New program seeks to cut back on overdose deaths
Skagit County emergency medical providers can now leave opioid overdose patients with a supply of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone.
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2 men who died of suspected drug overdoses at Berkeley’s Civic Center Park identified
Firefighters administered Narcan, a drug used to treat opioid overdoses, and the man was transported to the hospital. White said he was still in critical …
Mother arrested after 19-month-old child rushed to hospital for drug overdose
Upon his arrival, the child was treated with a Narcan drip, which is used to treat opioid overdoses. Deputies said the child tested positive for …
Mother arrested after 19-month-old child rushed to hospital for drug overdose
… Apartments Boulevard around 11:30 p.m. Sunday. Upon his arrival, the child was treated with a Narcan drip, which is used to treat opioid overdoses.
Opioid overdose crisis has dramatically worsened during COVID-19 pandemic, report says
The number of fatal suspected opioid overdoses attended by paramedics also increased since the COVID-19 paramedic began in March 2020. Before …
Hamilton County Drug Courts Offer Second Chance Despite Pandemic
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) – Over 81,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in 2020, according to the CDC. This is the highest number ever recorded.
Toronto board of health to ask Ottawa to decriminalize drug possession in the city
Deaths involving all substances, including opioids, reached a record high of 521 in Toronto in … stakeholders to discuss opioid use and overdoses among construction workers, reporting back to the board of health in the fall of 2021.
Drumheller father of suspected overdose victim remembers daughter as funds raised for memorial
20, RCMP officers were called out to a home in Drumheller where Kimberly and two others were found dead — a result of suspected drug overdoses.
Overdose deaths still climbing in 2021
… DISTRICT ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE SAYS 207 PEOPLE HAVE DIED OF SUSPECTED DRUG OVERDOSES, INCLUDING 22 THIS MONTH …
Autopsies reveal Portland toddler died of starvation, dehydration; mother died of drug overdose …
… drug overdose from a combination of fentanyl and methamphetamine, and his son Nicholas Clouder died of starvation and hypertonic dehydration.