A 17-year-old boy with shaggy blond hair stepped onto the scale at Tri-River Family Health Center in Uxbridge, Massachusetts.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends offering buprenorphine to teens addicted to opioids. But only 6% of pediatricians report ever doing so.
In fact, buprenorphine prescriptions for adolescents were declining as overdose deaths for 10- to 19-year-olds more than doubled ... two or three years ago," Julie said. "Would it have changed ...
Colin Andrew Shapard, 23, was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison followed by three years of supervised ... he was already responsible for the deaths of two young teens.
“During the past three years, our community ... the North County saw 70 fentanyl overdose deaths in 2022 but 46 in 2023. South County fentanyl deaths doubled from 33 in 2021 to 66 in 2023.
Deadly, addictive fentanyl has certainly earned the spotlight when it comes to overdose ... Deaths related to psychostimulant use have more than doubled in California over just three years ...
In a twisted, deadly development, drug use among adolescents has declined — but drug-associated deaths are up. The main culprits are fake Xanax, Adderall, or Percocet pills laced with the powerful ...
Despite this, teen drug overdose deaths have been on the rise in recent years. Monthly overdose deaths among youth aged 10-19 more than doubled from ... said Martz. Three key functions of the ...
In fact, buprenorphine prescriptions for adolescents were declining as overdose deaths for 10- to 19-year-olds more than doubled ... two or three years ago,” Julie said.
One is that teen overdose deaths have sharply risen, with fentanyl-involved deaths among adolescents doubling from 2019 to 2020 and remaining at that level in the subsequent years. Dr. Nora Volkow ...
The number of suicides among US college student athletes has doubled over the past ... calculated that there were nine deaths every two years in male athletes; three deaths every two years in ...