Kwanlin Dün chief says overcrowding contributing to opioid deaths
Five of the nine opioid related deaths were First Nations. Jones said … Since 2016, around 40 people have died in the territory due to drug overdose.
Overdoses Have Reduced Life Expectancy for British Columbians With HIV
About one in four injected drugs, and nearly a quarter had a CD4 count below 200. A total of 266 members (3%) of the cohort died of drug overdoses …
Fentanyl contributes to a rising death toll in Southern Nevada
About 7 out of 10 of these deaths were opioid-related. CDC statistics reveal that 47% of all overdose deaths resulted from fentanyl and other synthetic …
Layperson reversal of opioid overdose supported by smartphone alert: A prospective observational …
Philadelphia has the highest per capita overdose mortality rate among large U.S. cities, with 1150 deaths in 2019 and a death rate of over 60 per …
Province-sanctioned safe supply not enough to get some BC addicts off fentanyl-laced street drugs
In June, 175 people died of overdoses in B.C., which was the highest number in a single month since the province started tracking overdoses. Before …
Local overdoses on record-setting pace
Tainted heroin in Frederick County and Winchester appears to be … The virus has made it harder for drug users to receive in-patient treatment and …
With overdose deaths up during the pandemic, Philadelphia is fighting for a safe, legal injection site
Pichardo worked for 15 minutes to revive him using the overdose-reversal drug Narcan. After she saved his life, she wrote a name inside her pocket-size …
Woman charged after five people overdose at party and one person died
She was found more than an hour later in a yard on the 8900 block of 22nd Avenue. She told police she had left prior to anyone using drugs and denied …
With overdose deaths up during the pandemic, Philadelphia fights for a legal safe injection site
Last year, there were 1,150 drug-overdose-related deaths in Philadelphia, 80 percent of those were from opioids, particularly the synthetic opioid, …
Twin epidemics taking a toll in CT as opioid overdoses rise amid coronavirus
That compares to 1,200 known deaths from drug overdoses in all of 2019, which was an 18 percent increase from the year before. As of the middle of …