Etiket: Opioid
Researchers predict opioid risks using artificial intelligence
(Edmonton) Alberta researchers seek to predict the risks of opioid prescribing using artificial intelligence. Posted at 4:11 p.m. Ritika Dubey The Canadian Press Physicians already have an established protocol for…
Role in the opioid crisis | McKinsey can still do business with Ottawa
(Ottawa) The federal government continues to do business with McKinsey, despite its role in the opioid crisis. Pressed with questions by the Conservatives in a parliamentary committee on Wednesday evening,…
British Columbia to attempt decriminalization to curb opioid crisis
As the opioid crisis wreaks havoc across Canada, much of the focus on toxic and illicit substances has shifted in recent years to areas of British Columbia, including rural, where…
British Columbia to attempt decriminalization to curb opioid crisis
(Vancouver) As the opioid crisis wreaks havoc across Canada, much of the focus on toxic and illicit substances has shifted in recent years to areas of British Columbia, including in…
Ludivine Reding’s character unconscious in STAT: what is naloxone, the antidote to opioid overdoses?
Monday evening, in the series STAT, Sophia St-Jean, the character played by Ludivine Reding, is administered naloxone after being found unconscious by first responders. But what exactly is naloxone? We…
Opioid crisis | Walmart to pay US$3.1 billion to settle US lawsuits
(New York) The American supermarket group Walmart will pay 3.1 billion dollars in the United States to put an end to lawsuits accusing it of having played a role in…
Opioid crisis: Walmart pays $3.1 billion to close US lawsuits
The American supermarket group Walmart is to pay 3.1 billion dollars in the United States to end a lawsuit accusing it of having played a role in the opiate crisis…
Walmart pays $3.1 billion to settle lawsuits related to US opioid crisis
The American supermarket chain Walmart announced on Tuesday that it would pay 3.1 billion dollars in the United States to settle lawsuits brought by states and communities for its role…
Opioid crisis | The government’s response “insufficient”, even “absent”
With 252 overdose deaths from January to June in Quebec, 2022 is on track to become the second deadliest year – after 2020 – since the start of the opioid…
Opioid crisis | Walmart, Walgreens and CVS ordered to pay $650.6 million
(New York) The pharmacies of Walmart, Walgreens and CVS were ordered by a judge in Ohio, in the northern United States, to pay $650.6 million to two counties in that…
Opioid crisis | Teva Lab Announces Over $4 Billion Deal
(Washington) Israeli generic drug maker Teva announced on Tuesday that it has reached an agreement in principle to pay more than four billion dollars to the United States to settle…
Opioid crisis | No safe supply system to reduce overdoses
(Ottawa) More than a year after the federal government’s expert panel recommended creating a safe supply of substances to reduce people’s addiction to toxic drugs, the government hasn’t created a…
Opioid Analgesics | Purdue Class Action Settlement
(Vancouver) The British Columbia government announced on Wednesday that a $150 million settlement has been reached with Purdue Pharma Canada, covering all provinces, to recover health care costs related to…
Opioid overdose: High school students will learn how to intervene
Some 25,000 high school students in Quebec will have access to new training allowing them to administer naloxone in the event of an opioid overdose. This new training offered by…
High school students will be trained to respond to an opioid overdose
Students in public high schools across Canada will be trained to provide the first aid necessary in the event of an opioid overdose, The Canadian Press has learned first. The…
Opioid crisis | A record number of 107,000 fatal overdoses in 2021
(New York) More than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year, setting a new record and further evidence of an opioid crisis in the country, the Centers said Wednesday.…
4 opioid manufacturers pay to get rid of class action in Quebec
Opioid crisis: four pharmaceutical companies have chosen to pay to get rid of a class action that want to bring Quebecers who have developed an addiction to this type of…
Opioid crisis | Native Americans in the United States will receive $665 million
(New York) Hundreds of Native American tribes, which have paid a heavy price for the opiate crisis in the United States, are set to receive $665 million from four major…
Opioid crisis | “I prefer it to be me, your dealer”
Prescribing drugs to save lives by replacing street drugs: a solution to the opioid crisis? Quebec doctors try the blow, while in British Columbia, a public policy is born. Posted…
[BALADO] Understanding Opioid Overdose
The death crisis linked to overdoses of this psychoactive substance has been going on for several years. • Read also: [BALADO] The return of electroshock? And it is unfortunately gaining…