Camden police have saved nearly 40 overdose victims using Narcan
on September 15, 2014 at 4:36 PM, updated September 15, 2014 at 4:49 PM Camden County Police Department Officers Edwin Cortez and Benjamin Patti have saved the lives of three more drug overdose victims over the last week using Narcan, authorities reported. On Sunday, Sept. 7, just before 2 p.m., Cortez responded to the corner […]
CDC: Drug overdose deaths spiked 21 percent last year, 64K deaths
Sept. 4 (UPI) — Drug overdose deaths in the United States skyrocketed 21 percent in 2016 from the previous year, accounting for the deaths of approximately 64,000 people, according to numbers from the Centers for Disease Control. Several states saw drug overdose death increases in the double digits, including Virginia (38 percent increase), Florida (55 […]
Emerging Rapper Lil Peep Dies at Age 21
ENTERTAINMENT – His emo- and rock-influenced music attracted a large online audience. 11/16/2017 10:01 am ET Updated 4 days ago By Ron Dicker Lil Peep, a promising crossover rapper who recently released his first full-length album, died Wednesday night, just hours before he was to perform in Tucson, Arizona, according to reports. He was […]
Grandmother, 69, Dies After Cleaning Up Scene of Son’s Suspected Overdose
Inside Edition Staff Inside Edition November 16, 2017 A Pennsylvania family lost two of its members in a matter of days after investigators say a grandmother died after cleaning up the scene of her own son’s suspected fatal overdose. The Cambria County Coroner believes 69-year-old Theresa Plummer likely absorbed a substance she came into contact with […]
Learning to overpower overdoses: Topsfield EMTs receive naloxone training
Posted Sep. 18, 2014 @ 3:30 pm BOXFORD By Anna Burgess [email protected] Topsfield firefighters are now fully equipped to deal with any narcotic overdose that may come their way. Last Monday, Fire Captain Jen Collins-Brown led a comprehensive training session for all 30 EMT firefighters in town to learn how and when to administer the […]
Opioid overdoses shorten US life expectancy by 2½ months
By Nadia Kounang, CNN Updated 12:33 PM ET, Tue September 19, 2017 (CNN)Opioid drugs — including both legally prescribed painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, as well as illegal drugs such as heroin or illicit fentanyl — are not only killing Americans, they are shortening their overall life spans. Opioids take about 2½ months off […]
Overdose, alcohol deaths cast dark shadow on American life expectancy
By David Heitz Despite medical advances, the American life expectancy dipped from 2014 to 2015 due to the nation’s opioid, alcohol crises. Between 2000 and 2015 in the U.S., life expectancy increased overall. But from 2014 to 2015, we began to slide backward. The data places the blame squarely at the feet of painkiller and […]
Stopping America’s Hidden Overdose Crisis
Sept. 16th, 2014 Fatal overdoses of prescription drugs are on the rise, but patchwork laws make them tough to stop The woman who showed up in the emergency room of Boston Medical Center with a life-threatening apparent overdose of painkillers was contrite. She promised to follow a plan to ease her pain with medications that […]
Three things you need to know about drug overdoses
14 September 2014, 9.21pm PST In 2012, 103,000 people around the world lost their lives to drug poisoning or overdose. As terrible as this waste of life seems, it’s important to remember that drug overdoses are not inevitably fatal. An overdose is when there’s too much of a drug (or combination of drugs) in the […]
The Top 5 Most Overdosed Drugs
By David Heitz By now, we all know that hundreds of people in America are dying of drug overdose every single day. We also know that most of it is from opioids, which come in a range of formulations from painkillers like hydrocodone to heroin. But which opioids and other drugs, specifically, are people overdosing […]
