Another state declares an emergency over opioid addiction
Opioid addiction is a medical epidemic, a law-enforcement crisis and now officially an emergency in two states whose governors are taking steps to increase funding to fight it. Last week, Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency, allotting $27 million in funds for prevention and treatment services for opioid addiction. Florida followed Maryland, […]
CDC: Prescription Painkiller Overdose Deaths Have Quadrupled in US
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a new report yesterday showing U.S. deaths from prescription painkiller overdoses have quadrupled since 1999. In the report, drug-related poisoning jumped from 1.4 per 100,000 in 1999 to 5.4 per 100,000 in 2011. The drugs that account for the most deaths were semisynthetic opioid analgesics, such […]
Painkiller Overdose Deaths Are Rising, but Not Fast; Methadone Restrictions Credited
September 16, 2014 According to government officials, powerful painkillers overdose deaths are raising but slowly and this could have been caused by new restriction which has been put on methadone. There have been more than 41,000 drug overdose deaths across US which are up from 38000 in the preceding year. 50% of these deaths have […]
