Across New York, overdose deaths are skyrocketing. But state officials are stalling on an evidence-based model that works.
Albany, NY—At the front of the rally, a middle-aged woman in a pink fur coat held a cardboard tombstone with a name: Jeff Dugan. Someone had also pasted two photographs on it: In one,
U.S. college students can recognize signs of an opioid overdose and want to help when they witness one. But many do not know how to reverse an overdose with the drug naloxone.
Among surveyed undergraduate and graduate students, 62 percent could identify at least one symptom of an opioid overdose and 67 percent were comfortable with calling emergency services in the event of an overdose. But there was less awareness of naloxone, the opioid overdose-reversal drug: 30 percent knew what
Princess Beatrice is said to be heartbroken by the news her former partner Paolo Liuzzo has died aged after a suspected drug overdose.
Beatrice, the daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, dated Liuzzo in 2005 when she was 17 and he was 24, but they separated just the following year in 2006.
Despite their seven year age gap and already having a criminal past, Liuzzo was said to be Beatrice’s first love and he was her first public boyfriend.
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Adam Harrisonder Sohn von Bauernsterne Reality-Star Rick Harrison ist im Alter von 39 Jahren verstorben.
Laut einem Vertreter der Familie Harrison war Adams Tod die Folge einer tödlichen Überdosis. Die Familie erhielt die herzzerreißende Nachricht am Freitag, den 19. Januar.
The Von Erich family, originally from Texas, is well known in the wrestling world – but it is perhaps even more notorious for its ‘curse’ – which saw a members racked by a string of fatal tragedies.
By the time star athlete and patriarch Fritz, dubbed ‘The Iron Claw’ in the ring due to a signature move, died at the age of 68 in 1997, five of his six sons had already lost their lives; three of them by suicide.
Angus Cloud’s mother reported a “possible overdose” to 911 before her son was pronounced dead on Monday, July 31, Us Weekly can confirm.
The Oakland Police Department responded to Cloud’s residence on Monday around 11:30 a.m. PT. after Cloud’s mom called dispatch and revealed her son did not have a pulse. First responders later pronounced the actor dead on the scene. He was 25.
Details of the heartbreaking 911 call came shortly after news broke on Monday that Cloud had
Married at First Sight alum Doug Hehner overdosed on opioids nearly 12 years ago — but he only just told his wife, Jamie Otis, the story.
“We are recording the podcast and somehow [it] always becomes a therapy session for us,” Otis, 37, said in a tearful Instagram video on Thursday, July 27. “The five-star review [a listener submitted], someone mentioned the loss of her brother from drugs and then it just caused Doug to feel like he could
Rapper Coolio died from a fentanyl overdose aged 59 in September 2022.
The Gangsta’s Paradise hitmaker, whose real name was Artis Leon Ivey Jr, also had traces of heroin and methamphetamines in his system when he was found dead on September 28 on the bathroom floor of a friend’s LA home.
Other significant conditions listed on Coolio’s death certificate include severe asthma, cardiomyopathy (an acquired or hereditary disease of heart muscle which can lead to heart failure) and recent use
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Observers disagree about law enforcement’s case against Donald Trump, the former president whose Florida mansion was recently searched by federal officials in pursuit of classified documents. None of us knows whether Trump will face charges––or the
