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Despite pharma claims, illicit drug shipments to US aren’t full of opioids. It’s generic Viagra

For years, the FDA has defended its efforts to intercept prescription drugs coming from abroad by mail as necessary to keep out dangerous opioids, including fentanyl.

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Do prescription opioids impact cognitive function in older adults?

Prescription opioid use could have a negative effect on cognitive function in older adults, according to a recent Mayo Clinic study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

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Prescriptions for opioids ‘fall by almost half-a-million over last four years’

New figures were published by NHS England.

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Addiction treatment may be coming to a pharmacy near you

Despite an overdose epidemic that killed 107,000 people last year, nearly 9 in 10 Americans who need medication to treat their addiction to deadly opioids aren’t receiving it.

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Axios-Ipsos poll: Republicans call opioids No. 1 health threat

Democrats see guns as the biggest threat to Americans’ public health, while Republicans say it’s fentanyl and opioid addiction.

Axios

As opioids mixed with animal tranquilizers arrive in Philly neighborhood, so do alarming health challenges

PHILADELPHIA — Many people living on the streets in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood — the largest open-air drug market on the East Coast — are in full-blown addiction, openly snorting, smoking or injecting illicit drugs, hunched over crates or on stoops. Syringes litter sidewalks, and the stench of urine fouls the…

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States, cities scramble to combat animal ‘tranq’ in street drugs

As a dangerous new additive found in fentanyl and other street drugs surges from coast to coast, health officials in nearly every state are scrambling to track it.

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The Fight To Criminalize Opioid Prescribing

Over 88 percent of opioid overdose deaths now involve either heroin or fentanyl. Targeting prescriptions is not an efficient way to address mortality.

Reason

Analysis-Canada's decriminalization experiment no match for toxic drug supply

A Canadian experiment to decriminalize small amounts of hard drugs could reduce stigma and police run-ins for addicts but does little to tackle a bigger problem of overdose deaths from drugs adulterated with lethal ingredients.

Reuters

Lisa Marie Presley lost 40-50 pounds, took opioids before death, report says

Lisa Marie Presley was taking opioids and weight loss medication before her death this month, according to a report.

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Lisa Marie Presley 'lost 3 stone for award season and was back on opioids' before death

Lisa Marie Presley reportedly wanted to look her best for the awards season and lost around three stone in the weeks leading up to her tragic death at the age of 54

Daily Mirror

As overdose deaths climb in NYC, East Harlem residents say a safe space for users is hurting their neighborhood

NEW YORK — As the death toll from opioids skyrockets in New York, the role of supervised drug injection centers in reducing fatalities has been a key focus of attention.

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Commentary: Opioids don’t do enough for chronic pain sufferers

Chronic pain affects 1 in 6 people in the United States and around the world, and is the most common cause of disability. Yet medicine’s desperate attempts to treat chronic pain sparked the opioid epidemic. And while many promising non-opioid therapies exist, some of them newly developed, patients face innumerable…

Los Angeles Times

Blinken: 2 years into Biden term, US 'in a better place'

Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that two years into President Joe Biden’s administration, the United States is “in a better place in the world” and better positioned to address global issues including climate change, COVID-19 and dangerous opioids

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The struggles Lisa Marie Presley faced from son's suicide, divorces, drug and alcohol abuse

Singer Lisa Marie Presley has died at the age of 54 after a reported heart attack.

Daily Mirror

Lisa Marie Presley's tragic life: Michael Jackson marriage, son suicide and addiction

Elvis Presley's only daughter Lisa Marie Presley's life was full of challenging heartbreaks since being thrust into the limelight at a young age due to her father's huge worldwide fame

ABC News

Raised in the shadow of Elvis Presley's death, Lisa Marie Presley endured multiple divorces, tragedy and a drug addiction

She was the only child of one of the most famous couples in the world — and part of one of the most tragic families.

The Independent UK

Lisa Marie Presley death: Only child of Elvis Presley dead aged 54 after hospitalisation

‘She was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I have ever known,’ mother Priscilla says in statement

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The Independent UK

Priscilla Presley says daughter Lisa Marie has been ‘rushed to hospital’ following reported cardiac arrest

Singer was in attendance at the recent Golden Globes on Tuesday 10 January

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Editorial: Delay in making naloxone an over-the-counter drug to counter opioid overdoses was deadly

It's been six years since a startling story in The New York Times detailed how fatal opioid overdoses were tearing through rural regions of the United States "like a plow through soil." The report came as the nation was beginning to grasp that it faced the deadliest wave of drug…

The Conversation

How does methadone work as a heroin-replacement therapy? And what about the longer-acting buprenorphine?

Around 1% of Australian adults have tried heroin in their lifetime and 2.7% have used pharmaceutical opioids for non-medical purposes in the past 12 months.

France 24

Biden heads to Mexico with immigration, fentanyl on the agenda

US President Joe Biden will seek Mexico's help tackling illegal flows of migrants and drugs, particularly deadly opioids, during a visit beginning Sunday for a North American leaders' summit.

Salon

NY docs must give naloxone with opioids

A new New York law aims to ensure that naloxone is available if needed by people who take prescription opioids

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New York doctors are now required to prescribe naloxone to some patients on opioid painkillers

Without opioid painkillers to dull the ache in his knees and other joints, Arnold Wilson wouldn’t be able to walk half a block. The 63-year-old former New York City nurse has crippling arthritis for which he takes OxyContin twice a day and oxycodone when he needs additional relief.

The Independent UK

Feds sue drug wholesaler AmerisourceBergen over opioid sales

The U.S. Justice Department is alleging that a major drug wholesaler contributed to the deadly toll from opioids by turning a blind eye to warning signs about suspicious sales to its pharmacy customers

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