The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends offering buprenorphine to teens addicted to opioids. But only 6% of pediatricians report ever doing so.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Over the last two decades, the number of U.S. overdose deaths has risen almost every year ... for females declined for the first time in five years, according to the report. But the male overdose ...
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 ...
Kaylee Cope was reported missing by her mother early Saturday. A missing Ohio teen who was the subject of an Amber Alert was found safe and her boyfriend is in custody, according to police.
Younger users' ignorance of risks associated with drugs' unpredictable dosage — the "chocolate chip cookie effect" — is one factor cited in death toll.