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{FD} Why are so many women dying from drug overdoses?
The opioid crisis has continued to worsen in the United States, and middle-aged women are significantly affected.
{FD} North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum: Our criminal justice system has an opioid problem
More than 80 percent of people in North Dakota’s prisons have a substance addiction, and half of all arrests in the state are substance-related.
{FD} Frustrated opioid patients speak out: ‘I now buy heroin on the street’
Hundreds of people who reached out to Fox News through emails, and messages on social media, following the publication of a three-part series on the nation’s struggle to address its crippling opioid crisis caused mainly by illegal drugs, and the unintended victims – chronic pain sufferers who have relied on prescribed opioids for relief — left in its wake.
{FD} White House nominee for Drug Czar: Hope and healing amid the horrors of addiction this holiday season
The most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tells us that in 2017, someone in the U.S. died of a drug overdose every seven minutes.
{FD} Vaping boom: Twice the amount of teens vaping than last year, survey finds
It was the largest single-year increase in the survey’s 44-year history.
{FD} Fentanyl now deadliest drug in America, meth overdoses growing, CDC says
Fentanyl is now the deadliest drug in America, beating out heroin and oxycodone which had previously been involved in the most overdose fatalities between 2011 and 2016.
{FD} Tough new opioid policies leave some cancer and post-surgery patients without painkillers
New federal and state hard lines on painkiller prescriptions are affecting even cancer patients and people fresh out of major surgeries.
{FD} Health experts offer solutions for unintended consequences of opioid crackdown
The most urgently needed first step to addressing the misunderstandings about Centers for Disease and Prevention opioid prescribing guidelines, many clinicians and health experts say, is for the agency to clarify – in a high-profile way– what the guidelines were meant, and not meant, to do.
{FD} Doctors caught between struggling opioid patients and crackdown on prescriptions
Doctors are opting to stop prescribing legal opioids – even to people who are left bedridden without them — as insurers, pharmacies, state medical boards and state and federal law enforcement authorities warn them about overstepping federal opioid prescribing guidelines (issued in 2016 by the Centers for Disease Control) and the regulatory or third-party limits that followed on the number of pills and daily dosage they can give patients. Some have stopped prescribing opioids after being faced with losing their medical license or getting arrested.