The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been accused of bowing to drug industry pressure after releasing new guidelines that doctors say put lives at risk by rowing back on warnings about the dangers of opioid prescribing. “The United States already has the highest per capita opioid prescriptions in the world, and our…
Neither CVS nor Walgreens is admitting wrongdoing… and a lawyer said Walmart is in discussions for a deal. CVS Health and Walgreen Co. announced agreements in principle Wednesday [Nov. 2, 2022] to pay about $5 billion each to settle lawsuits nationwide over the toll of opioids… the proposed pacts bring a nationwide tally of finalized…
The Eugene Police Department seized an estimated 18 pounds of suspected fentanyl… in what the department says is the largest fentanyl seizure in its history. The pills were a mixture of blue- and rainbow-colored, according to photos of the seized drugs from EPD. The seizure comes five months after EPD reported the department’s previous largest…
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Director, Dr. Nora Volkow, and former National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director and recently named “Science Advisor to the President,” Dr. Francis S. Collins recognized in 2017, America’s gateway drugs are pharmaceutical opiods. With millions of Americans struggling with opioid use disorder and thousands overdosing on fentanyl every year,…
Just a quarter of a milligram – 0.25 milligrams – can kill you. For a sense of just how little that is, a typical baby aspirin tablet is 81 mg. If you cut that tablet into 324 pieces, one of those pieces would be equal to a quarter-milligram. In the year ending in April 2019,…
Governor… announced new efforts state leaders would take… as nearly 1,700 deaths involving fentanyl were reported in the state in 2021. Austin, Texas, also installed its first Narcan vending machine last month, providing 24/7 access… Original Article (KXAN):Gov… issues order designating Mexican cartels as terrorist organizationsArtwork Fair Use: Public Domain
It was only a matter of time until fentanyl… marketed the way designer drugs are, as colorfully branded pills and in other forms. There’s no other way to look at what’s happening in the United States with opioids as anything other than an epidemic. In fact, according to NIDA’s data, deaths involving synthetic opioids other…
Approximately five Oregonians die every week from an opioid overdose. Currently, funds from the settlements will be divided amongst local governments and the state, with the latter receiving a smaller portion at 45%. This wasn’t always the case. The state originally intended to keep 85% to have more centralized control, but Lane and other counties…
On Thursday [3/10/2022], speakers are likely to make “unbelievably searing, difficult” statements, Marshall Huebner, an attorney for Purdue, said in a related hearing the day before. The court-appointed mediator requested that no member of the Sackler family be allowed to respond to comments made by victims during the hearing. It’s slated to begin at 10…
A group of synthetic opioids called nitazenes, even more powerful than fentanyl in some of its forms, has begun to emerge… Forensic experts have found that the syringes used in some overdoses contain a potent synthetic opioid class – nitazenes – which is up to 20 times more powerful than fentanyl – a drug that…
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