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• Jarvis: These overdose deaths are preventable — so, prevent them
  “A crisis,” the top public health official in Windsor and Essex County, Dr. Wajid Ahmed, called it last January. The number of opioid-related deaths here ...
• Growing concern for 'pink death' drug and pure fentanyl
  Police say the drug known as “pink,” “pink heroin” or “pink death” is essentially poison. It's in powder or pill form. Pink came on the scene late summer, ...
• As deaths rise, NY lawmakers push for addiction medicine in all state prisons, jails
  NEW YORK — A group of New York lawmakers are seeking support for a bill that would require all jails and prisons in the state to offer medication that ...
• Average of 4.3 people/day died of illicit drug overdose in BC in September
  In September, 128 people died from a suspected overdose in B.C. – an average of 4.3 deaths per day. The numbers released Wednesday represent ...
• Brainstorm Health: Virta Health Diabetes Program, J&J Talc Suit, Precision Medicine
  America's overdoses. A new study finds that the U.S. has twice the premature overdose death rate of a dozen other comparably wealthy nations.
• 'Dreamland' author: Americans' isolation fuels opioid epidemic; unity is cure
  "The antidote to heroin is not naloxone," journalist Sam Quinones told 450 people in a hotel ballroom in downtown Knoxville on Wednesday morning.
• 71 people died in Utah jails in the past five years, most within a week of when they got locked up
  The Salt Lake Tribune counted at least two-dozen deaths in Utah jails in 2016, based on gathering of reports from each individual county.
• Man accepts responsibility for fatal opioid overdose in southern York County
  Richard Schock, 41, of Peach Bottom Township, entered an Alford plea to drug delivery resulting in death, according to court records. That means he ...
• Report: Opioid Epidemic Cost Massachusetts $15.2 Billion In 2017
  It's the first to offer a thorough assessment of the economic damage caused by rising opioid use and deaths in Massachusetts. The authors say it's a ...
• Coroner: Third suspected heroin death in three days in Coal City
  “This is the third death in Coal City this past 10 days as a result of suspected heroin,” Callahan said in a press release Wednesday afternoon.

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