The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends offering buprenorphine to teens addicted to opioids. But only 6% of pediatricians report ever doing so.
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A Cleveland man with a lengthy criminal history has been indicted in connection with the December ...
Drug overdose deaths continue to rise ... from synthetic opioids other than methadone more than doubled in the last five years. Deaths involving cocaine spiked in 2022 — rising more than ...
Tanner Welsh, 21, of Portland was sentenced to nine years and three years of ... percentage increase in overdose deaths nationwide Investigators also found that the teen exchanged several texts ...
And since 2002, the rate of deaths from a drug overdose has quadrupled, largely fueled by the highly lethal fentanyl, new data shows. Fentanyl has increasingly contaminated the illegal supply of ...
Drug overdose deaths in Bartholomew County so far this ... “We have rarely seen people test positive for heroin over the last two to three years, and most people who think they are taking ...
Tanner Welsh, 21, was sentenced to 108 months in federal prison and three years supervised ... found that the teen had exchanged several texts with Welsh before their overdose, which was in ...
(THE CONVERSATION) The Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office found that nitazenes, a synthetic opioid up to 40 times more powerful than fentanyl, were connected to at least five overdose deaths in ...
Despite an overall decrease in drug use among teens compared to prior years, one startling trend accelerated – drug overdose deaths ... have shown that there are three particularly vulnerable ...
A teen driver charged with killing a mom and three kids by racing through a red light at 112 mph was involved in two other major crashes in suburban Seattle — with bodycam footage showing a cop ...
Suicides are slightly down after a sharp spike in 2021, but natural deaths are up ... dozens of cases The Times reviewed from the past three years, several involved inmates who were held in ...
Younger users' ignorance of risks associated with drugs' unpredictable dosage — the "chocolate chip cookie effect" — is one factor cited in death toll.