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Anchor lead: Experts in drug addiction are sounding an alarm about vulnerabilities in this population in the setting of the pandemic, Elizabeth Tracey reports Almost 70,000 people died in 2018 in the United States due to drug overdoses, a number …
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Anchor lead: How many opioid overdoses may actually be suicides? Elizabeth Tracey reports Opioid overdose deaths may actually be suicides in a sizeable number of cases, a recent study projects. Eric Strain, a drug addiction expert at Johns Hopkins, says …
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Anchor lead: Adolescents experience opioid overdose and need treatment, Elizabeth Tracey reports Fewer than one in fifty adolescents who come to an emergency department with opioid overdose and survive are offered recommended treatment to help them avoid a recurrence, a …
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Anchor lead: How are adolescents who overdose on opioids treated? Elizabeth Tracey reports When people experience a non-fatal opioid overdose treatment to curb addiction and help them avoid recurrence is indicated, yet only a very few adolescents receive such treatment. …
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Anchor lead: How can we avoid emergency department visits related to edible cannabis products? Elizabeth Tracey reports Cookies, brownies, gummies…these types of cannabis products are behind the recent spike in emergency departments visits related to cannabis use. Ryan Vandry, a …
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Anchor lead: What’s behind increasing ED visits for cannabis? Elizabeth Tracey reports Many more people are turning up in emergency departments nationally with problems related to edibles, that range of products containing cannabis that are ingested. Ryan Vandry, a cannabis …
