CLOSE Booze isn't just featured in commercials, it's pretty much gotten to the point where it's featured in your favorite TV show or movie. Here's how alcohol advertising affects minors. USA TODAYThe number of deaths from alcohol, drugs and...
SURREY (NEWS 1130) – Drug users are being urged to not use alone and keep naloxone nearby after first responders dealt with at least a dozen overdoses in Surrey on Sunday. Dr. Shovita Padhi with...
(WBNG) — One local organization is hoping to fight overdose deaths in a new way. “For the parents out there who’ve lost a loved one, that’s a permanent condition, if somebody dies, they’re gone forever,” said Truth Pharm’s Executive Director Alexis Pleus. She says in the last...
This Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 photo shows an arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen in New York. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison) Copyright by WOODTV - All rights reserved This Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 photo shows an arrangement of pills of the...
The lawsuit against Purdue Pharma filed by the attorney general in Massachusetts amounts to "oversimplified scapegoating" unsupported by the law, the company said in a new court filing. In a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, the Sackler family - owners of Purdue Pharma, the...
Five Wilmington, Del., firefighters and...
Growing up in the farmlands around Dayton, south-west Ohio, a teenage Randy Carmack knew many “little old ladies” whose cupboards contained powerful painkillers. “One had a leg amputation and she didn’t like her fentanyl patches, so I bought her prescription from her granddaughter,” he said. Carmack...
More than two months after D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) released a far-reaching plan to cut opioid overdose deaths in half by late 2020, key programs described in the plan have not been launched, according to city officials and service providers. The anti-opioid...