Drug overdoses, vehicle crashes, suicide common types of non-natural Nevada …
Wei Yang, professor of public health for the University of Nevada School of Medicine and director of the Nevada Center for Health Statistics, is aware of Nevada's high rate of overdose deaths. “We have lots of what and how,” … Opioid painkillers …
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PEOPLE Special Report: The Deadly Pill Epidemic
The statistics are staggering, the medicines powerful and highly addictive: This year more Americans will die of drug over-doses than in any other type of accident – including car crashes. In most cases, those deaths are caused by pills in many people …
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Dedham officials, residents discuss drug abuse
Drug abuse, from prescription pain killers and other opiates to alcohol, and the associated problems to fuel that habit like house breaks and car breaks, are an ongoing battle for the police as well as the residents of the town. For Dorothy Victoria …
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Canada needs strategy to deal with opioid overdoses, workshop hears
The province estimated 50,000 people were addicted to OxyContin and other opiate drugs. Krishnamurthy called OxyContin “the most abused prescription medication known to man.” Between 2002 and 2009, there were 229 deaths in Toronto due to toxic …
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