Tag
overdose
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Dueling public health crises: Overdoses and firearm injuries a deadly combination in Indianapolis
Two years of data in Indianapolis show that 75% of census tracts in the city had both high rates of…
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Children in U.S. face rising risk of losing a parent to firearm violence or overdose
Drugs and firearms caused 23% of all parental deaths in the U.S. in 2020 compared to 12% in 1999, researchers…
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Mobile addiction services stop overdoses by meeting people where they are, panelists say
Reducing deaths from overdoses of fentanyl and other opioids requires stepping outside brick-and-mortar health clinics and taking substance use services…
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New data resource on opioids available in AHCJ’s medical studies topic area
Deaths from drug overdose in 2017 alone exceeded the total number of Americans who died during the entire Vietnam War,…
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Resources for covering insurance and its role in addiction treatment
Health care journalists covering addiction, overdoses, and the heroin epidemic are likely to learn that the health insurance system appears…
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FDA drug-monitoring system tricky, promising
Doctors Jerry Avorn and Sebastian Schneeweiss write in the New England Journal of Medicine that the Sentinel Network the FDA…