Fighting overdose epidemic takes more than harm reduction | READER COMMENTARY
Fentanyl is responsible for some 88% of all overdose deaths in Baltimore. Every Baltimore fentanyl overdose is not just an ...
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New Jersey drug overdose deaths fall, state leaders credit expanding harm reduction and treatment efforts
In addition to distributing fentanyl test strips, sterile syringes and naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal medication, Baston said the harm reduction infrastructure now includes harm reduction ...
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Nashville tackles rising drug overdoses with life-saving kits
One of the key strategies in his unit’s efforts is distributing free overdose reversal kits to the community. "I encourage everybody to have Naloxone available. You never know when you could ...
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US overdose deaths see biggest decline in decades for complicated reasons
Expanded access to addiction treatment and the overdose-reversal drug naloxone is also helping. Some eastern states are seeing bigger declines. But in parts of the West, fentanyl deaths are still ...
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Bill takes aim at discrimination by firms over OD-reversal drug access
an overdose-reversal drug. House Bill 111 was inspired by the experiences of Sharon White, a Delaware County woman who had obtained Naloxone so that she could respond to help her son who was ...
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Omaha area medics and law enforcement say fentanyl overdoses getting harder to reverse
For years, first responders have reversed fentanyl and other opioid overdoses with naloxone. Commonly called by the brand name Narcan, the reversal agent has been used by Omaha Fire Department ...