| 76 Billion Opioid Pills: Newly Released Federal Data Unmasks the Epidemic |
THE WASHINGTON POST (07/16) – America’s largest drug companies saturated the country with 76 billion oxycodone and hydrocodone pain pills from 2006 through 2012 as the nation’s deadliest drug epidemic spun out of control, according to previously undisclosed company data released as part of the largest civil action in U.S. history. Read more
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| NIH Establishes Network to Improve Opioid Addiction Treatment in Criminal Justice Settings |
| NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH (07/24) – The National Institutes of Health will award 12 grants to form the Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN) to support research on quality addiction treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) in criminal justice settings nationwide. Read more |
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| Nadler, Harris to Introduce Bill Decriminalizing Pot, Expunge Marijuana Convictions |
| CNBC (07/23) – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler and Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Kamala Harris are introducing legislation to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level and repair “the damage done by the war on drugs” as cannabis reform gains steam in Congress. Read more |
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| Delta's On-Board Emergency Medical Kits Will Now Include a Powerful Overdose-Reversal Drug |
| CNN (07/17) – Delta Air Lines says it will carry naloxone, a medication that reverses an overdose after the fact, after a passenger tweeted that a man died aboard one of its flights. Read more |
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| With Rural Health Care Stretched Thin, More Patients Turn To Telehealth |
| NPR (07/07) – […] A recent NPR poll of rural Americans found that nearly a quarter have used some kind of telehealth service within the past few years; 14% say they received a diagnosis or treatment from a doctor or other health care professional using email, text messaging, live text chat, a mobile app, or a live video like FaceTime or Skype. And 15% say they have received a diagnosis or treatment from a doctor or other health professional over the phone. Read more |
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| Prescription Drugs in The Home Are Fueling the Addiction Crisis Among Kids and Teens, Warns New Research |
| FORBES (07/22) – A significant part of the drug crisis can be traced back to our homes, where prescription drugs are found and misused by other family members and friends, often adolescents and older teens. That’s one of the main findings from a group of recent studies that collectively sound an alarm that parents, doctors and clinicians should hear and heed. Read more |
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| Study Finds Electronic Cigarettes Damage Brain Stem Cells |
| SCIENCE DAILY (07/01) – A research team at the University of California, Riverside, has found that electronic cigarettes, often targeted to youth and pregnant women, produce a stress response in neural stem cells, which are critical cells in the brain. Read more |
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| Elevated Opioid Risks Found at Native American Hospitals |
| ABC NEWS (07/22) – U.S. government hospitals put Native American patients at increased risk for opioid abuse and overdoses, failing to follow their own protocols for prescribing and dispensing the drugs, according to a federal audit made public Monday. Read more |
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| Unregulated Synthetic Opioids Are Tied to 900 Fatal Overdoses in New York City |
| THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (07/23) – Prosecutors and law-enforcement officials are calling for a ban on unregulated synthetic opioids that are blamed for more than 900 overdose deaths in New York City since 2017. Read more |
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| Juul Comes Under Fire for Allegedly Hijacking Teen Anti-Smoking Curriculum |
| NBC NEWS (07/25) – One of the most popular e-cigarette companies, Juul, stole material from Stanford University's renowned tobacco prevention toolkit, and used it to get its marketing messages to kids, one of the toolkit's authors claims. Read more |
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| Device Could Automatically Deliver Drug to Reverse Opioid Overdose |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY (07/24) – […] Purdue University researchers are developing a device that would automatically detect an overdose and deliver naloxone, a drug known to reverse deadly effects. Read more |
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| Weird New Kinds of Cocaine Could Start a “Hidden Epidemic” of Health Threats |
| BUZZFEED NEWS (07/29) – A hidden epidemic of chronic disease — organ failure, leaky blood vessels, and “flesh eating” infections — might threaten cocaine and meth users in coming years because of increasing signs of dangerous adulterants in illicit drugs, analysts warn. Read more |
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| Rates of New Persistent Opioid Use After Vaginal or Cesarean Birth Among US Women |
| JAMA NETWORK (07/26) – […] In this US national cohort study of 308 226 deliveries, women who received a peripartum opioid prescription had rates of new persistent opioid use of 1.7% for vaginal delivery and 2.2% for cesarean delivery. Prescription size and filling a prescription before delivery were associated with new persistent opioid use. Read more |
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| One in 10 Older Adults Binge Drinks, Increasing Health Risks |
| NBC NEWS (07/31) – […] Palamar and colleagues analyzed data on 10,927 people over age 65 who participated in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health between 2015 and 2017. An estimated 10.6 percent of the participants reported binge drinking — defined as five or more drinks at once for men, and four or more for women — within the previous 30 days, the study found. Read more |
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| 'Wasping': Experts Correct Reports of People Getting High on Wasp Spray |
| INVERSE (07/20) – […] The local news stories suggest that people are using wasp spray as a drug, either by itself or in combination with methamphetamine. The evidence for this trend, which news outlets reported on in 2018 when it was called “KD” or “wasping,” appears just as thin now as it did then. Read more |
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| A Lawmaker Wants to End ‘Social Media Addiction’ by Killing Features That Enable Mindless Scrolling |
| THE WASHINGTON POST (07/30) – The youngest senator in Congress, and one of its toughest crusaders against Big Tech, proposed a bill Tuesday meant to curb social media addiction by regulating the techniques that prolong engagement on the platforms. Read more |
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