Por: The New York Times Health March 10, 2023
Opioids were the leading cause of fatal poisonings among children age 5 years old and younger in recent years, a study has found, underscoring how the opioid epidemic has not spared children.The study, published on Wednesday , analyzed 731 poisoning-related deaths that occurred from 2005 to 2018 across 40 states. The authors found that opioids, a class of synthetic drugs that includes prescribed pain relievers but also illegal narcotics such as... + full article
ABC7 USA Health March 09, 2023
It truly is striking to see, looking at this data, how different the proportions were between 2005 and 2018, said study co-author Dr. Christopher Gaw, an associate fellow at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia whose research primarily focuses on pediatric injury and... + más
Even in best-case scenario, opioid overdose deaths will keep rising until 2022 | Los Angeles Times
Group makes first funding award to combat opioid epidemic | Associated Press
Portland Press Herald USA Opinion February 27, 2023
Ten years ago, Lewiston’s Tree Streets Neighborhood was “ground zero” for childhood lead poisoning in Maine. Children living in century-old apartment buildings there suffered from rates of childhood lead poisoning at a level that was three times higher than the state... + más
What is mercury and lead poisoning? HGTV's Christina Hall reveals diagnosis | Newsweek
Lead poisoning takes toll in Central Falls | The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe USA Nation January 19, 2023
PROVIDENCE — On the Rhode Island Report podcast, Central Falls Mayor Maria Rivera recalled hearing from a family who was desperate to find a new apartment because their twin children had high levels of lead poisoning.And Rhode Island PBS Weekly reporter Michelle San Miguel... + más
Christina Hall recovers in hyperbaric chamber after revealing she has lead and mercury poisoning | Fox News
The Boston Globe USA Nation January 11, 2023
In another troubling finding on persistent racial disparities in medicine, a new study from researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute found that elderly Black and Hispanic patients with advanced cancer are less likely than white patients to receive opioid medications for... + más
Legalizing weed reduced opioid use in America's cancer patients | Newsweek
Hispanic and Latino workers deserve equal economic opportunity, not a return to the pre-pandemic status quo | MarketWatch
Newsweek USA Health December 23, 2022
Real estate investor and TV personality Christina Hall blames her mercury and lead poisoning on all of the gross houses she's been in.The reality star informed her social media followers of her diagnosis on Thursday, after getting some quantum biofeedback. The diagnosis led... + más
Why did Christina change her last name to Haack? The 'Flip or Flop' star has used four different last names | Fox News
Los Angeles Times USA Opinion December 23, 2022
The U.S. remains in the midst of an ever-worsening drug overdose crisis. Because prescription opioids drove its earlier phases, the nation responded by drastically reducing access to those drugs — with prescriptions dropping by nearly 50% over the last decade. But it’s now... + más
CDC issues updated guidance on prescribing opioids | The Hill
CDC releases new, more flexible guidelines for prescribing opioids | The Boston Globe
Los Angeles Times USA Science December 23, 2022
The U.S. opioid crisis has passed a dubious milestone: Overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids like illicit fentanyl have surpassed deaths involving prescription opioids. This switch occurred in 2016, according to data published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical... + más
Rainbow Fentanyl: What it looks like and what happens if you overdose | Newsweek
US Federal Drug Agents Seize Enough Fentanyl In 2022 That Can Potentially Kill Every American | RTTNews
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