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Orange County Homeless Deaths Nearly Quadruple Over Last Decade: Report
Deaths in the homeless population have sky-rocketed over the last decade in Orange County, California, primarily due to drug-related overdoses from fentanyl, according to a Feb. 27 report from county ...
March 2, 2023
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Los Angeles County Requires Naloxone at Juvenile Rehabilitation Facilities
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January 11, 2023
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A Day in the Life: Southern California’s Fentanyl Crisis
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January 9, 2023
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Fentanyl Overdose Antidote Required at California Colleges Under New Law
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January 9, 2023
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Orange County Funds Opioid Blockers for School Districts
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December 21, 2022
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After several cases of student overdoses due to the synthetic opioid fentanyl, California lawmakers introduced a bill requiring ...
December 12, 2022
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To America’s Permissive Addiction ‘Fix,’ Critics Just Say No
After nine years as a homeless drug addict in Los Angeles, Jared Klickstein finally checked himself into a ...
November 24, 2022
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SD County Approves Required Fentanyl Education, Narcan Distribution
SAN DIEGO—The San Diego County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a proposal to require fentanyl awareness education in ...
October 11, 2022
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California Lawmaker Seeks to Make Drug Overdose Antidote More Accessible
State Assemblymember James Ramos (D-Highland) has introduced a proposal that would create a pilot program to teach participants—such ...
May 9, 2022
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Fentanyl Crisis in America a ‘God-Size’ Hole in Need of an Aggressive Solution
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March 15, 2022
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Toxic illegal drugs in British Columbia are causing more deaths annually than all other unnatural causes of death ...
February 10, 2022
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CVS Pharmacies in Virginia Will Offer Drug Overdose-Reversal Medication Narcan Without Prescription
CVS pharmacies in Virginia will now offer drug overdose-reversal medication naloxone (commonly known as narcan), the company and ...
May 12, 2016
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Opioid-Antidote Drug to Be Distributed to US High Schools for Free
A pharmaceutical company has volunteered to distribute free Narcan Nasal Spray in all U.S. High Schools in conjunction ...
April 29, 2016
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Norway Mulls Using Heroin to Prevent Deadly Overdoses
The pale, zombie-like addicts staggering through concrete underpasses make an unlikely scene in wealthy Norway's picturesque second city.
November 29, 2015
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From the Clinic to the Street: How the Explosion in Prescription Painkillers Has Created More Heroin Users
In the early years of my clinical practice, I commonly saw adolescents and young adults using heroin, older ...
November 25, 2015
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Doctor Taking Opioid Overdose Problem Into His Own Hands
Dr. John Aldis had no way of knowing when he graduated from medical school 44 years ago that ...
November 14, 2015
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Naloxone, commonly known as Narcan, is a medicine that temporarily reverses the effects of opioid drugs such as ...
November 4, 2015
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Obama Says US Will Tackle Prescription Drug Abuse
Traveling to a region in the throes of a drug abuse crisis, President Obama promised Wednesday to use ...
October 21, 2015
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