RI health officials report 40 overdoses within the past week alone
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) ─ The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) is sounding the alarm over a significant spike in nonfatal overdoses …
EDITORIAL: Digging deeper into opioid overdose crisis
Almost 70,000 of those deaths were from opioids. In Virginia, however, it’s worse than that. The state is one of 10 in which the overdose fatalities …
Louisiana overdose deaths skyrocket during 2020
“A big part of this overdose deaths, especially what we’re seeing in Louisiana, is due to opioids,” Goeders said. “This is also just an estimate. I have a …
Overdose deaths still rising in Saskatchewan, coroner’s data shows
As of June 30, the SCS is reporting 73 confirmed and 105 suspected drug toxicity deaths. Through June 25 in 2020, which itself was a record year for …
Recovered addict hopes to be beacon of hope amid spike in overdose deaths
The CDC reported the highest single-year increase of drug overdose year-to-year in more than 50 years. Virginia saw a larger percentage increase in …
Opioid trial witness: Overdose deaths rose sharply in 2009 in Nassau
The charts showed how that drug and others began to overtake heroin as a leading cause of death by overdose in Nassau. One chart showed that the …
Some KY counties seeing an increase in drug overdoses, deaths
(WTVQ) – Kentucky is seeing a surge, and it’s not just the coronavirus – it’s drug overdoses and deaths, which have been rising steadily since 2019, …
La Crosse County overdose deaths trending upward, fentanyl a major factor
“We have seen an increase in the percentage of fentanyl in our overdoses over the course of the last five years,” Eberlein added. “It goes up every year …
Castro overdose deaths alarm leaders
In the days before Pride weekend, gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman posted a stark warning on his Facebook page. “Learning of three …
After record year for drug overdoses, Malcolm X College to train community health workers to fight …
Luis Ramirez (bottom right) with his brother Carlos Ramirez (top left) who died from a drug overdose several years ago and their two other siblings Rene …