Category: Opioids
More Babies Are Being Born With Syphilis. Blame Meth and Opioids.
Editor’s note: This article was updated Feb. 26 to show that 18 states, including Michigan, have screening requirements in a woman’s third trimester for all pregnancies or for those considered at high risk of infection. Alayna Alvarez Edittorial Assistant, Stateline Some…
Two Crises In One: As Drug Use Rises, So Does Syphilis
By Anna Gorman, California Healthline Public health officials grappling with record-high syphilis rates around the nation have pinpointed what appears to be a major risk factor: drug use. “Two major public health issues are colliding,” said Dr. Sarah Kidd, a…
Pay Attention to This Little-Noticed Opioid Lawsuit in Oklahoma
The trial will for the first time provide access to evidence aimed at showing that drug companies flooded markets with opioids, knowing that they were addictive.
What ‘Dope Sick’ Really Feels Like
Detoxing off heroin or opioids without medication is sheer hell. I should know.
Making opioid pill harder to abuse may have led to more injection drug use
Reformulation of the OxyContin to make it more difficult to abuse directly led to a large rise in hepatitis C infections as drug abusers to injectable heroin
America’s overdose epidemic projected to get worse
The annual number of opioid overdose deaths will increase to 81,700 in 2025, the study projects.
How one family allegedly made fortune on opioids
The first 9 months of 2013, Purdue Pharma, the maker of the addictive opioid pain drug OxyContin, paid the Sackler family $400 million from its profits
OxyContin Maker Explored Expansion Into “Attractive” Anti-Addiction Market
Purdue Pharma considered capitalizing on the addiction treatment boom — while going to extreme lengths to boost sales of its controversial opioid.
Officials warn drug users to beware after overdoses rise in north Seattle
Seven overdoses were reported January 17th. Some victims reported injecting heroin and others snorting a crushed pill that may have been fentanyl.
Meth’s Resurgence Spotlights Lack Of Meds To Combat The Addiction
Even as the opioid epidemic continues, the toll of methamphetamine use, also known as meth or crystal meth, is on the rise, too.
Opioid-Related Suicides and Overdose Deaths Have More Than Doubled Since 2000
Suicides and drug overdoses kill US adults at twice the rate today as they did just nearly two decades ago.
Are you OK? Cellphone app detects opioid overdose
The app, called Second Chance, detects overdose-related symptoms about 90 percent of the time by tracking your breathing and movement.
Drug users seeking out deadly opioid fentanyl
More than half of drug users in San Francisco’s gritty Tenderloin district say they purposely seek fentanyl, despite its dangers
Fentanyl deaths rise in Washington State
In the first half of 2018, there were 81 deaths linked to fentanyl, versus 48 deaths recorded during the same time period last year, a 70% increase in deaths.
Meth and opioid use during pregnancy rises, study
Amphetamine and opioid use in pregnancy has increased substantially over the last decade in the U.S., particularly in rural counties, a new study has found