettig said.
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Americans between the ages of 15 and 24 are more likely to die in a traffic crash than in any other type of accident, including drug overdoses and other poisonings, according to 2017 figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Trump's endorsement of the Russian President over his own intelligence services and his failure to confront Putin on key issues such as Crimea and the Novichok poisonings in the UK signaled to many that he was giving Putin carte blanche to do what he wants.
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For men, about half of the life-expectancy gap was attributable to injury deaths, including 21 percent of it due to firearm deaths, 14 percent to legal and illicit drug poisonings and 13 percent to motor vehicle crashes, according to the results in JAMA.
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LONDON — The police scoured the area around Salisbury, England, for a container of a deadly chemical weapon on Monday, as high-ranking British officials suggested for the first time that Russia was probably responsible for a second set of nerve agent poisonings in the region.
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But it's a first for the UK government to make a link and public accusation of Russia for the attacks — likely intended to keep up geopolitical pressure on president Putin in the wake of the Sailsbury poisonings which it has also previously linked to two GRU agents.
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To improve pesticide management and avoid serious poisonings, the FAO is calling on countries to adhere to an "International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management," a voluntary framework that promotes best practices to prevent and reduce exposure to pesticides during handling, storage, transport, use, and disposal.
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The Russian intelligence agency, GRU, is also accused of directing cyberattacks against a nuclear energy company in Pennsylvania; the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in the Hague, Netherlands; and a chemical laboratory in Switzerland that was part of the investigation into poisonings in the United Kingdom.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - At least 42 drug overdoses in the past two weeks have been reported in northern California, 10 of them fatal, in what authorities on Monday called the biggest cluster of poisonings linked to the powerful synthetic narcotic fentanyl ever to hit the U.S. West Coast.
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That's a 280 percent fatality rate, versus the 2000 percent fatality rate for poisonings in the US. Just as the omnipresence of guns in the US makes our suicide problem worse, the omnipresence of pesticides in South and East Asia has contributed to their suicide problem as well.
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Women are dying by suicide more often these days, their obesity rate is climbing while men's is plateauing, they're now dying of lung cancer and accidental poisonings at a faster rate than ever before, and they're much more likely to die during childbirth than they were in the early 1990s.
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Poisonings include overdoses of drugs such as opioids, which are a growing problem in the US. Substance abuse was a factor in 28% of suicides in the 27-state analysis, Schuchat said, but it can also be difficult to determine whether an overdose was accidental or a means of suicide.
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"Trends we see in teens mirror what we've seen in adults - an increase in accidental overdoses (poisonings) from either taking an opioid as prescribed or, increasingly, using opioids for purposes other than to treat pain, including to get high or to enhance the effects of alcohol or other drugs," Gaither noted by email.
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BEIJING — A rash of gas poisonings in a region of southern China has left at least 104 people dead and hundreds more hospitalized so far this year, according to government offices quoted in the state-run news media, which blamed poorly ventilated or faulty water heaters and cooking stoves for the deaths.
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"We would like the British side to share with us the information regarding the type of substance used and the correlation between this incident and other mysterious poisonings happening in the vicinity of the secret military chemical laboratory in Porton Down," it said in a statement posted on its website before Saturday's police statement.
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"I believe that the two-fold increase in hospitalization rates over time for opioid poisonings in children are a direct consequence of the increasing reliance in the U.S. on opioid analgesics to treat acute and chronic pain," said lead study author Dr. Julie Gaither, a public health researcher at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump could decide as soon as Monday whether to take the National Security Council's recommendation to expel a group of Russian diplomats from the US in response to the poisonings of a former Russian double agent and his daughter in England, a source with knowledge of the situation told CNN.
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" There were other signs that the reformulation had made an impact, according to the paper: "A number of national time series including shipments of oxycodone (a proxy for consumption), prescriptions for oxycodone, the fraction of people that use pain medicine recreationally, and health care encounters for heroin poisonings all show a trend break in August, 2010 or immediately thereafter.
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Van Ermengem's research was the catalyst necessary to begin solving the problem; a team lead by Karl F. Meyer at the Hooper Foundation in San Francisco became dedicated to isolating, extracting, and inactivating the toxin, and they soon succeeded, thus preserving the integrity of the entire canning industry and preventing the poisonings of thousands of people.
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Mr. Trump did not mention factors that are usually cited in the West as causes for friction with Moscow: Russia's annexation of Crimea, its support for rebels in Ukraine and for the Assad regime in Syria, its meddling in the elections of the United States and in those of other countries, and the nerve agent poisonings in England.
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The unit is believed to be the home of an elite unit of former Russain special forces members tasked with eliminating Russia's enemies abroad and was specifically implicated in two poisonings — of a Bulgarian arms dealer in 2015 and in the 2018 poisoning of Sergei Skripal, a former GRU officer who defected to the UK, in Salisbury.
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In Oregon, Rajneesh followers were eventually implicated in the poisoning of restaurant patrons in The Dalles, the seat of Wasco County, with salmonella, and the attempted poisonings of two Wasco County commissioners, in a plot to gain control of the Wasco County Commission so that the incorporation of the city Rajneeshpuram, which Rajneesh megalomaniacally aspired to build, would be approved.
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The American Association of Poison Control Centers even went so far to issue a strong warning about the "recent trend among teenagers," citing its own data showing that there were 22019 reports of intentional laundry pod poisonings among people between the ages of 13 to 19 in the first half of January—a toll about as high as the number of cases reported in 2016 alone.
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Still, the episode has escalated tensions between Russia and the U.K. British Prime Minister Theresa MayTheresa Mary MayPence to travel to United Kingdom, Ireland and Iceland in September Pelosi vows no UK free trade deal if Brexit undermines Good Friday accord Huawei beefs up lobbying amid Trump crackdown MORE moved this week to expel 23 Russian diplomats from the U.K. in response to the poisonings.
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There was one lab we visited that was doing contract work for Pfizer, and I asked them if they could offer a chemical called MDMB-FUBINACA that had been implicated in a lot of deaths in Russia, and the chemist that was working there scolded me for even asking about it because she was following the news and was aware that it had been implicated in these fatal poisonings.
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Women are committing suicide more often these days; they're much more likely to die during child birth than they were in the early 1990s Women are committing suicide more often these days, they're much more likely to die during child birth than they were in the early 1990s, their obesity rate is climbing while men's is plateauing, and they're now dying of lung cancer and accidental poisonings at a faster rate than ever before.
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Firearms, poisonings and vehicle crashes were responsible for a total of 6 percent of deaths among men and 3 percent of deaths among women in the U.S. "Against what people would commonly expect, life expectancy in the U.S. is considerably reduced compared to many other countries," said Benedikt Fischer of the Center for Applied Research in Mental Health and Addiction at Simon Fraser University in Toronto, Canada, who was not part of the new study.
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Unintended carbon monoxide poisonings predictably follow storm-related power outages of this magnitude, in large part because people can't tell when carbon monoxide is in the air, noted Dr. Kelly Johnson-Arbor of Georgetown University School and the National Capital Poison Center in Washington, D.C. "You can't see it, taste it, or smell it, but it can kill you or cause long-term brain damage - it is one of the most common causes of unintentional death in the United States," Johnson-Arbor said by email.
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The Heroes Health Fund website offers a general overview of its treatment, which comes straight out of Hubbard's methodology: There are appropriate uses of the term detoxification, such as when treating severe poisonings in emergency situations, but Hubbard's use of the term instead describes the removal of "often unspecified" environmental chemicals responsible for varied health problems, says William M. London, a professor in the Department of Public Health at Cal State LA. "This kind of fashionable nonsense is often promoted with euphemisms such as 'holistic,' 'alternative,' and 'integrative' medicine," says London.
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