Prescription Drug Overdoses: An American Epidemic

Prescription Drug Overdoses: An American Epidemic – The United States is in the grip of an epidemic of prescription drug overdoses. Over 27000 people died from overdoses in 2007, a number that has risen five-fold since 1990 and has never been higher. Prescription drugs are now involved in more overdose deaths than heroin and cocaine combined. For health professionals, policymakers and legislators, addressing this problem is complicated—while they push for education, prevention, and enforcement to reverse this epidemic, they must also ensure that patients with a legitimate need for these medications still have access to them. This important session of Public Health Grand Rounds will address these challenges and explore the innovative state and federal policies and interventions that are showing promise in reducing injury and death from this epidemic. Comments on this video are allowed in accordance with our comment policy: www.cdc.gov This video can also be viewed at www.cdc.gov

Health and Human Services Committee; work sessions; room 209; Cross Building

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L.D. 257, "An Act To Protect Newborns Exposed to Drugs or Alcohol": Once a health care provider has notified the Department of Health and Human Services of an infant from birth to 12 months of prenatal alcohol or drug exposure, DHHS must prepare a plan …
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Neal: Laughable left-wing intolerance

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Outside of that, a host of poor outcomes is evident: higher poverty rates, lower levels of educational attainment, greater substance abuse (smoking, drinking, and drug use), having sex at an early age, which means they are often young and unmarried …
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