Opioid Overdoses Claim More Lives Than Car Crashes As of January 2019, the amount of fatal opioid overdoses has officially surpassed the number of individuals who have lost their lives in car accidents. Reports concluded that the odds of losing your life...
The Dangerous Effects of Fentanyl Makes This a Life-Threatening Drug Fentanyl is part of the family of drugs called opioids. Opioids work by attaching to brain receptors which have various bodily responses. When administered as a controlled prescription substance, a feeling of...
Dangers of Fake Xanax: Laced Xanax Leading to Numerous Deaths Xanax, or alprazolam, is a medication that has been used to successfully treat many people for panic attacks and anxiety disorders. It belongs to the class of drugs known as benzodiazepines, and...
Meth Death Rate Indicates The Problem is Far From Over With the current opioid death tolls totaling around 115 people each day, according to the CDC, it’s easy for many people to forget some of the other drugs that filled news reports...
Staggering Statistics for Opioid Overdose Deaths: 30% Jump in Just a Year There is a flood of statistics coming out from the CDC and other private and government agencies about the state of the opioid crisis in the US, such as 115...
Learn what happens to your body when you overdose, how long effects last, and the options for drug overdose treatment The National Institute on Drug Abuse reports that drug abuse is on the rise. The number of drug overdoses in the United...
“May you live all the days of your life.” -Jonathan Swift Recently, the medicine has been getting a good amount of attention. This is because doctors say naloxone: the anti-overdose drug, can reverse the effects of an overdose of heroin or other...