New Drug Epidemic

Fentanyl, the New Drug Epidemic. David W. Murray. The June 28 release of the 2016 Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) National Heroin Threat Assessment addresses the emerging scope of the synthetic opioid threat, particularly from fentanyl, a drug which significantly escalates the current devastating heroin and prescription opioid outbreak.DEA notes that overdose deaths from these synthetics.

New drug epidemic. INDIANAPOLIS — As the opioid epidemic rages out of control, with more than 1 million Americans a year swamping hospitals for overdose treatments, Eli Lilly and Co. is working on a new pain. Donald Trump on Saturday again vowed to build a wall along the Mexico-U.S. border -- this time arguing that it would help stem New Hampshire's "drug epidemic." The name "crack" first appeared in the New York Times on November 17, 1985. Within a year more than a thousand press stories had been released about the drug. In the early 1980s, the majority of cocaine being shipped to the United States was landing in Miami, and originated in Colombia, trafficked through the Bahamas and Dominican Republic. Soon there was a huge glut of cocaine powder in these. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention details the meteoric rise of a drug that was first approved by the Food and Drug Administration back in 1968. It shows that fentanyl’s role as a driver of the opioid epidemic can be traced to late 2013.

The widespread use and growing availability of benzodiazepines have these drugs poised to become one of the next major drug epidemics in America. Public health professionals may be tasked with including benzo drug treatment and drug abuse prevention measures alongside similar actions being used for the opioid epidemic. Public health officials have called the current opioid epidemic the worst drug crisis in American history, killing more than 33,000 people in 2015. Overdose deaths were nearly equal to the number. The Hidden Drug Epidemic Among Older People People in their 60s take an average of 15 prescription drugs a year. Combined with over-the-counter products, they may do more harm than good. The drug epidemic continues to worsen across the country. New York has also faced an increased number of drug overdose and chronic drug abuse deaths. In New York, the drug epidemic, with drugs like heroin and fentanyl, has been especially problematic in upstate and suburban counties outside of New York City.

INDIANAPOLIS — A proposal at the statehouse calls for stiffer penalties on drug users and dealers as a new plan to fight the drug epidemic around Indiana. Last year, within just 24 hours, 25 people overdosed right around Wheeler Mission. A men's homeless shelter near downtown Indianapolis. The new program—known as Diversion Opening Opportunities for Recovery Services (“DOORS”)—allows members of the District Attorney’s Office to refer individuals who may be suffering from addiction to treatment in an effort to combat the opioid epidemic in the region as well as divert non-violent, low-level offenders from the criminal justice system. A new drug epidemic is emerging in Peterborough, adding to the ongoing deadly opioid crisis. The drug is crystal meth. Meth is a highly addictive stimulant that provides users an euphoric feeling and can keep users awake for days. It causes tweaking, paranoia, agitation, aggression and psychosis. …of—and resulting public nervousness over—the crack epidemic that arose in the early 1980s. This heightened concern over illicit drug use helped drive political support for Reagan’s hard-line stance on drugs. The U.S. Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, which allocated $1.7 billion to the War on Drugs and…

The Drug Epidemic In New Jersey. Substance abuse is one of the main problems facing New Jersey as a whole at the present moment. Many New Jersey residents struggle with addiction to a wide variety of dangerous drugs. The most commonly abused drug in New Jersey, which lines up with the country as a whole, is alcohol. While many municipalities in. A drug increasingly being used to treat opioid addiction may be fueling a new epidemic of diversion, overdose, addiction and death in the United States. With each new administration comes a new approach to combating the addiction epidemic. The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy recently released its drug control strategy, a brainchild of the government’s new drug czar, Jim Carroll. Grainger and West said they wanted the video to point out that more needs to be done to solve the drug epidemic in Kokomo. “We have our own experience with addiction, the whole point was to raise awareness, we probably could have done a better job at the end of really conveying our actual feelings,” Grainger said.

The New Drug Epidemic: Cocaine Turns Deadlier When Laced With Fentanyl. By Stephanie Weaver 11/25/19 AT 12:42 PM. Today, about a thousand people die every week from drug abuses and two-thirds of those deaths are from opioid overdoses. It’s no wonder the opioid epidemic is now being regarded as the worst public health crisis in American history, affecting people of all races, ages and economic standing. The hardest hit demographic, however, is white. Beyond Opioids: America’s New Drug Epidemic Carol Latter July 31, 2018 | 9 comments . For 41-year-old cardiologist Christy Huff, life—once fulfilling and happy—is an unrecognizable nightmare. She’s incapacitated by a laundry list of symptoms (pounding heart, severe nausea, low appetite, insomnia, muscle spasm, acid reflux, severe. New Mexico’s drug epidemic. New Mexico’s reputation as one of the leading states for drug and alcohol abuse remains unchallenged as policy-makers grapple with how to solve what appears an intractable problem with cultural, systemic and even political causes.

A new and dangerous synthetic street drug has been involved in a number of bizarre incidents in Florida and experts are concerned it could spread