Overdose
Suicide, alcohol, drug deaths reach all-time high
CLOSE Booze isn't just featured in commercials, it's pretty much gotten to the point where it's featured in your favorite TV show or movie. Here's how alcohol advertising affects minors. USA TODAYThe number of deaths from alcohol, drugs and...
05 March, 2019
Overdose alert for cocaine possibly contaminated with fentanyl in Surrey
SURREY (NEWS 1130) – Drug users are being urged to not use alone and keep naloxone nearby after first responders dealt with at least a dozen overdoses in Surrey on Sunday. Dr. Shovita Padhi with...
05 March, 2019
Truth Pharm hopes to fight overdose deaths with fentanyl test strips
(WBNG) — One local organization is hoping to fight overdose deaths in a new way. “For the parents out there who’ve lost a loved one, that’s a permanent condition, if somebody dies, they’re gone forever,” said Truth Pharm’s Executive Director Alexis Pleus. She says in the last...
05 March, 2019
Fentanyl-related deaths spiked in 2017
This Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 photo shows an arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen in New York. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison) Copyright by WOODTV - All rights reserved This Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 photo shows an arrangement of pills of the...
04 March, 2019
OxyContin maker: Lawsuit scapegoats company
The lawsuit against Purdue Pharma filed by the attorney general in Massachusetts amounts to "oversimplified scapegoating" unsupported by the law, the company said in a new court filing. In a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, the Sackler family - owners of Purdue Pharma, the...
04 March, 2019
Fentanyl Proves To Be A Danger To Firefighters | Editor’s Dispatch | Fire news
Five Wilmington, Del., firefighters and...
04 March, 2019
‘Help not handcuffs’: how US cities on the frontline are fighting to stem the opioid tide | Cities
Growing up in the farmlands around Dayton, south-west Ohio, a teenage Randy Carmack knew many “little old ladies” whose cupboards contained powerful painkillers. “One had a leg amputation and she didn’t like her fentanyl patches, so I bought her prescription from her granddaughter,” he said. Carmack...
04 March, 2019
D.C. opioid crisis: Overdose initiatives still in planning stages, officials say
More than two months after D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) released a far-reaching plan to cut opioid overdose deaths in half by late 2020, key programs described in the plan have not been launched, according to city officials and service providers. The anti-opioid...
04 March, 2019
