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In Pickens, South Carolina a 43-year-old woman has been charged with giving a 14-month-old child lethal doses of Oxycodone. On Oct. 17 the coroner’s initiated an investigation surrounding the infant's death. The infant was found dead in the woman's house. The woman name is Angela Denise Brewer she was the grandmother and caretaker of the baby. Brewer is going to trial for Murder and her jury is being selected. Her trial will begin December 18. Oxycodone was found in a nearby sippy cup that's used to feed the baby. This story is very horrible. The baby was pronounced dead after arriving at the local emergency department. The coroners found 2700 ng/ml of oxycodone in his system. A very high dose for an infant to be ingesting. Dangers and Process of Oxycodone  You should never give a child any type of prescription drugs, especially if it not prescribed to them. I hate a 1-year-old baby had to go through this. What scares me is the fact that someone actually doe...

Since 1999, 200,000 people have died from overdoses connected to OxyContin , and similar prescription drugs. 64,000 people have died in drug overdose last year, that's more people that AIDS, car accidents, and gun violence. The crisis puts most pain clinics and Hospitals in a tough situation. On one hand you have people that are in chronic pain and can't go without medication. On the other hand you have people that become addicted to opioids and eventually overdose or ruin their lives. Two Sides to the Opioid Patients   If you're reading this I want you to understand that I know prescription medication is used to treat chronic pain, and I know that it works really well. Thomas Kline MD, Phd argues that when you refuse to treat intractable pain it becomes morally corrupt. Refusing to treat intractable pain is morally corrupt. #opioidcrisis — Thomas Kline MD, PhD (@ThomasKlineMD) November 18, 2017 The Drug Epidemic in 2018 This drug epidemic is becoming...

Manhattan Picture from Robert Ziemi  Opioid addiction is a national issue in many Health Departments around America. Every healthcare provider is strategically trying to reduce the amount of people with addictions because the death tolls aren’t getting any better. It's an alarming rate of opioid deaths in New York City right now. I've created plenty of articles attempting breaking down opioids and it's addictive qualities. Even the president of the United States understands how much of an epidemic these synthetic drugs conjure. In New York for the first half of 2017, 711 people have died from overdoses. officials believe 82% of those deaths related to opioids . In 2016, 1374 people have died from overdoses. That basically means the rates are slowly increasing and averaging out at about 1400 deaths a year between five boroughs that make up New York. Be careful of drugs called fentanyl which happens to be 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine is f...