The New York Times5d
How Fentanyl Drove a Tsunami of Death in America
The good news is that recent data suggests a decline in overdose deaths, the first significant drop in decades. But this is not a uniform trend across the nation. To understand this disparity ...
Forbes6d
Ozempic May Decrease Opioid Overdose Risk, Study Suggests: What To Know
Ozempic may lower the risk of opioid overdose in patients with Type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests, the latest research to find a positive connection between the diabetes drug and another ...
Reason7d
Recent Overdose Trends Underline the Folly of the War on Drugs
"We took the drug and fentanyl crisis head on, and we achieved the first reduction in overdose deaths in more than 30 years," Trump brags, referring to the 4 percent drop between 2017 and 2018 ...
CBS News13d
Opioid deaths now lowest in 3 years, but still worse than pre-pandemic
Opioid overdose deaths have dropped to the lowest they have been in three years, new estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest, in the wake of a record surge of ...
Cellphone outage affecting Verizon users. Here's why your phone says SOS
Verizon users were experiencing an outage on Monday morning, causing many to see the SOS icon. Here's what it means.
Benzinga.com6d
Popular Ozempic May Have New Use As Semaglutide Drugs Linked To Reduced Overdose Risk In Diabetic Opioid Users
Study links semaglutide drugs to significantly lower opioid overdose risk in type 2 diabetes patients with opioid use disorder. Over 33,000 patients were studied, showing reduced overdose rates ...
UPI7d
Study: Ozempic might lower risk of opioid overdose
In a finding that suggests Ozempic and Wegovy have powers that extend beyond weight loss, a new study finds the medications might also lower people's risk of opioid overdose. People with Type 2 ...
The Boston Globe6d
Woonsocket’s non-fatal overdoses now more than twice R.I.’s statewide rate
“In the past six months, the Woonsocket community has had a significantly higher rate of overdose burden that is more than twice the statewide average,” the department said in a statement.
The Virginian-Pilot5d
Old newspaper boxes are being used to distribute the overdose reversal drug Narcan
Today, reach into one of his containers and you may find something entirely different and free of charge: Naloxone, the opioid overdose reversal drug. Naloxone distribution containers have been ...
Medscape19d
One in Five Overdose Deaths in 2022 Had an Unrelated Mental Illness
In 2022, nearly 22% of people who died of drug overdose had a non–substance-related mental health disorder (MHD), new data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ...
WAPT25d
Investigation underway after inmate dies of apparent overdose at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility
SHARES WHAT UNFOLDED AFTER DEPUTIES RESPONDED TO A CALL OF A POSSIBLE OVERDOSE. 27-41 < AUTHORITIES SAY A HAZARDOUS MATERIALS TEAM WAS CALLED TO THE CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI CORRECTIONAL FACILITY TO ...