If you watch the news on any given night, you’ll hear about the many innovations that are going on across the country. The US is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, but for some reason we can’t keep our youth from dying? For the past two years, the US life expectancy has actually …
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According to the CDC, over 2 million Americans have either been dependent on prescription opioids or have abused them. Unfortunately, those numbers aren’t going anywhere. More specific to Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services states that the number of drug overdose deaths in Wisconsin that are caused by prescription opioids has increased by 600 …
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Across the country, opioid abuse is at an all time high. CNN recently reported that deaths from opioid overdoses across the United States were at 15,000 in 2005 and have more than doubled in just 10 short years. The state of Ohio is no exception to this growing epidemic. In 2005, deaths in Ohio from …
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Local government officials in New Hanover County, North Carolina have had enough of the opioid crisis. This coastal county which encompasses Wilmington and other small beach towns along the coast of North Carolina are contesting in a recent lawsuit that drug makers and distributors have pushed their powerful painkillers, which has in turn ultimately led …
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While drug overdose deaths, many of which have been linked to opioids, are growing across the country, West Virginia has been one of the hardest hit by this epidemic. West Virginia reported 884 drug overdose deaths in 2016, with just over 85% or 756 of those deaths involving some type of opioid. This is a …
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