Opioid Crisis

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

Interactive Data Paints a Grim Canvas Across Connecticut It is easy to become immune to the realities of the opioid crisis, especially if you think "it's not happening here". However, even in the most affluent areas of Connecticut, the rate of drug-related overdoses continues to rise. Just a few minutes using this ... Read More