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Anchor lead: Are people who have advanced cancer at high risk for opioid overdose? Elizabeth Tracey reports People with advanced cancers are often on opioid medications. A new study examines whether they are at higher risk for overdose death as …
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Anchor lead: People undergoing treatment for drug addiction during Covid-19 may lack technologies that can be very helpful, Elizabeth Tracey reports Portable electronic medicine boxes can help dispense needed medications to people who are in treatment for drug addiction, but …
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Anchor lead: Technology has been able to help some under treatment for drug addiction during the pandemic, Elizabeth Tracey reports If you’re being treated for drug addiction, coming to a center to get your medicine has many challenges, especially as …
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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. …
