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More Dogs and Cats Are Being Unintentionally Poisoned by Illicit Drugs in Their Homes
An increasing number of dogs and cats are being exposed to cocaine and methamphetamine left out in their owners’ homes, new study finds.
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OD Deaths Decline in U.S., Driven By Drop In Opioid Fatalities
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- February 21, 2025
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America’s opioid crisis is showing signs of subsiding, a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says.
Drug overdose deaths (OD) decreased by 4% between 2022 and 2023, according to the CDC’s National Center for Health Statist...
Fatal Opioid-Meth Overdoses Have Fallen in U.S. by More Than a Third
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- October 22, 2024
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Expanded access to addiction treatment and the overdose-reversal med naloxone likely prompted a 37% reduction in OD deaths linked to opioids taken with meth or other s...
Recreational Drug Use Triples Odds for Repeat Heart Crises
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- August 28, 2024
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Recreational drug users are three times more likely to have repeated heart health emergencies than people who don’t use, a new study has found.
About 11% of patients admitted to intensive cardiac care units have been using recreational drugs, said researcher
Two-Drug Treatment Could Curb Meth Addiction
- Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter
- June 10, 2024
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Though overdose deaths continue to surge, there is no approved medication to treat methamphetamine use disorder.
Now, an experimental two-drug therapy has yielded promising results, UCLA researchers report.
"These findings have important implications for pharmacolo...