Wider Availability Of Naloxone Could Help Curb Drug Overdose Epidemic

Wider Availability Of Naloxone Could Help Curb Drug Overdose Epidemic
It will be the first law enforcement agency in California to do so. Capt. James Bovet said San Diego County has seen epidemic levels of drug abuse. “Starting with prescription medication, and then really morphing into heroin,” Bovet said. “And we’ve …
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Painkillers Might Not Be Right Prescription For Veterans
Michelsen is the San Diego coordinator of the VA’s new opioid reduction … At first you take the drugs and then the drugs take you.” He said painkiller addiction had become so common at the Naval Medical Center that a policy was established outlining …
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No ruling yet in controversial Mass. painkiller ban
San Diego-based drug company Zogenix argues it is unconstitutional to ban the drug because it has FDA approval, but Governor Deval Patrick has declared prescription drug abuse as a public health emergency. He says he has singled out Zohydo because the new …
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Elderly Woman Unwittingly Living in Hash Oil Lab
Detectives have charged a San Diego man with elderly abuse, among many other counts, after a hash oil laboratory was discovered in a home where an elderly woman lives. The woman had no idea the drug lab was operating out of her residence, according to …
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States rebel against powerful new painkiller, worry that it will lead to more drug abuse
and Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., introduced legislation that would compel the FDA to withdraw the drug. San Diego-based Zogenix, which makes Zohydro, said that it has set up a board of experts to guard against abuse and that its sales representatives are …
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OUR VIEW — America should slow down rush to legalize pot
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, 9 percent of users become addicted and, more importantly, the rate rises to 17 percent (one in six) among teen users. … we assume that marijuana is no worse than alcohol and that an occasional high …
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US woman allegedly admitted strangling, suffocating her 6 newborn babies
Her estranged husband, Darren West, who had recently been in prison on drug-related charges, made the discovery Saturday with fellow family members while cleaning out the garage of the house, which is owned by his parents. He called Huntsman, who …
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Substance Abuse Tx Problematic Despite ACA
"There is no illness that will be more favorably affected [by the Affordable Care Act] than substance abuse," said A. Thomas McLellan, former U.S. deputy drug czar and now chief executive officer of the Treatment Research Institute in Philadelphia …
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