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Libraries are dealing with the opioid crisis too. Here’s what they’re doing to keep people safe
Library staff say addressing substance use and addiction has become yet another societal gap filled by public libraries.
Opioid orphans: Grandparents struggle to raise children left behind
Between 2011 to 2021, an estimated 321,566 children lost a parent to drug overdose. Parental deaths from drug overdose rose ...
Spokane leaders propose $1.5 million investment to combat the opioid crisis with settlement funds
One component of the plan is a $500,000 investment to increase the number of sobering beds at Spokane Treatment and Recovery ...
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Opioid crisis shifts: declining deaths, emerging threats
The current administration has made fentanyl interdiction a key variable in its ongoing trade talks, using the issue as leverage in negotiations with Canada and Mexico. As concerns about tariffs ...
Montgomery County groups receive $4 million to combat opioid epidemic
Montgomery County groups have secured $4 million from an Ohio nonprofit to combat the ongoing opioid crisis. See who got the ...
New Chandler opioid crisis team 'aims to make a meaningful difference in saving lives'
A team of trained crisis response professionals in Chandler will answer 911 calls on overdoses and providing life-saving ...
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The Central Valley needs a real solution to combat the opioid crisis
"We need to pass legislation that ensures patients have better access to FDA-approved, non-opioid pain management ...
‘Long Bright River’ is best when it offers a humane look at the opioid crisis
Novelist Liz Moore spent years researching Philadelphia’s troubled Kensington neighborhood for her bestselling book “Long ...
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HEAL dissolves after years of fighting opioid crisis in Cayuga County
The Heroin Epidemic Action League, a grassroots organization that spent nearly a decade combating addiction in Cayuga County, ...
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Chandler Fire Department Launches Crisis Intervention Opioid Response Unit to Combat Overdose Surge
Chandler Fire Department launches CR2840, a unit to provide immediate support for opioid overdoses with Narcan and on-site ...
Mallinckrodt and Endo to combine after emerging from bankruptcy linked to opioid crisis
Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals and Endo have agreed to combine in a nearly $7bn deal after the pair emerged from bankruptcy processes linked to liabilities over the US opioid crisis.
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‘Wonnim Red’: Ghana’s opioid crisis
Recently, a documentary from BBC on how some opioid-based medications especially ones containing tramadol and tapentadol, are imported into the country and abused by mostly young people in low ...