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One pound of fentanyl can make up to 500,000 pills, which often mimic prescription opioid pills.

As the opioid crisis peaks, meth and cocaine deaths explode

May 21, 2019 ◇ Christine Vestal/Stateline

It turns out that the same lethal drug that has been driving the nation’s spiraling opioid epidemic, fentanyl, is also causing an historic surge in overdose deaths among cocaine users. Read more»

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Dr. Daniel Budnitz, at his office at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Ga. Budnitz has campaigned to have flow restrictors -- safety plastic devices fitted into the necks of medicine bottles to slow the release of fluid -- added to all liquid medicines, but so far he’s had limited success.

The fix isn’t in: Why a safety device that can stop overdoses by kids isn’t widely used

Jan 1, 2014 ◇ T. Christian Miller & Jeff Gerth/ProPublica

Today, the promise to make medicine safer for kids remains largely unfulfilled, hindered by industry cost concerns and inaction by federal regulators, an examination by ProPublica found. Read more»


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