These trends suggest the “pediatric opioid crisis is changing in ways that will make it harder to combat,” Gaither said.A collection of the most famous cases faced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless creation, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes contains an introduction by Iain Pears and notes by Ed Glinert in Penguin Classics. Multiple drugs can be reported on one death certificate, and fentanyl is often found along with others, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Īmong children and teens, benzodiazepines - medications commonly prescribed to treat conditions such as anxiety and insomnia - as well as cocaine or psychostimulants were also ingested more than a third of the time, according to the new study. Fentanyl was involved in about two-thirds of overall overdose deaths for people of all ages. The Covid-19 pandemic also exacerbated the drug epidemic, with overdose deaths reaching record levels in 2021. The number of deadly poisonings among children under 5 had been decreasing since the passage of the Poison Prevention Packaging Act in 1970, when harder-to-open childproof packaging became a standard for many medicines, other studies have shown.īut illicitly used drugs like fentanyl, which is 100 times stronger than morphine and can kill quickly, don’t come in childproof packaging. Narcan nasal spray maker aims for over-the-counter price of less than $50 (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service/Getty Images A number of branches in the Chicago Public Library system have Narcan available. The two doses of Narcan which can be given for a opioid overdose in an emergency situation.
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