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2003 The New York Times journalist Barry Meier, published Pain Killer: A Wonder Drug's Trail of Addiction and Death, [18] A 2004 New York Times review of Pain Killer, described how "For years, doctors who prescribed OxyContin were told that the risk of addiction to the painkiller was less than 1 percent. Only after the drug had devastated ...
Heroin addiction began to make the news around 1970 when rock star Janis Joplin died from an overdose. During and after the Vietnam War, addicted soldiers returned from Vietnam, where heroin was easily bought. Heroin addiction grew within low-income housing projects during the same time period. [63]
President George H. W. Bush holds up a bag of crack cocaine during his Address to the Nation on National Drug Control Strategy on September 5, 1989.. The crack epidemic was a surge of crack cocaine use in major cities across the United States throughout the entirety of the 1980s and the early 1990s.
Fentanyl caused the most deaths – 2,541 – followed by cocaine (1,149) and methamphetamine (995). The United States overall saw a 3 percent drop in overdose deaths in 2023, according to the U.S ...
The implication that Bondi's anti-drug efforts succeeded in reducing overdose deaths does not find much support in data reported by the Florida Department of Health. The age-adjusted rate of ...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, seen here signing a retail theft bill into law Tuesday, April 9 in Stuart, signed two drug bills Monday and expanded the state's addiction recovery program.
With the increase in volume, the potency of opioids also increased. By 2002, one in six drug users were being prescribed drugs more powerful than morphine; by 2012, the ratio had doubled to one in three. [18] The most commonly prescribed opioids have been oxycodone and hydrocodone. The epidemic has been described as a "uniquely American problem ...
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