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(Healthcare IT News, December 11) As the nation struggles with soaring opioid addiction, the Food and Drug Administration is looking at new ways to cut down on the amount of painkiller prescriptions.
(The Associated Press, December 12) In 2016, 92,000 children were forced out of their homes and into the foster care system because of drug-addicted parents, according to government data.
(Reuters Health, December 11) People are more likely to get opioid prescriptions if someone else in their household has one, according to a U.S. study.
(CBSNewYork, December 6) – Two New York toddlers overdosed after ingesting heroin in separate incidents. Police were able to revive both girls with the anti-overdose drug Narcan.
(NPR, November 30) In states that have relaxed their marijuana laws in recent years, some emergency room doctors are seeing rise in an illness related to the drug.
(The Atlantic, November 29) The last photograph of my son Jonathan was taken at the end of a new-student barbecue on the campus green at the University of Denver.
(FoxNews.com, November 30) Rhode Island police charged the parents of an 8-month-old girl with felony neglect after the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl was found in the infant’s system.
(WMUR, November 20) If you look at the thousands of lives lost and families torn apart, the opioid addiction epidemic has had a devastating effect on the nation.