Category: Alcohol And Drug Abuse
August 30, 2018 – Overdose Death
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Anchor lead: New CDC data estimate many more opioid deaths than previously thought, Elizabeth Tracey reports 72,000. That’s the number of deaths related to drug overdoses in the United States in 2017, the most recent data from the Centers for …
August 17, 2018 – Drinking Habits
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Anchor lead: If you don’t drink alcohol and you’re worried about Alzheimer’s disease, what should you do? Elizabeth Tracey reports People who drink alcohol moderately in middle age seem to develop Alzheimer’s disease less often than those who don’t drink …
August 16, 2018 – Moderate Drinking
August 15, 2018 – Alcohol and Alzheimer’s
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Anchor lead: Quantity and timing of alcohol consumption may affect Alzheimer’s development, Elizabeth Tracey reports Drinking moderately in your middle years may protect you against Alzheimer’s disease later, a recent study in the British Medical Journal found. Sevil Yasar, whose …
May 2, 2018 – Spice and K2
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Anchor lead: Synthetic marijuana-like products may be dangerous, Elizabeth Tracey reports Even as legal marijuana spreads across the country, the synthetic weed known as K2 or spice has been implicated in cases of severe bleeding in Illinois. Eric Strain, a …
May 1, 2018 – Naloxone for All
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Anchor lead: Who should carry opioid antidotes? Elizabeth Tracey reports Should more people carry naloxone to reverse opioid overdose, as was advised recently by the US Surgeon General? Eric Strain, a drug abuse expert at Johns Hopkins, comments. Strain: We’ve …