New Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report says state’s amphetamine death rate could soon eclipse its prescription opioid death rate if current trends continue.
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State will be home to 64,000 people with the disease in 2025, an increase of more than 42 percent over the current total of 45,000, according to a new report from the Alzheimer’s Association.
Influenza deaths in Nevada’s Clark County have risen to 26 for the year so far.
Overall opioid-related overdose deaths have decreased slightly in Nevada since 2010, but data presented Thursday show that heroin and synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, are responsible for a sharply higher share of the deaths.
The complaint, filed in Washoe County District Court on Wednesday, alleges that the manufacturers and distributors of the anti-psychotic medication Abilify failed to warn patients and doctors of the side effects.