Overdose

People Are Dying of Drug Overdoses, Despite Lifesaving Medications

Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D. | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Fda Regulations, Opiates, Fda, Prescription Drugs, Public Health, Painkillers, Naloxone, Drug Abuse, War on Drugs, Painkiller Abuse, Addiction and Recovery, Prescription Drug Abuse, Overdose, Healthy Living News

We have waged a war against drugs instead of formulating a science-based response to a public health epidemic for which a life-saving medication is available.

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Keeping Alcohol in the Spotlight: 6 Facts

Deni Carise | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Addiction, Drug, Overdose, Alcohol, Mental Health, Drug Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol Abuse Effects, Substance Abuse, Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse, Abuse of Alcohol, Healthy Living News

Cocaine, heroin and now prescription drugs continue to occupy the headlines -- as indeed they should -- but alcohol deserves the same attention. Our nation's alcohol problem may not seem as scandalous, but it's just as serious.

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Xanax Facts and Whitney Houston

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Psychiatric Drug Abuse, Peter Breggin, Whitney Houston, Prescription Drugs, Ssris, Ssri Antidepressants, Prozac, Benzos, Benzodiazepines, Prescription Drug Abuse, Overdose, Xanax, Mental Health, Xanax Whitney Houston, Healthy Living News

Reports that Xanax and other benzos are not usually lethal when taken alone are vastly misleading. Xanax is rarely taken alone. Why? Because as much or more than any other prescribed drug, Xanax causes medication spellbinding.

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Police Find Body Outside Miami-Dade County Auditorium

Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Flager, Accidental Death, Miami News, Suicide, Body, City of Miami Police, Miami-Dade County Auditorium, Miami Crime, Overdose, Miami News

Miami police report that they have found a body outside the northwest corner of the Miami-Dade County Auditorium at 2901 W. Flagler Street. Officer Mo...

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Gov. Cuomo Signs Law to Help Reduce Overdose Deaths

Gabriel Sayegh | Posted 09.23.2011

Read More: Drug Policy Alliance, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Drug Overdose, Drug Policy, Overdose, Overdose Legislation, Good Samaritan 911, Overdose Law, Overdose Policy, New York News

A national crisis has emerged as the number of overdose deaths from both legal and illegal drugs has skyrocketed. Now New York is taking action to stem the crisis.

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Program Supervising Illegal Drug Use Successfully Cut Overdose Rates

Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Cocaine Addiction, Heroin Overdose, Canada Drug Laws, Cocaine Overdose, Supervised Injection Facility, Heroin Addiction, Heroin, Injection Facility, Drug Laws, Overdose Rate, Overdose, Cocaine, Drugs, Home News

North America's only sanctioned facility for injection of illegal drugs has cut overdose deaths and should be used as a model in other cities, accor...

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Nicole John: Blog of Depressed, Partying, Now-Dead Teen Reads Like My Own Teen Diary

The Stir | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Eric John, Drugs, Nicole John Death, Overdose, Teenagers, Alcohol, Healthy Living News

Strip away the Xanax, the posh Manhattan nightlife, and the international lifestyle and the blog entries from hard-partying 17-year-old Nicole John co...

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Smart Solutions to Overdose Can Save Lives

Gabriel Sayegh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Overdose Deaths, Heath, Drugs, Drug Policy Alliance, Drug Overdose, Corey Haim, Heath Ledger, Overdose, Drug Policy, New York News

New York lawmakers are now considering two very different approaches to address accidental overdose fatalities: One bill will most certainly make the problem worse, while the other will likely save lives.

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Obama's New Rules For PTSD: How Much Trauma Is Enough?

Cilla McCain | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prescription Drugs, Iraq Veterans' Mental Health, Iraq, Ptsd, Female Soldiers, Overdose, Veterans, President Obama, Politics News

Will PFC Bailey have to carry around the emotional scars of her service to our nation (not to mention sexual assault) without any help from the people who sent her there?

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Six Ways to Improve Electric Daisy Carnival

Joshua Glazer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Electric Daisy Carnival Overdose, Electric Daisy Carnival, Edc, Los-Angeles-Memorial-Coliseum, Edc Overdose, Los Angeles, Ecstasy, Overdose, Los Angeles News

I wrote this post as I watched the hysteria surrounding Electric Daisy Carnival hit the media. With one death and over 100 hospitalized, obviously some changes need to be made.

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Moms Unite to End the War on Drugs

Gretchen Burns Bergman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drug Treatment, Prison, San Diego, Mom, Drugs, War on Drugs, Mexico Drug Wars, A New PATH, Drug Overdose, Prohibition, Overdose, Politics News

Now is the time to demand an end to the pointless and punitive criminalization of people who use drugs.

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In His New Book, Anna Nicole Smith Judge Urges New Police Probe

AP | MATT SEDENSKY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bahamas, Playboy, Enablers, Opiates, Larry-Seidlin, Sedatives, Howard K. Stern, Miami, Overdose, Manslaughter, Books News

MIAMI — The flamboyant judge brought to fame in the fight over Anna Nicole Smith's remains says he believes someone is guilty of manslaughter in...

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Sebastian Horsley Dead: Eccentric UK Author Dies At 47 Of Suspected Overdose

AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sebastian Horsley Dandy in the Underworld, Sebastian Horsley, Sebastian Horsley Dead, Authors, Books, Dandy in the Underworld, Overdose, Books News

LONDON — Self-styled dandy and noted British eccentric Sebastian Horsley, who found fame by having himself nailed to a cross in the Philippines,...

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Harm Reduction in the United States: Whose History? (Part 2)

Allan Clear | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drugs, Needle Exchange, Activism, War on Drugs, Harm Reduction, Syringe Exchange, Aids, Drug Policy, Harm Reduction Coalition, Hiv, Overdose, Politics News

Yesterday I wrote about an editorial that was rejected by an academic journal in fall 2009 that outlined the history of harm reduction in the United ...

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Harm Reduction in the United States: Whose History? (Part 1)

Allan Clear | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hiv, Activism, Needle Exchange, Harm Reduction, Drugs, Syringe Exchange, War on Drugs, Drug Policy, Aids, Harm Reduction Coalition, Overdose, Politics News

In the fall of 2009, I was asked by an academic journal to contribute a 1,500 word editorial that outlined the history of harm reduction in the United...

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AP Thinks Heroin's Got a Brand New Bag, Misses Story

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ap, Slate, Naloxone, Heroin, Media, Jack Shafer, Crack, Overdose, Media News

This kind of shallow reporting is why the media loses credibility -- a simple Google search or call to an academic expert on drugs or even a conversation with a long-time addict would reveal that $10 bags are not news.

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What Really Killed Corey Haim?

Bonnie Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corey Haim Dead, Core Haim Dies, Corey Haim Drugs, Corey Haim Death, Corey Haim, Drug Overdose, Overdose, Entertainment News

Corey doesn't appear to have died in a "typical" drug overdose. Here's what could really have gone tragically wrong with the former child star, according to a prominent internist.

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Death Row Inmate Overdose Delays Lethal Injection

AP | MATT LEINGANG | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lawrence Reynolds, Death Row, Lawrence Reynolds Jr., Death Row Prisoner ODs to Delay Lethal Injection, Lawrence Reynolds Jr. OD, Death Penalty, Lethal Injection, Stay of Execution, Od, Lawrence Reynolds Jr. Death Penalty, Lawrence Reynolds Junior, Lawrence Reynolds Jr. Lethal Injection, Drug Overdose, Overdose, Inmate Ods Execution, Home News

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Gov. Ted Strickland on Monday postponed the execution of a convicted killer who managed to take an overdose of pills in his dea...

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Get Busy Committee on Changing the Face of Hip Hop Forever

Jon Chattman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Linkin Park, Kanye West, R&b, Rap, Apathy, Snoop Dog, Brand Nubian, Throwback, Uzi Does It, Heroin, Scoop Deville, Electro, Overdose, Get Busy Committee, Compliment, The Game, Hip Hop, Society, Old School, Pete Rock & CL, Jay-Z, Google, Alkaholiks, Ryu, Entertainment News

Lately, rap has been getting a bad rap because there's no true voice for the hip hop community. That changed last week when the Get Busy Committee dropped their new album Uzi Does It.

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Robert Guskind, Gowanus Lounge Head, Death Deemed OD

Brooklyn Paper | Mike McLaughlin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Guskind, the prolific yet troubled force behind the Gowanus Lounge Web site, died of "an accidental overdose," from a combination of prescripti...

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Michael Jackson and the Overdose Crisis in America

Jill Harris | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Harm Reduction, Naloxone, Drugs, War on Drugs, Overdose, Healthy Living News

If Michael Jackson's death was caused by an opioid overdose, it might have been averted had people close to him had access to a simple and reliable antidote: naloxone, otherwise known as Narcan.

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Recent Heroin Surge: A Major Threat

Joshua Lyon | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Oxycontin, Vicodin, Heroin, War on Drugs, Drug Overdose, Overdose, Prescription Pills, Pills, Prescription Painkillers, Healthy Living News

If you're hooked on an opiate, and you find that same high at a much cheaper price, it becomes much easier to justify using heroin.

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Germany Approves Prescribing Heroin to Long-time Users Unable to Quit

Tony Newman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Crime, Germany, Heroin-Prescription, Drugs, War on Drugs, Heroin, Overdose, Health, World News

A new law has been approved allowing doctors to prescribe synthetic heroin to people with long-term drug addictions in an effort to reduce crime, overdose deaths and the spread of HIV.

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Pharmaceutical Drug Pushers Lead to National Overdose

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Children, Woody Allen, Clinical Depression, Mother's Little Helper, Human Condition, Medicine Cabinets, Prozac, Ambien, Medications, Overdose, Faulty Diagnoses, Larry King, Campbell Soup, Bi-Polar, Nike, Coke, Psychotropic Drugs, Law and Order, Newsweek, Monet, Lincoln, Lipitor, Depression, Billie Holiday, Adhd, George Orwell, The New York Times, World War 2, Diagnoses, Pharmacies, Erection, Rodney Dangerfield, Pharmaceutical Industry, Victor Hugo, Priapism, Add, Lunesta, Beethoven, Botox, The Marx Brothers, Viagra, Vioxx, Insomnia, Painkillers, Valium, Zanax, Politics News

I only hope that some woman is lucky enough to be with a man who becomes afflicted with one side effect Viagra claims, a condition known as priapism, ...

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