FDA Expands Access to Overdose Antidote to Stem Opiate Addiction Epidemic

FDA Expands Access to Overdose Antidote to Stem Opiate Addiction Epidemic
While the Obama administration called on states to loosen restrictions on Naloxone access, some governors, including Paul LePage of Maine, oppose making the drug more widely available, citing concerns that it would promote more illicit drug use. But …
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Oxycodone: The factors behind Australians' increasing use of 'hillbilly heroin'
Over the past 10 years, the number of prescriptions for pharmaceutical opioids in Australia has soared, and prescriptions for one drug in particular, oxycodone, have shown a significant increase. Both are trends that have the nation's medical community …
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US drug war slowly turns its aim away from low-level users
The changes are both rhetorical and substantive, reflecting fiscal problems caused in part by prisons bulging with drug offenders and a shifting social ethos that views some drug use as less harmful than in the past. States are driving the trend. At …
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Hand-Held Treatment for Overdoses Is Approved
Federal health regulators approved a drug overdose treatment device on Thursday that experts say will provide a powerful lifesaving tool in the midst of a surging epidemic of prescription drug abuse. Similar to an EpiPen used to stop allergic reactions …
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Florida Representative Trey Radel caught buying cocaine; blames alcohol addiction — Republican Representative Trey Radel of Florida has been charged with cocaine possession after getting caught buying the substance during a federal sting ope…

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