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Recreational drug users are three times more likely to have repeated heart health emergencies than people who don’t use, a new study has found.
About 11% of patients admitted to intensive cardiac care units have been using recreational drugs, said researcher Dr. Raphael Mirail...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- August 28, 2024
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The "fourth wave" of the U.S. overdose crisis involves the use of illicit fentanyl mixed with stimulants such as cocaine or methamphetamine, and it's killing people in droves.
The proportion of U.S. overdose deaths involving both fentanyl and stimulants jumped by more than 50-fold since 2010, from 0.6% in 2010 to more than 32% in 2021, a new study shows.
"Fatal overdose involvi...
- Denise Mann HealthDay Reporter
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- September 14, 2023
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Researchers already knew that injecting drugs can lead to the dangerous and deadly heart infection called endocarditis.
Now they know that also becoming infected with COVID-19 appears to increase risk for this already vulnerable group.
"A lot of people talk about long COVID, but then really not many people are focused on this very vulnerable population," said
Using marijuana increases the risk of developing the heart rhythm disorder atrial fibrillation (a-fib), a new study suggests.
It's been known that drugs such as methamphetamine, cocaine and opiates can directly affect the heart and cause abnormal rhythms like a-fib, but weed can increase the risk by 35%, re...
- Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter
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- October 20, 2022
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Combined use of opioids and stimulant drugs like cocaine and methamphetamine can be deadly, and in the United States Black communities have been hit especially hard by this lethal combo, new research indicates.
Over a 12-year period, Black Americans have had much larger increases in overdose deaths from opioids
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- February 10, 2022
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