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Shared Fentanyl Pipe Residue a New Overdose Danger
THURSDAY, May 23, 2024 – San Francisco researchers report that smoking has now replaced injections as the most common way of ingesting illicit fentanyl. That switch has created a potentially deadly...
Police Seizures of Pills With Fentanyl Have Skyrocketed
MONDAY, May 13, 2024 – Police seizures of illicit fentanyl pills have soared in recent years, a new study has found. The number of pills containing fentanyl seized by law enforcement was 2,300 times...
Number, Size of Seizures of Fentanyl Increasing in the United States
MONDAY, May 13, 2024 – The number and size of seizures of fentanyl are increasing in the United States, with most seizures occurring in the West, according to a study published online May 13 in the...
Almost All Counterfeit Oxycontin Pills Contain Fentanyl
TUESDAY, May 7, 2024 – Lab tests of counterfeit oxycodone (Oxycontin) pills seized by police in Rhode Island in 2022 found 99.3% also contained dangerous fentanyl. It was typically mixed with ...
Man Nearly Died From Fentanyl-Linked Brain Disease
TUESDAY, April 30, 2024 – A middle-aged Seattle man collapsed in his Portland, Ore.-area hotel room, where he was staying during a business trip. He’d just tried fentanyl for the first time, and it v...
Few Young Adults Could Administer Naloxone to Reverse Fentanyl Overdose
MONDAY, April 22, 2024 – Even though fentanyl-linked fatal overdoses are soaring among young adults, a new survey of American college students found that just 1 in 7 knew how to administer the...
2020 to 2022 Saw Increase in Percentage of OD Deaths Involving Smoking
THURSDAY, Feb. 15, 2024 – From 2020 to 2022, there was an increase in the percentage of overdose deaths with evidence of smoking, according to research published in the Feb. 15 issue of the U.S....
Smoking Now Fuels More Drug Overdoses than Injecting Does
FRIDAY, Feb. 16, 2024 – Despite stereotypical images of addicts injecting heroin and then dying, new government research finds that smoking drugs such as fentanyl is now the leading cause of fatal...
Latest Data Show 22 U.S. Teens Die of Overdoses Each Week
TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 – An average of 22 U.S. teens die each week from drug overdoses, a death toll driven by the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl, a new study reports. Researchers also have...
FDA Medwatch Alert: Leiters Health Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Vancomycin IV Bags, Phenylephrine IV Bags, and Fentanyl IV Bags Due to Potential for Superpotent Drug
January 5, 2024 – Englewood, Colorado, Leiters Health is voluntarily recalling 33 lots of products listed below to the user level. The recalled batches of vancomycin IV bags, phenylephrine IV bags, a...
New Syndrome May Be Affecting Babies Exposed to Fentanyl
TUESDAY, Dec. 5, 2023 – Doctors report they are seeing what they think is a new syndrome in babies who are exposed to fentanyl while in the womb. All of the infants have cleft palates and unusually...
Opioid Rx Down, but Overdoses and Deaths Up, AMA Report Shows
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 15, 2023 – Opioid prescribing by physicians and other health professionals has decreased for the 13th consecutive year, down nearly 50 percent since 2012, while overdoses and deaths...
More Than 1 in 6 U.S. Adults, Teens Have Substance Use Disorder
TUESDAY, NOV. 14, 2023 (Healthday News) – Over 1 in 6 Americans, adults and teens alike, suffered a substance use disorder in 2022, new government data released Monday shows. In the survey, alcohol ...
One-Day Induction of XR Buprenorphine Feasible for Fentanyl Use in OUD
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 8, 2023 – For individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) using fentanyl, a one-day induction of extendedârelease buprenorphine is a feasible treatment approach, according to a study p...
Concurrent Use of Fentanyl, Stimulants Common in Overdoses
FRIDAY, Sept. 15, 2023 – By 2021, stimulants were the most common drug class found in fentanyl-involved overdoses, according to a study published online Sept. 13 in Addiction. Joseph Friedman,...
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