Whatcom County ‘greatly impacted’ by prescription drug abuse WHATCOM — The county is suing the largest manufacturers of prescription opioids in the country. A federal lawsuit, filed on June 27 by the county Prosecutor’s Office, asks for damages from pharmaceutical...
The federal government’s top disease fighter, who built his career battling the emergence of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, says the opioid epidemic will be even worse. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has dubbed the...
At home in the village of Holley, not a single day goes by that Tammi Bale can forget the night she lost her son. “March 10th, 2016 I got a phone call about 11 o’clock at night—actually a text saying call me, Bob is dead,” she said. Her son, Robert Bale,...
COLUMBUS, Ohio -The state auditor says Ohio’s health safety net provided by Medicaid is being stretched thin because of the opioid epidemic. A new report from the Ohio Auditor’s Office shows the number of Ohio Medicaid recipients with an opioid-related...
A woman crouches on the sidewalk next to her boyfriend, who is unresponsive and not breathing after an opioid overdose in the Boston suburb of Everett, Massachusetts, on August 23, 2017.BRIAN SNYDER / REUTERS In 2016, 64,000 people died from drugoverdoses in the U.S.,...
The most recent stats show the number of people dying from overdoses on the job has increased by 32% in one year. Opioid abuse in the US is staggering. One place you may not think of it being a problem is at work, but the most recent stats show the number of people...
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