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# opioids - Monday 16 September, 2019
Pharma giant Purdue files for bankruptcy in bid to settle US opioid crisis cases
The cases against Purdue seek to address the costs of millions of Americans sinking into addiction.
# opioids - Tuesday 27 August, 2019
Pharma company that makes painkiller Oxycontin to offer over $10 billion to settle claims in US
Purdue Pharma said it “sees little good coming from years of wasteful litigation”.
# opioids - Thursday 13 September, 2018
The rise of opiates: How Ireland's 'broken' health service is behind a surge in prescription painkillers
The use of powerful painkillers has gradually risen in recent years.
# opioids - Saturday 2 June, 2018
One in every five young adult deaths in the US is related to opioids
The study found that the percentage of deaths attributed to opioids in the US increased by 292% from 2001 to 2016.
# opioids - Thursday 5 April, 2018
Americans urged to carry overdose antidote in effort to tackle drug deaths
The US’s chief doctor has issued his office’s first national public health advisory in 13 years.
# opioids - Saturday 20 January, 2018
Singer Tom Petty died of accidental drug overdose, medical examiner says
The 66-year-old passed away on 3 October 2017.
# opioids - Sunday 13 August, 2017
Two million people are addicted to opioid drugs in US, with 90 dying every day
Many people buy pills illegally when their prescriptions run out.
# opioids - Saturday 17 December, 2016
There's been a surge in the number of US babies born with heroin withdrawal symptoms
The problem is particularly bad in rural areas.
# opioids - Sunday 21 August, 2016
New painkiller is as powerful as morphine - but without the dangerous side-effects
The synthetic drug, PZM21, also does not produce addiction.
# opioids - Thursday 2 June, 2016
Prince died from an overdose, says law-enforcement official
The official has spoken anonymously to the Associated Press.
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Poll: Would you go to a socially-distanced concert?
CONCERTS AND MANY other events have, of course, been cancelled during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Images of a socially-distanced concert in England were widely shared during the week.
Fans at the Sam Fender concert at the Virgin Money Unity Arena, a pop-up venue in Gosforth Park, Newcastle, watched the outdoor concert in groups of up to five people from 500 separate raised metal platforms.
Promoters described the event as the world’s first socially-distanced gig. Some people thought the layout looked great, while others were not so sure.
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Dr Anthony O'Connor: 'The rhetoric of “all being in it together” is dead'
By Dr Anthony O'Connor - @Antcon7062
Open Letter from Ireland's psychologists: 'Direct Provision is causing untold psychological harm'
By Psychologists for Social Change Ireland
“As a country we must do better,” according to about 150 signatories.
What we can learn from the world's 'Blue Zones' - where people regularly live into their 90s and 100s
By Professor Ciaran O’Boyle
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