Savings Lives Task Force: Spotlight on John WindleyBy Brenda Thacker on June 24, 2019By Brenda ThackerThis month the Saving Lives Task Force features an interview between Brenda Thacker and businessman and Kill Devil Hills Commissioner John WindleyHow did you get started with the Saving Lives...
Doctor Peter Butt, an addictions specialist and associate professor in the department of Family Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan, at his office in Saskatoon, SK on Friday, July 7, 2017. Liam Richards / Saskatoon StarPhoenix Once seemingly limited to the streets of Vancouver, where scenes of...
Dr. Peter Butt demonstrates how to use a Naloxone kit. Michelle Berg / Saskatoon StarPhoenix Worries about accidental poisoning from victims of fentanyl overdoses are largely based in myth, say those who work in the area.Suggestions that people administering First Aid can be poisoned simply by touching...
Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Monday, June 24, and there’s a new leading cause of opioid overdose deaths in San Francisco, the homelessness crisis is playing out nightly at one BART station, and the future of PG&E’s land holdings is uncertain. Here’s what you need...
These two efforts stopped most OxyContin prescribing and decimated legitimate disabled intractable pain sufferers in West Virginia, the state with the highest incidence of industrial and worker compensation injury cases. For the sake of argument, let’s estimate pain clinic patients were 50% legitimate pain sufferers...
As noted in a recent Chicago Tribune editorial, the term “deaths of despair”...
By Mike Donoghue, Reformer correspondent BURLINGTON — The crackdown on illegal drug trafficking in Southern Vermont continues with felony charges filed in federal court against two more persons, including the wife of a Brattleboro man being held in connection with a fatal drug overdose in Winhall...
Garry and Mary Ellen Jordan were planning an unannounced visit to LSU.They would...