Medical overdose epidemic takes deadly turn

Medical overdose epidemic takes deadly turn

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Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention note that drug poisoning has increased by more than 300 percent over the last three decades, mainly from unintentional overdoses of narcotics, hallucinogens and other drugs. According to …
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AGs Urge FDA To Rethink High-Powered Painkiller Approval

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The state officials claim the high-dose painkiller is as much as 10 times more powerful than typical hydrocodone-based drugs, and argue that the availability of Zohydro risks further worsening a national prescription drug abuse problem that has risen …
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Using Social Networks To Track And Predict Gun Violence

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David Kennedy, director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, first started pinpointing much of cities' lethal gun violence to small networks in Boston nearly 20 years ago. But new … By targeting …
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