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Opioid painkillers can kill patients too
That figure doesn't include the number of people who will become addicted to painkillers prescribed by their physicians, bought on the black market or pilfered from a friend or family member. “We don't know who is going to be addicted until it happens …
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School pushes for open talk about drug use
He started using marijuana but over time the drug didn't help him calm down, so he moved to something stronger, Opana (an opioid painkiller), Barber said. "Addiction takes over the entire family," Barber said. "My son never had the chance to have a …
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Dealing with drug overdose issue
John Kasich signed HB 170, enacted in response to a record high number of fatal overdoses from heroin or painkillers, in mid-March. The law allows law enforcement officers, friends or relatives of addicts, or emergency medical responders who aren't …
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Painkiller addiction can be a gateway to heroin
One in 15 people who take Rx painkillers for non-medical reasons will try heroin within the next 10 years; one young woman shares her story
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It's Scandalous to Keep Using Black Boxes in Airplanes Like MH370
In the end, nothing could happen without an international agreement on standards, and the only instrument capable of delivering that is the ICAO. To be fair, given the number of …. A great deal of ink has gone to speculating whether people who go …
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Viral Vid: Raining Food
I wrote a condolence note to the parents of one and received a brutally pained comment back months later from his mother: “We still can't understand what happened!” The number of drug- and … A great deal of ink has gone to speculating whether people …
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Activists seek help for addicts
Kimberly Wright (right), of Cold Spring, whose daughter is addicted to heroin, talks with Pennie Packett, of Taylor Mill, in the Naloxone clinic set up by People Advocating Recovery in Northern Kentucky on the eighth floor of the Kenton County …
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Bluefield woman gets 15 months for distributing hydromorphone
… United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Rachelle Bryant, 24, of Bluefield, West Virginia, was sentenced in federal court in Charleston today to fifteen months in prison for distributing hydromorphone, dangerous and addictive …
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J.B. Van Hollen: 'Take back' unused prescription drugs
Dear Editor: Like many Wisconsin parents, Julie never thought it could happen to her child. The mother of four from Menomonee Falls lost her 25-year-old son in early 2012 to a heroin overdose. But Tyler's addiction didn't start with heroin. His spiral …
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FDA cure may be worse than disease
That's how the cycle works these days: People get addicted to prescription drugs like Oxycontin and, when they can no longer afford those painkillers, they move along to heroin, which is considerably less expensive. It's been happening to such a degree …
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U.S. OKs overdose treatment to fight spike in painkiller deaths
Overdoses occur among those addicted to such painkillers but can also happen accidentally in patients using them legitimately to treat pain. The device is called Evzio and automatically delivers a set dose of naloxone, a drug ingredient already …
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Greater access to addiction treatment, support services for family, friends needed
Many expressed frustration with the limits insurance companies put on accessing treatment and the perceived trend of overprescribing painkillers. They also spoke of the need to change the perception that substance abuse and mental health are separate …
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Woman'S Bungled Crime Spree Nets Six Years In Prison
Tenney told probation she too is a drug addict, using methamphetamine, heroin and prescription painkillers. She aggravated her meth addition by using it … “I am sorry for what happened,” Tenney told Judge Peter Cahill. “I do have a drug problem and …
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Life-saving overdose antidote may become easy to buy
The constant worry that accompanies having a 25-year-old son addicted to heroin has taken a toll on the retired schoolteacher from a Sacramento suburb, who asked that her name not be used to protect her privacy. "What causes kids to be addicts …
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