When Parents Struggle With Addiction, What Happens To Their Kids?
It’s been declared a national public health emergency. In the United States, the annual number of deaths from opioid overdose has surpassed the number of deaths during the height of the AIDS epidemic...
View ArticleNurses' Drug Abuse Top Cause Of Disciplining, But Once Sober, Some Nurses Get...
Out of work and addicted to the anti-anxiety medication Klonopin, Heather Delaney, a licensed practical nurse from Stratford, checked herself into Bridgeport Hospital in 2011 when she could no longer...
View ArticlePurdue Pharma To End Marketing Of Oxycontin
Purdue Pharma, the Stamford-based maker of Oxycontin, says it will no longer be marketing its bestselling opioid to physicians.
View ArticleDrugmakers Spent Millions Promoting Opioids To Patient Groups, Senate Report...
Drugmakers gave millions of dollars to pain-treatment advocacy groups over a five-year period beginning in 2012, in effect promoting opioids to individuals most vulnerable to addiction, according to a...
View ArticlePanel Looks At Community's Role In Addressing Opioid Crisis
It’s the deadliest drug crisis in our nation’s history and communities in Connecticut are coming together to talk about solutions. This hour, we listen back to a recent opioid panel recorded at Gateway...
View ArticleWhere In Connecticut Are Overdoses Driving Hospital Visits?
Figures on overdose deaths grab headlines, but treatment data could save lives. In response, health officials have released new information on emergency room visits for drug overdoses, numbers that...
View ArticleFentanyl-Laced Cocaine Could Be 'Next Wave' Of Opioid Crisis, Some Warn
A pipe was the only sign of drug use near Chris Bennetts body, in November. But it looked like the 32-year-old Taunton native had stopped breathing and died of an opioid overdose. Bennetts mother Liisa...
View ArticleWhat Happens To Children When Their Parents Struggle With Addiction?
When it comes to the nation’s opioid crisis, substance abuse affects more than the addict. More and more children are entering the foster care system every year at an unprecedented rate.
View ArticleConnecticut State Medical Society Backs Push For More People To Carry Naloxone
As opioid overdose deaths rapidly increase, the U.S. Surgeon General is urging more people to carry naloxone, the overdose-reversal drug. The recommendation is strongly supported by The Connecticut...
View ArticleConnecticut Joins Online Campaign To Combat Opioid Crisis
Connecticut is one of the first states to join a new effort to combat the opioid crisis. MedicineSafe aims to coordinate the efforts of many different agencies in keeping addictive painkillers out of...
View ArticleBreaking Up (With Your Phone) Is Hard To Do
Nearly ninety-percent of Americans own a smartphone. On average, we spend more than four hours a day on our phones, which adds up to about 56 full days a year. That's like sealing yourself in a room on...
View ArticleNew Haven Community Health Center To Expand Addiction Treatment Facility
The Connecticut State Bond Commission approved funding for several community health centers in the state last week, including money to expand opioid addiction treatment at one facility in New Haven.
View ArticleDigital Project To Help Families Struggling With Addiction Reaches Connecticut
The Addiction Resource Center (ARC) is an interactive website that provides information about substance use disorders as well as local addiction treatment centers and health care providers.
View ArticleWhat You Need To Know About K2
New Haven, Connecticut was the site of more than 100 overdoses last week -- drawing national attention to the city and to a synthetic drug known as K2. But what exactly is this drug? And how did it...
View ArticleSugar Highs (And Lows): A History of "White Gold"
The history of sugar is a complicated one. Once available to only the rich and powerful, sugar now shows up in everything from cereals and soups, to cigarettes and body scrubs. It is known to both have...
View ArticleWhat We Know After The New Haven Green K2 Poisonings
Firefighters, police, and medics were among an army of first responders on the New Haven Green last week after reports of people losing consciousness, vomiting, and falling to the ground started...
View ArticleBreaking Up (With Your Phone) Is Hard To Do
Nearly ninety-percent of Americans own a smartphone. On average, we spend more than four hours a day on our phones, which adds up to about 56 full days a year. That's like sealing yourself in a room on...
View ArticleHow Did America Become So "Dopesick"?
This hour: pain, pharma, and the birth of a nation plagued by opioid abuse and overdose. We talk to Beth Macy , author of Dopesick , about her investigation into the development, marketing, and...
View ArticleHow Did A Giant Heroin Spoon Sculpture Land In Front Of Purdue Pharma's HQ?
One morning last June, a giant sculpture of a heroin spoon was dropped on the campus of Purdue Pharma in Stamford. It was a piece of protest art meant to hold the pharmaceutical company responsible for...
View ArticleConnecticut Community Health Centers Get Federal Money To Combat Opioid...
Connecticut will benefit from almost $6 million in federal funding for organizations combating the opioid addiction crisis. The Department of Health and Human Services is awarding a total of $400...
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