FDA Continues Important Work on Substance Use and Overdose Prevention Efforts
… and Drugs Overdose prevention, reduction in opioid and other substance … coupled with the increasing overdose death rate, compels us to seek …
Fentanyl Test Strips Highlight Rift in Nation’s Struggle to Combat Drug Deaths – The New York Times
The spread of fentanyl, a cheap synthetic opioid 50 times as lethal as heroin, into most kinds of illicit drugs has pushed fatal overdoses to record …
Boston Police Turn Blind Eye to Drug Use Outside Government ‘Harm Reduction’ Facility
The city’s drug users congregate outside Access, Harm Reduction, Overdose Prevention, and Education (AHOPE), the Boston Public Health Commission’s …
Rainbow fentanyl seized in Pasadena drug bust
Fentanyl is the one of the deadliest drugs. According to the CDC, 107,622 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2021, with 66 percent of those deaths …
Woman charged in the fentanyl overdose death of her 12-year-old daughter in Weld County
She’s been charged with child abuse resulting in death, a Class 2 felony, and distribution of a controlled substance, a Class 3 drug felony.
DEA efforts to slow down one of the deadliest drug overdose trends | 95.3 MNC
While the opioid crisis has plagued Indiana for years, year after year record numbers of deaths are happening, including last year’s record of 2,755 …
Alabama teen did not overdose on fentanyl in incident that sparked school lockdown, police say
He said about one month ago, the police department made a drug arrest that resulted in seizure of 7.2 grams of illicit fentanyl. “That’s federal …
Fearing fentanyl exposure, Hawaii police officer took Narcan after responding to overdose death
Hawaii County police don’t know what drug killed the overdose victim. “What the officer did was a good choice at the time with all the unknowns,” said …
OHA Report reveals 2021 saw increases in overdose deaths and ways to help those at risk
Polysubstance overdoses—those involving multiple drugs— rose in 2021 and now account for more than half of all fatal overdoses in Oregon. A new report …
Surviving drug addiction with one last chance – NY1
Heroin, ecstasy, methamphetamine, marijuana, cocaine, crack, alcohol, … In the third quarter of 2021, there were 709 drug overdose deaths.