More People Die After Smoking Drugs Than Injecting Them
NEW YORK — Smoking has surpassed injecting as the most common way of taking drugs in U.S. overdose deaths, a new government study suggests.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called its study published Thursday the largest to look at how Americans took the drugs that killed them.
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CDC officials decided to study the topic after seeing reports from California suggesting that smoking fentanyl was becoming more common than injecting it. Potent, illicit versions of the painkiller are involved in more U.S. overdose deaths than any other drug.
Some early rese...
Source: TIME: Health - February 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: MIKE STOBBE/AP Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
CDC: More People Die After Smoking Drugs Than Injecting Them
(MedPage Today) -- Smoking has surpassed injecting as the most common way of taking drugs in U.S. overdose deaths, a new government study suggests.
The CDC called its study, published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the largest to look... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - February 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Study shows e-cigarettes are an effective stop-smoking aid
E-cigarettes are an effective way for smokers to stop smoking, a European study suggests. The addition of nicotine e-cigarettes to standard smoking-cessation counselling can nearly double cessation rates compared with counselling alone. The findings, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, also provide further insights into the safety profile of e-cigarette use for smoking... Read moreThe post Study shows e-cigarettes are an effective stop-smoking aid appeared first on Nursing in Practice. (Source: Nursing in Practice)
Source: Nursing in Practice - February 15, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Carolyn Scott Tags: Addiction and mental health Respiratory E-cigarettes nicotine Smoking cessation Source Type: news
Smoking Harms Immune System Years After Quitting
THURSDAY, Feb. 15, 2024 -- The harms of smoking are many, but new research delivers evidence of another troubling type of damage: Lighting up alters your immune system, leaving you more vulnerable to disease and infections even years after... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - February 15, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
E-Cigs Show Some Benefit as Smoking Cessation Aid in Clinical Trial
(MedPage Today) -- Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) helped people better stick to smoking cessation in the randomized controlled ESTxENDS trial.
Participants smoking at least five tobacco cigarettes a day at baseline showed validated continuous... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - February 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Experts say your 'heart age' can predict how long you'll live - here's how to discover yours
Heart age reflects a person's cardiovascular disease risk based on various risk factors such as blood pressure, cholesterol levels, smoking status, and the presence of conditions like diabetes . (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 14, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
5 habits to adopt on Valentine's Day for a healthy heart
One of the worst things you can do for your heart is to smoke. Smoking even one cigarette a day raises your risk of heart disease and other chronic illnesses. So, stop smoking today and keep your heart healthy. (Source: The Economic Times)
Source: The Economic Times - February 14, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Tobacco Use in Pregnancy Linked to Neurocognitive Deficits in Offspring
TUESDAY, Feb. 13, 2024 -- Maternal tobacco use during pregnancy (MTDP) is associated with child neurocognitive deficits at ages 9 to 12 years, according to a study published online Feb. 13 in JAMA Network Open.
Troy B. Puga, from the University of... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - February 13, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Tennessee Has Ranked Among the Worst States for Gun Crime for Over a Decade
Firearm sales have hit historic highs in the U.S. in recent years, and the ongoing proliferation of firearms may be fueling a rise in gun crime. When firearms are recovered at a crime scene or taken from a suspect, they are often reported to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives…#firearm #atf #tennessee #alldifference #suzeorman #daveramsey #worststates (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
DHS Awards Grants from JUUL Settlement Funds to Prevent and Treat Vaping by Youth and Young Adults
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) has awarded 13 grants worth $830,000 over the next two years to community organizations throughout Wisconsin to help address the youth and young adult vaping epidemic. Funding for the Vaping Prevention and Treatment Initiatives (VPTI) grants comes from current payments to Wisconsin as part of a $14.7 million multiyear JUUL Settlement announced by the Wisconsin Department of Justice in September 2022. The DHS Tobacco Prevention and Control Program...(see release)lucy.pepinFebruary 13, 2024 (Source: Wisconsin DHFS Press Releases)
Source: Wisconsin DHFS Press Releases - February 13, 2024 Category: Hospital Management Authors: lucy.pepin Source Type: news
South Africa: Media Statement - Cape Winelands and City of Cape Town Residents Say Yes and No to the Tobacco Bill
[Parliament of South Africa] Parliament, Monday, 12 February 2024 - Various groups of people from the Cape Winelands District and the City of Cape Town, including academics specialising in issues around health, healthcare consultants, workers and representatives from health and tobacco trading and farmers' associations shared their support or rejection of the Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill during public hearings conducted by the Portfolio Committee on Health in Paarl yesterday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 13, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Food and Agriculture Governance Health and Medicine Legal and Judicial Affairs South Africa Southern Africa Source Type: news
Smoking in cars with kids is banned in 11 states, and West Virginia could be next
West Virginia lawmakers are pushing to make the state the 12th in the nation. (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - February 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Smoking Linked to Melanoma-Associated Death in Early-Stage Melanoma
MONDAY, Feb. 12, 2024 -- For patients with clinical stage I and II melanoma, smoking is associated with an increased risk for melanoma-associated death, according to a study published online Feb. 6 in JAMA Network Open.
Katherine M. Jackson, M.D.,... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - February 12, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Prototyping the implementation of a suicide prevention protocol in primary care settings using PDSA cycles: a mixed method study - Minian N, Gayapersad A, Coroiu A, Dragonetti R, Zawertailo L, Zaheer J, O'Neill B, Lange S, Thomson N, Crawford A, Kennedy SH, Selby P.
INTRODUCTION: In Canada, approximately 4,500 individuals die by suicide annually. Approximately 45% of suicide decedents had contact with their primary care provider within the month prior to their death. Current versus never smokers have an 81% increased ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 12, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Investigation of the prevalence and factors influencing tobacco and alcohol use among adolescents in Nigeria: a systematic literature review - Ekpenyong MS, Jagun H, Stephen HA, Bakre AT, Odejimi O, Miller E, Nyashanu M, Bosun-Arije SF.
The increase in tobacco and alcohol prevalence among Nigerian teenagers necessitates the need to understand the factors influencing use. The aim of this systematic literature review was to synthesis evidence from studies on tobacco and alcohol use among Ni... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 12, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
