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The opioid crisis is the worst addiction epidemic in U.S. history. Drug overdoses kill nearly 64,000 people per year, and the nation’s life expectancy has fallen for two years in a row. But statistics alone can’t tell the story. TIME commissioned veteran conflict photographer James Nachtwey to document this crisis over the past year through the people living it every day.

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    Attorney General Russell Coleman announced nearly 8,000 doses of Naloxone – an opioid overdose reversal drug – have been delivered to distribution sites across Kentucky this week, including to ...
    05/31/2024 - 5:35 pm | View Link
  • New vending machines unveiled in Chicago area to fight opioid crisis
    The Pace Bus Company revealed new vending machines at its bus terminal in the southwest suburbs to help fight the opioid crisis.
    05/31/2024 - 12:23 pm | View Link
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    As the lights of the largest electronic dance festival in North America dimmed, a new kind of illumination emerged from the glow of a medicine reversing opioid ...
    05/31/2024 - 8:34 am | View Link
  • County to hand out more opioid settlement money
    The $26 billion national opioid settlement was finalized in 2021, and those determined to have had a hand in creating the opioid crisis will pay that amount over the next ...
    05/31/2024 - 7:17 am | View Link
  • Westchester distributes over $4.1 million from opioid settlement: Where the money went
    George Latimer said the county has already distributed over $4.1 million to prevention and treatment programs from the 2019 lawsuit.
    05/31/2024 - 6:50 am | View Link
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  • What are opioids and why are they dangerous?
    Opioids are a broad group of pain-relieving medicines that work with your brain cells. Opioids can be made from the poppy plant — for example, morphine (Duramorph, MS Contin, others). Or opioids can be made in a laboratory — for example, fentanyl (Actiq and Fentora).
    05/31/2024 - 10:22 am | View Website
  • Prescription Opioids DrugFacts | National Institute on Drug Abuse
    Opioids are a class of drugs naturally found in the opium poppy plant. Some prescription opioids are made from the plant directly, and others are made by scientists in labs using the same chemical structure. Opioids are often used as medicines because they contain chemicals that relax the body and can relieve pain.
    05/31/2024 - 4:03 am | View Website
  • Opioid
    Legal status. In Wikidata. Opioids are a class of drugs that derive from, or mimic, natural substances found in the opium poppy plant. Opioids work in the brain to produce a variety of effects, including pain relief. As a class of substances, they act on opioid receptors to produce morphine -like effects.
    05/30/2024 - 3:10 pm | View Website
  • Opioids | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
    Opioids. Submitted by krice on Wed, 05/01/2019 - 07:32. Patients who report no past 12 months opioid use are currently at minimal risk for adverse outcomes associated with opioid use. Note: Those who report opioid use in previous years but have not used in the past 12 months are at risk for relapse . Display Title.
    05/30/2024 - 10:02 am | View Website
  • Opioids: What They Are, Side Effects & Disorders
    Common opioids include morphine, oxycodone, Oxycontin®, hydrocodone, fentanyl and others. All opiates are opioids, but not all opioids are opiates. But opioids and opiates have the same effects on your body because they have similar molecules and they both have high addiction potential.
    05/30/2024 - 8:43 am | View Website
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