The Food and Drug Administration’s independent advisors on Wednesday unanimously recommended over-the-counter use of the nasal spray Narcan to reverse opioid overdoses, which would significantly...
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CVS And Walgreens $10 Billion Opioid Settlement Weighs Heavily On Black Community
BOSTON, MA – SEPTEMBER 11: April Mach, a pharmacist at Angell Animal Medical Center, empties a … [+] prescription bottle of opioid painkillers that she filled for a patient at the pharmacy...
White House Announces $1.5 Billion For Worsening Opioid Crisis
Topline The White House on Friday announced $1.5 billion in funding to tackle the nation’s opioid epidemic, a major public health crisis that reached record levels during the Covid-19 pandemic, exacts...
Opioids More Likely To Kill Than Car Crashes Or Suicide [Infographic]
The advent of Covid-19 has added another deadly disease to the National Safety Council’s list of the things that are most likely to kill Americans, but another detail on the newest release of th...
Economic Toll Of Opioid Epidemic: $1.3 Trillion A Year
The OnPoint NYC overdose prevention center. Photo by YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images Sam Rivera used to wake up every morning and brace himself for the inevitable call: another person found dead of ...
1.2 Million Opioid Overdose Deaths Expected In U.S. And Canada By 2029, Experts Warn
Topline More than 1.2 million people will die from opioid overdoses in the U.S. and Canada by 2029 if no action is taken to tackle the growing epidemic, warns a group of leading health experts on the ...
Drug Overdose Suicides Increasing Among Black Women, Young People And The Elderly
Topline Suicides by drug overdose are increasing among Black women, young people and the elderly, according to a new peer reviewed study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, despite an ove...