Category: Health and Society

Derek (35) had been “stable, off heroin” for the past five months and was to … The worry is that there will be relapses and perhaps deaths among an …

… could drive people to take their own life or die from a drug overdose. … cited the current number of suicides and overdose deaths, which he placed …

Locally, Wicomico County saw a decline in 29, with 29 lives lost due to opioid related overdoses. This is down one person from the 30 overdose deaths …

… of illicit-drug overdose deaths. That crisis remains ongoing and, according to UBC associate professor of law Benjamin Perrin, is now compounded, …

Distribution of drug classes involved in suicidal overdoses served as the main outcome. The researchers calculated the odds and relative risk of death …

We extracted death records from the Vital Statistics database and categorised them as all cause, drug related (problematic drug use or accidental drug …

Since early 2016, nearly 4,000 British Columbians have died of an overdose. Last year alone, there were 981 deaths; most were 30 to 59 years old.

The real-time prescription monitoring system, known as SafeScript, is designed to help reduce the death rate from accidental overdoses by curbing …

Nationally, since 2002, rates of drug misuse have increased, according to GAO’s analysis of federal data.

During the long hours of social distancing and Covid-19 being on every news … Like most other treatment centers, drug rehabs that accept pets are doing … in fact, many experts fear that overdose deaths and other domestic issues …