(The Hill) – Teen overdose deaths have doubled in three years, an alarming trend amid a historic decline in drug and alcohol use among high school students. The main reason is fentanyl.
Across Canada, the burden of premature opioid-related deaths doubled between 2019 and 2021, representing more than ...
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends offering buprenorphine to teens addicted to opioids. But only 6% of pediatricians report ever doing so.
Despite an overall decrease in drug use among teens compared to prior years, one startling trend accelerated – drug overdose deaths ... have shown that there are three particularly vulnerable ...
Tanner Welsh’s 108-month sentence to federal prison will be followed by three years of supervised release ... officers responded to a fatal overdose of the teen. Police located several small ...
Tanner Welsh, 21, was sentenced to 108 months in federal prison and three years supervised ... found that the teen had exchanged several texts with Welsh before their overdose, which was in ...
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), there were 884 teen overdose deaths from illicit fentanyls and synthetics in 2021, up from 680 in 2020 and 253 in 2019.
An Odessa man was sentenced in federal court in Midland to 20 years in prison for Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to ...
West Virginia’s drug overdose death rate has skyrocketed since 2005 when it averaged 10.5 deaths per 100,000 residents. The rate has nearly doubled ... over the past three years.