Accidental drug-poisoning deaths on the rise
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NEW YORK  - Unintentional deaths due to drug poisoning -- primarily with prescription drugs -- increased by 68 percent between 1999 and 2004, and is second only to motor vehicle crashes as a cause of death from unintentional injury in the US, investigators at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.
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Our position is: Greater drug safety needs to be coupled with awareness that some risk is inherent in medicine. When it comes to assurances of drug safety, consumers would be advised to heed George Bernard Shaw&#39;s warning to beware of what they wish for.
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In the wake of more than 400 deaths nationwide from heroin laced with the painkiller fentanyl, some needle exchange programs are giving addicts prescriptions for a drug to keep on hand to halt an overdose.
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The spate of bad news about painkillers has dealt a major setback to what had been a highly promising effort to use the drugs to prevent a host of leading killers.
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The risk of intestinal damage from common painkillers may be higher than thought, research suggests.
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Â· Number of people treated almost doubles Â· Focus on heroin and crack 'should be reviewed'
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The public shouldn&#39;t have to wonder if the medicines they take are going to cure them or kill them. Recent suspicions that a number of painkillers carry potential health risks suggests the agency responsible
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Government statisticians reported a sharp rise in death rates for adults of virtually all ages and both sexes from 1997 to 2004.
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TUESDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) -- A new study adds to growing evidence that antipsychotic drugs raise death rates among elderly people, who are sometimes given them when their behavioral problems become too much for doctors or families to handle.
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Medics fear public safety could be compromised by the growing interest in using drugs for law enforcement.
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The actor Heath Ledger died from an accidental overdose of six different drugs Â painkillers and sedatives Â the medical examiner said Wednesday, leading doctors to warn of the dangers of mixing prescription drugs.
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THURSDAY, Aug. 19 (HealthDayNews) -- There's no 'grace period' when it comes to use of injection drugs like heroin or cocaine: A new study in Addiction finds teenage and young adult users triple their risk for death soon after taking up the habit.
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The spate of bad news about painkillers has dealt a major setback to what had been a highly promising effort to use the drugs to prevent a host of leading killers, including many types of cancer, Alzheimer&#39;s disease and other forms of dementia.
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The spate of bad news about painkillers has dealt a major setback to what had been a highly promising effort to use the drugs to prevent a host of leading killers, including many types of cancer, Alzheimer&#39;s and other forms of dementia.
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Tens of thousands of people may have been seriously harmed by the painkiller Vioxx, and many more may be at risk from taking other popular drugs of the same class, known
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Thirty-four people have died so far this year in Travis County from a heroin overdose, up from 23 last year. Authorities believe a particularly potent strain of heroin being smuggled into the United States and circulating on the streets of the Texas Capital is partly to blame for the highest number of heroin deaths in Austin since 1992.
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Abuse of prescription drugs is about to exceed the use of illicit street narcotics worldwide, and the shift has spawned a lethal new trade in counterfeit painkillers, sedatives and other medicines potent enough to kill, a global watchdog warned Wednesday.