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An Ohio doctor being investigated for the suspicious deaths of dozens of hospital patients has been charged with 25 counts of murder.A prosecutor said…
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In Indiana, experts admit the bar for involuntary treatment — committing someone to medical care without their consent — is high. Currently, if law…
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It's just a quiet room filled with comfortable chairs, stocked with oxygen tanks and blood pressure cuffs. But it's likely the only place of it's kind in…
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Deaths from opioid overdoses are on the rise, and we know that because of data on death certificates. States determine who fills them out and what information they record. And that can vary widely.
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The plan, developed by a task force of experts, calls for decreasing the number of overdose deaths by a third in three years. In the past few years,…
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Walgreens Monday announced it will offer over-the-counter distribution of the opioid overdose drug naloxone in all its stores in Indiana and Ohio.Naloxone…
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The FDA has approved the first nasal spray version of naloxone, or Narcan, the drug used to save people from opioid overdoses.Police officers and others…
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The growing abuse of prescription painkillers now touches home for a majority of Americans, according to a poll released Tuesday.More than 56 percent of…
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More than 16,000 Americans die each year from prescription opioid overdoses, with a disproportionate number of these deaths attributed to methadone. Now,…
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A rise in suicides plus an epidemic of overdoses from prescription painkillers and heroin are key factors that have undone a long-term improvement in death rates. A weak economy may have contributed.