There is an epidemic of opioid addiction in America. According to data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States, about 70 Americans die each year from drug overdoses. Although prescription painkillers, as well as street drugs, certainly contribute to the rise...
A year ago, the United States was gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic, the scourge of opioid addiction: according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, more than 2019 people died due to drug overdoses in 70. ABC News reported the details. According to recent research, the opioid epidemic...
Police officers and a tow truck driver have been released from the hospital after suspected fentanyl poisoning on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, ABC7 reports. Four California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers, a Golden Gate Bridge patrolman and a tow truck driver have been released from the hospital...
Studies show that deaths from opioids are 85% higher in cities where auto factories have been closed. Writes about this Fox Business. Opioid deaths among people between the ages of 18 and 65 have increased significantly in US counties where car factories ...
The pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma, which has received thousands of lawsuits due to the opioid crisis in the United States, has filed for bankruptcy. The pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma, which is considered one of the culprits of the opioid crisis in the United States, has filed bankruptcy filings in court, Meduza reports citing ...
A California neurosurgeon was arrested on suspicion of murdering his patients and prescribed a wide variety of powerful pain relievers. Writes about this Lenta.Ru. Thomas Keller, 72, is charged with four murders, elder abuse and four unlawful opioid prescriptions ...
Pharmaceutical company Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. agreed to pay $ 85 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the state of Oklahoma alleging pain relievers it produced contributed to the state's opioid crisis and caused the deaths of thousands of residents due to the abuse of such drugs. ...
Dozens of healthcare workers in seven US states have been charged with illegally distributing millions of painkiller pills. Prescriptions for opioid drugs were exchanged for sex in some cases and cash in others. One of the doctors was accused of regularly prescribing opioids...
A US Coast Guard lieutenant serving at headquarters in Washington was arrested on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack. The house of 49-year-old Christopher Paul Hesson was searched, during which law enforcement officers found several thousand cartridges and 15 pieces of firearms, writes News.Ru. ...
Life expectancy in the United States fell again in 2017, marking the third consecutive year of such a decline, writes the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. On November 29, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released two new reports, and the good news is not ...