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Matthew's Hope Foundation's Media Campaign Kick-Off
Cincinnati, Ohio - Market 1
Matthew's Hope Foundation will select 10 target markets within the United States in which we will send a MHF representative for community outreach and support, as well as media resources to battle the opioid epidemic plaguing our nation.
Market selection is based on opioid death rates, our team's research, as well as research provided by the Centers of Disease Control (CDC).
Market selection is based on opioid death rates, our team's research, as well as research provided by the Centers of Disease Control (CDC).
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Fentanyl Named Deadliest Drug in America
December 20, 2018 CNN Fentanyl is now the most commonly used drug involved in drug overdoses, according to a new government report. The latest numbers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics say that the rate of drug overdoses involving the synthetic opioid skyrocketed by about 113% each year from 2013 through 2016. |
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Opioid Crisis: The Lawsuits that could Bankrupt Manufacturers & Distributors
December 17, 2018 60 Minutes You may remember Mike Moore from the settlements he engineered from big tobacco and the B.P. oil spill. Now, he’s taking on the manufacturers and distributors of opioid painkillers. Moore states he has powerful new evidence he says proves that states like Ohio, among the hardest-hit by the opioid epidemic, should collect billions from all the companies he's suing. |
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VA to add Nalaxone to Defbrillator Cabinets for Faster Overdose Response
December 02, 2018 NPR, Dept. VA Affairs The Department of Veteran Affairs announced it will add Nalaxone to emergency kits found in VA cafeterias, waiting areas, gyms etc, along with external cardiac defibrillators for faster Overdose response. |
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How Border Security Can Help End the Opioid Crisis
November 07, 2018 Townhall: Ken Blackwell Last year, nearly 50,000 Americans died from overdoses involving opioids. That was an increase of nearly 7,000 from 2016—which was itself an increase of about 9,000 from 2015. The numbers have been climbing for nearly two decades now, thanks in large part to the introduction of a synthetic drug called fentanyl. Author Ken Blackwell elaborates on how border security plays a crucial role. |
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Rapper Mac Miller died from accidental overdose on fentanyl, cocaine, alcohol
November 05, 2018 USA Today Nearly two months after rapper Mac Miller died, the autopsy revealed that he succumbed to an accidental overdose of fentanyl, alcohol and cocaine. The rapper, 26, died of "multiple drug toxicity." That means while the amount of each individual drug in his system was not enough to kill him, the combination of the three drugs was. Fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin and typically kills by slowing breathing to the point of death. It is used to treat pain in cancer patients but the street version is often mixed with heroin and cocaine, and ingested by the user unknowingly. |
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President Trump Signs Opioid Legislation
October 24, 2018 Trump Pledges To End 'Scourge' Of Drug Addiction With the nation reeling from an epidemic of drug overdose deaths, President Trump signed legislation Wednesday that is aimed at helping people overcome addiction and preventing addictions before they start. The opioid legislation is a rarity...with overwhelming bipartisan support in both chambers of Congress. |
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Surgeon General Releases Updated Opioid Report
October 08, 2018 AAFP: American Academy of Family Physicians The latest figures on the opioid epidemic released in Surgeon General report. The spotlight report, jointly developed by the surgeon general's office and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), recaps the latest data on the prevalence of substance use, opioid misuse, opioid use disorders (OUDs) and opioid overdoses. |
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Heather Locklear's Message About Addiction & Recovery
October 01, 2018 E News Former Melrose Place actress Heather Locklear posted a message about addiction and recovery. The post comes just months after the star was arrested for allegedly attacking a police officer. "Addiction is a ferocious and will try to take you down," she wrote. "Recovery is the best revenge." |
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Children of "Opioid Epidemic" Face Neglect, Trauma
September 27, 2018 Infants cry. Toddlers go limp. Others hug everyone. - Cincinnati Enquirer The children of the opioid epidemic, removed from parents who are addicted or found dead from overdose, are flooding a system mandated to protect them but overwhelmed with their numbers. Greiner's clinic has seen infants and toddlers covered in insect bites, and young children with "hair so matted and damaged it has to be shaved off." She's seen "children recently placed in foster care who will eat and eat until they throw up – afraid to turn away food because they don’t know when their next meal comes." The children are removed for their health and their safety. But the very act of removing them is additionally traumatizing, says Greiner. “No matter what, you love your parents,” she explains. Some of the children's parents have died from overdose. Some of their children have notified authorities by calling 911. |
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Demi Lovato's Mom Breaks Silence After Opioid Overdose
September 19, 2018 "The opioid crisis in America is at an epidemic level." Credit: EOnline "You don't see it coming, and that's the scary thing," - Demi Lovato's mother. "The opioid crisis in America is at an epidemic level, and people don't understand that until they start researching it...After this happened, I started researching and looking into how opioids are killing our kids. It's happening, I think, it's every 15 minutes someone dies of an overdose. It's not just the kids, either—it's grown-ups. It's mothers. It's fathers." |
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US Drug Overdose Deaths Hit Record 72,000 in 2017
August 16, 2018 The Guardian Drug overdoses killed more than 72,000 people in the United States last year – a new record driven by the deadly opioid epidemic, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control. The CDC estimates that 72,287 people died from overdoses in 2017, an increase of about 10% from the year before...and the majority were caused by opiates. CDC figures show drug epidemic – fueled by rise in fentanyl – has become more deadly than gun violence and car accidents. |
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Demi Lovato Honest About her Opioid Addiction
July 24, 2018 Daily Beast: Singer Revived with Narcan after Overdose The faces of the Opioid Epidemic look very different than in years past. Demi Lovato rushed to hospital for drug overdose after being revived with Narcan, which reverses effects of opioid overdoses. 80% of heroin addictions start with an opioid prescription. |
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President Trump Taking Action to Stop Opioid Abuse
June 07, 2018 CNN - White House launches multimillion dollar ad campaign to combad opioid addiction The Trump administration on Thursday announced a new, multimillion dollar public awareness advertisement campaign aimed at curbing opioid addiction among young people. The first four ads of the campaign are all based on true stories illustrating the extreme lengths young adults have gone to get a hold of Oxycodone and Vicodin -- from smashing their hand or arm, to wrecking their car or breaking their back. - Every 15 minutes, someone in America dies from an opioid overdose. Opioid painkillers are killing us, and it's time to talk about it. Let's face the opioid epidemic together. - |
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From America's Warriors to Victims of Opioid Epidemic
March 18, 2018 "All they want is pain relief." - Huffington Post "They were giving me pain pills, I was getting Percocet, Vicodin. ... I used to get like 460 at a time!" - Joel - study participant Opioid prescription in the Veterans Administration health system skyrocketed 270 percent from 2001 to 2012. VA patients were twice as likely as other Americans to die of accidental opioid overdoses, according to a 2011 study, and another study found that 13 percent of all veterans taking opioids had an opioid-use disorder ― about 68,000 people. |
Breaking from Newsmax NewsHub
KHOU-TV reports that a new drug, carfentanil, has hit the streets of Houston — an opioid 10,000 times stronger than morphine that's sometimes used as an elephant tranquilizer. Carfentanil was recently detected in an overdose patient in Houston. "Last week, we confirmed that a case that came into us on June 7 was, in fact, carfentanil," said Dr. Peter Stout with the Houston Forensic Science Center. Carfentanil is related to fentanyl, the opioid blamed for pop star Prince's fatal overdose. Carfentanil is 100 times more powerful than that. Stout says just an 80 milligram amount could kill 4,000 people. "This stuff is real and this stuff will kill you," said Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. |
Nashville Mayor Mourns Sons Death
August 08, 2017 Mayor Megan Barry Urges Families to Talk About Addiction The epidemic of drug overdose deaths has hit home for the mayor of Nashville, Tenn. Her 22-year-old son, Max Barry, died last month of an overdose near Denver. For the first time since tragedy struck her family, Mayor Megan Barry spoke publicly Monday to call on families to have frank and difficult conversations about addiction. "I don't want his death to define his life, but we have to have a frank conversation about how he died. The reality is that Max overdosed on drugs," Barry said. "My hope is that it may inspire and encourage other parents out there ... and that if that saves one life, what a blessing." |
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The Crisis Next Door
President Donald J. Trump is Confronting an Opioid Crisis More Severe Than Original Expectations
President Donald J. Trump is Confronting an Opioid Crisis More Severe Than Original Expectations
"Together, we will face this challenge as a national family with conviction, with unity, and with a commitment to love and support our neighbors in times of dire need. Working together, we will defeat this opioid epidemic."
President Donald J. Trump
AMERICAN FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES DEVASTATED: New data compiled by President Donald J. Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) shows the costs of opioid abuse are much higher than previously thought.
- Opioid-involved overdose deaths doubled in the past ten years and quadrupled in the past sixteen years.
- The number of opioid-involved overdose deaths has risen by nearly one-third since 2013.
- This rise in overdose deaths involves fentanyl, a highly potent synthetic opioid, and fentanyl analogs, most of which is believed to be illicitly imported.
- Evidence suggests that drug overdoses related to opioids are underreported by as much as 24 percent, which would raise the estimated 2015 opioid overdose death toll to over 40,000.
- Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of injury death in the United States, outnumbering traffic crashes or gun-related deaths.
- According to preliminary analysis, more than 64,000 lives were lost to drug overdoses in 2016, devastating American families and communities.
- This represents a rate of 175 deaths a day in 2016.
- Since 2000, over 300,000 Americans have died from overdoses involving opioids.