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OVERDOSE NEWS BULLETIN
News from Across the Commonwealth and the Nation
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September 23, 2016 to September 30, 2016
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09-30-2016 | County to use mobile medical office to fight heroin abuse (Mercer) Taking what they believe is a new approach, county officials and the Mercer County Behavioral Health Commission are going to provide a mobile doctor's office that offers a once-monthly shot designed to thwart heroin use...(Sharon Herald) |
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09-29-2016 | School expo targets drug epidemic (Luzerne)...The community gathered at the Hazleton Area Career Center on Wednesday night for a Drug and Alcohol Resource Expo, hosted by Pathway To Recovery, a substance abuse counseling and education facility...(Standard Speaker) |
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09-28-2016 | Gov. Tom Wolf urges more action on opioids (Statewide) Before a rare joint session of the Legislature on Wednesday, Gov. Tom Wolfimplored lawmakers to work together to help stem the tide of opioid-related overdoses and deaths washing over the state...(Morning Call) |
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09-24-2016 | Editorial: Johnstown's steady parade of drug overdoses marches on (Cambria)...In a visit to The Tribune-Democrat a day earlier, Ted Dallas, secretary of the state Department of Human Services, said estimates are that 50 percent of Pennsylvanians have encountered opioid addiction in their families, their workplaces or their neighborhoods...(TribDem) |
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09-24-2016 | Pennsylvania school districts stock up on life-saving Narcan (Allegheny)...More than 2,000 overdose deaths have been reported in Allegheny County since 2008, including 177 this year, state data show. Ten adolescents have died as the result of an overdose since 2008, less than 1 percent of the total...(TribLive) |
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09-23-2016 | Westmoreland County court offers addicts chance (Westmoreland)...Westmoreland County's drug court program marked its one-year anniversary this week, and officials hailed the success so far of the alternative diversionary system. The program offers defendants counseling, treatment and other incentives to remain drug-free...(TribLive) |
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09-23-2016 | Two families devastated by overdoses (Washington)...Both families stood by young men who used drugs, including prescription opioids, starting in their teens, gravitated to heroin in recent years and went through cycles of rehab and relapse...(Post-Gazette) |
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09-28-2016 | For Small-Town Cops, Opioid Scourge Hits Close to Home (National)...Fentanyl is supercharging the longstanding problem of drugs in small towns. Police, forensic labs and prosecutors are struggling to identify and safely intercept new narcotics that can sicken or kill anyone who handles them, and to combat trafficking networks that sometimes extend many hours away. Death rates from overdoses are now higher in rural areas than in big cities, reversing a historical trend...(Wall Street Journal) |
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09-27-2016 | Addiction, not overdose, claimed life of Easton woman (Massachusetts)..."It's not just overdose by death, it's all the medical complications that go along with it," said Joseph Shrand, the medical director of CASTLE..."If you're using IV drugs and you have an infected needle, the bacteria can lodge itself in part of the heart, and the infection puts people at a high risk of dying."...(South Coast Today) |
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09-25-2016 | Deadly Opioid Overwhelms First Responders And Crime Labs in Ohio (Ohio)..."The caseload keeps getting larger and larger," says Bob Topmiller, who heads the toxicology section at the coroner's office, where they test blood and urine. "We may have had a 100- or 150-case backlog a year ago, and it's almost doubled." The time it takes to process a sample has also doubled, from one month to two...(NPR) |
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09-23-2016 | Suboxone lawsuit could impact overdose rates (National) Virginia has joined 35 other states, including neighboring Tennessee, in an antitrust lawsuit against makers of a prescription drug used to treat addiction...(WCYB) |
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