Budzinski Joins Overdose, Addiction Working Groups
Congress
Budzinski Joins Overdose, Addiction Working Groups
2023-03-29 18:20:27
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — Rep. Nikki Budzinski, D-Ill., has joined the Bipartisan Fentanyl Prevention Caucus and the Bipartisan Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Task Force where, she says, she will work across the aisle on solutions to the ongoing addiction crisis. ... Read More

<strong>Overdose Deaths Spiked During First Year of Pandemic</strong>
In The States
Overdose Deaths Spiked During First Year of Pandemic
2022-03-03 00:45:04
by Dan McCue

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Overdose deaths, most of them attributable to opioid abuse, surged in the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control reported Wednesday. In the latest edition of its annual Drug Overdose... Read More

Suicides and Overdoses Among Factors Fueling Drop in US Life Expectancy
Research
Suicides and Overdoses Among Factors Fueling Drop in US Life Expectancy

It’s official: Americans are dying much sooner in life. Preliminary signals of declining health were neither a false alarm nor a statistical fluke. A reversal of American life expectancy, a downward trend that has now been sustained for three years... Read More

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