Sabrina Tavernise appears in the following:
New Painkiller Guidelines to Reduce Addiction Risk
Monday, March 21, 2016
States That Rejected Medicaid Expansion Leave Millions Without Healthcare
Thursday, October 03, 2013
Backstory: Prescription Painkiller Addiction
Thursday, May 26, 2011
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there has been a tenfold increase in prescriptions for opioids like OxyContin in the U.S. since 1990, and during that time the number of accidental deaths from drug overdose have nearly quintupled. In a growing number of states, unintentional overdoses replaced motor-vehicle incidents as the leading cause of accidental death. New York Times reporter Sabrina Tavernise discusses the factors behind prescription painkiller abuse, how these controlled substances are readily accessible to so many, new legislation aimed at curbing the problem, and why prescription pill abuse is so prevalent in Appalachia.
Running the Blockade
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Diplomatic tensions continue to rise over Israel's raid on the flotilla of ships seeking to bypass the blockade of Gaza. New York Times Istanbul bureau chief Sabrina Tavernise and Christopher Dickey, Middle East regional editor for Newsweek and author of Securing the City: Inside America's Best Counterterror Force - The NYPD, report on the aftermath.