Action is needed today on the Addiction epidemic

Addiction is killing our youth and adults more so today than ever before. Chris Christie is back working with Trump to take on the opiate epidemic. Click here for more news on today's discussion. 

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You Probably Know Someone...

Specifically, what can this blog do to help readers and their needs?

I know families, friends, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives who are facing the devastating effects of opioids. With the ability to change the mental and physical chemicals in the human brain. Opioids have the ability to run or take control of individuals and their families in ways which were once thought was not possible. Your "standard" addict is obviously not your IV heroin abuser, but includes every and all persons of varied occupations, incomes, groups.

Pain pills are highly accessible for one thing and as we see their price increasing, the price of heroin a much faster acting and dirtier drug is often combined with other drugs. Unfortunately, these and other drugs of abuse are landing many of our loved ones in Emergency Rooms with Overdoses and often death. If those reading this blog think that individual who have drug dependence want to continue living their lives that way, I have news for you, they don't, many of them are embarrassed and it is one of the toughest illnesses to battle.

The fight is just beginning and we need to continue to fight. If you know someone that needs help, then help them. .

Deaths from Opiates in Rhode Island

Four more people have died of suspected drug overdoses in Rhode Island in the last week, bringing the total this year to 49, according to the state health director last Wednesday. The number of people who have died of accidental overdoses in the first eight weeks of 2014 is about 2 X the normal rate. Overdose deaths have been associated with fentanyl mixed with heroin. In Rhode Island in 2009-2010 most deaths from accidental drug overdose were Men between the ages of 40-49. In 2011 Men between ages of 50-59. In Rhode Island in 2009-2012 deaths from accidental overdose was more common among Women  between the ages of 50-59. According to data most have been associated with opioids alone and not alcoholic. Fatal overdoses from prescription painkillers have reached epidemic proportions, according to a new report from the CDC. In 2008, the report showed, drugs like OxyContin and Vicodin claimed almost 5,000 lives. That's almost three times as many lives as in 1999, the Associated Press reported. Fatal overdoses are especially common among middle-aged men, whites, and American Indians, according to reports

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