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In Kensington Section of Philly, Don't Leave Home Without Your NarcanPhiladelphia reporter Mike Newall has been writing about the region's heroin epidemic for the past year, and was very disciplined about bring Narcan with him - just in case something happened. Until one day, he forgot to bring it... "Worry pulled ... Read More
Paramedics Able to Save Mother and Daughter At Dollar GeneralA trip to the Dollar General store in Ashland City, TN took a turn for the worse for Stacy Felix and her daughter, Jessica Chauvin. Fortunately, both received Narcan in time and were revived. Officer Joseph Hunter was one of the first to arrive. “It ... Read More
North of Saint Louis, couple overdoses and crashes their car...In Wood River IL, just north of Saint Louis, paramedics needed to deliver Narcan to two drivers who smashed their car into the guardrail. Fortunately, they were revived, and there were no other fatalities on busy Illinois Route 3. Commenting on the ... Read More
The most fatally abused drug today may be sitting in your medicine cabinet.The National Safety Council is launching a provocative and very informative campaign highlighting the dangers of prescription opioids. These widely prescribed pain killers can be found in medicine cabinets across the country and have directly ... Read More
Public Health Officials Sound the Alarm As Overdoses SpikeThe momentum started building on Thursday and Friday as emergency responders received 20 dispatches for possible overdoses across Hamilton County. Then on Saturday and Sunday local hospitals saw 18 admissions for overdoses. This spike in activity prompted ... Read More
Small Town In GA Not Immune to Opioid Crisis Snellville GA, with a population just under 20,000 people, is not a place where you'd expect to be reading about heroin addiction. Out in the Atlanta suburbs, this is generally a quiet community. But, the power and range of this current opioid epidemic continues to cut ... Read More
California Officials Carefully Monitoring Opioid Usage Compared to the rest of the nation, California's rate of death from opioid overdose has remained low, with only 11 people in 100,000 dying compared to West Virginia, where a staggering 41 out of every 100,000 residents died from overdose in 2015. However, parts ... Read More
Daughter's Battle With Addiction Sparks Mom Into Action PJ Newberg knew something had changed when her daughter got a new boyfriend, but wasn't really sure what the problem was. Finally, she went into her room and discovered needles and heroin. Even as her boyfriend died from an overdose, her daughter struggled to ... Read More
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