Sheriff’s deputies arrested a woman running from the law for a whole year, but the real story is what she did while she was on the run. Heather Grey, 32, stole from C.J. Cannon's restaurant in Vero Beach where she was formerly employed, and was arrested for that crime. She broke her probation and fled, escaping ... Read More
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Symptoms of Opioid Withdrawal
In Florida alone there were some 2,798 deaths as a result from overdoses of opioids. You don't have to become part of that number. Help is available. Withdrawal is not easy, but there are trained medical rehabilitation specialists who want to help you. Withdrawal Symptoms When a person has become dependent on a drug, ... Read More
Florida Opioid Law Goes Into Effect July 1st
House Bill 21, the Florida Opioid prescription law, will be going into effect July 1, and marks a great change in how health care providers handle medication prescriptions. The bill, intended to make it much harder to be prescribed opioids and other scheduled drugs, was passed back in March, and will, among other ... Read More
FDA Looks To Future Addiction Risks in the Post-Opioid Crisis World
The Food and Drug Administration has not had the easiest job in the last two or so years, but it would appear that the agency is still willing to take on new challenges. Officials in the FDA published a letter in The New England Journal of Medicine, warning of the dangers of non-opioid painkillers once opioid abuse is ... Read More
Washington Deputy Saves Man from Opioid Overdose using Narcan
Washington Deputy Saves Man from Opioid Overdose using Narcan Deputy Alex Velikodnyy, of the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office, saved a man’s life this weekend using Narcan just one day after being trained on how to use it. A grant from the Medical Reserve Corps of Eastern Washington provided for several hundred ... Read More
Woman Loses Two Sons to Opioids In One Night
Researchers Hoping to Better Understand Fentanyl's Impact For Becky Savage, June 14th, 2015 remains a blur. Her two oldest sons - Nick and Jack were celebrating at high school graduation parties, and both overdosed and died. As reported by CNN, "Everything just kind of seemed like a blur that day," Becky Savage ... Read More
No Money For Narcan – City Budgets Crunched By Opioid Crisis
Cities Face Prospect of "Narcan Rationing"As the opioid crisis continues, and more addicts need multiple doses of Narcan to be revived after taking fentanyl-laced heroin, some cities are running out of money for Narcan.As reported by the Daily Journal, on a Baltimore street corner, public health workers hand out a ... Read More
Even Toddlers Endangered By Opioids
More Than 30,000 Children Poisoned By Household Drugs With millions of parents struggling with addiction, there have been growing numbers of young children suffering from accidental overdose. As reported by Medical Xpress, tens of thousands of toddlers and preschoolers are accidentally poisoned when they get into ... Read More