OVERDOSE NEWS BULLETIN 
News from Across the Commonwealth and the Nation
September 30, 2016 to October 7, 2016
PENNSYLVANIA
10-06-2016Drug problems will infiltrate every community without consolidation, judge says
(Cambria) Could local municipalities, school districts, and police departments solve the challenges that face Johnstown and Cambria County - economic distress, street violence, a heroin epidemic and many more - by joining together?..(Tribune Democrat) 
10-05-2016Pittsburgh Region's Cooperative Approach To Fighting Opioids Held Up As Model
(West) Law enforcement, public health officials and policy experts are hoping a 64-page report released Wednesday will serve as a model for the rest of the world when it comes to combating the growing opioid crisis...(WESA) 
10-05-2016U.S. attorney calls out some Pa. coroners over lack of overdose death data
(Statewide) Some of Pennsylvania's coroners continue to hamper overdose data collection efforts in the fight against heroin and opioids, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday...(TribLive) 
10-04-2016Governor stops by courthouse to discuss opioid crisis with judge
(Lackawanna) During his visit to the area Monday, Gov. Tom Wolf made a stop at the Lackawanna County Courthouse to discuss the opioid epidemic with President Judge Michael Barrasse...(Times Tribune) 
10-04-2016Aspinwall officer to be honored for life-saving actions, response
(Allegheny)...The 15-year veteran in February administered the opioid overdose antidote naloxone to a 24-year-old female in Sharpsburg and minutes later, to her 29-year-old friend, officials said...(TribLive) 
10-03-2016Bucks Town Hall Meeting
(Bucks) This is the 4th of a series of Town Hall Meetings to help engage the community in the process taking on the changes that are needed in the community to stop the opiate and heroin abuse...(Bucks County) 
10-01-2016HOPE vigil held in Havertown for victims of opioid addiction
(Delaware) Over 75 Havertown residents turned out in front of the middle school on a rainy evening for a vigil of hope. Hosted by the Havertown Alliance for Drug Awareness (HADA) the HOPE (Havertown Overdose, Prevention, Education) vigil allowed families touched by opioid addiction a chance to remember and speak about loved ones lost to addiction and to know that people are here to help and listen...(DelcoTimes) 
10-01-2016Coalition for a Brighter Greene to hold another town hall on heroin
(Greene)...Coalition for a Brighter Greene, which formed at a town hall meeting last October, will hold another town hall this week to discuss collaboration and treatment efforts in dealing with the heroin and opioid epidemic...(Observer-Reporter) 
09-30-2016IUP cautions students in midst of drug epidemic
(Indiana) To raise awareness about opioid overdoses and help save lives, the IUP Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Program partnered with The Open Door to provide information and training about how to save the life of someone who is overdosing...(The Penn) 
09-21-2016Gateway Rehab readies to start treating patients
(Westmoreland) The beds are made. The closets empty and ready for belongings. All Westmoreland County's only adult inpatient drug and alcohol treatment facility needs is addicts who want to turn their lives around...(TribLive) 
NATIONAL
10-07-2016FDA Panel Supports Greater Community Access to Naloxone
(National) In light of a growing opioid epidemic that includes a spike in overdose deaths and increasing availability of potent, rapid-onset synthetic products such as fentanyl derivatives, a joint US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee has voted to increase the current minimum acceptable exposure to the opioid antagonist naloxone (multiple brands)...(Medscape) 
10-07-201619 overdoses prompt warning on super-potent pain drug carfentanil
(Michigan) A surge in overdose deaths is being linked to carfentanil, a super-potent synthetic opiate that produces effects similar to black-market heroin...(MLive) 
10-06-2016The radical new way law enforcement in Virginia is approaching heroin overdose deaths
(Virginia)...But her 2013 death came amid a wave of overdoses in this rural nook of northwestern Virginia. And law enforcement agencies were fast learning that one heroin overdose usually meant many more would soon follow, related to the same bad batch...(Los Angeles Times) 
10-04-2016Surge of Dangerous Drug and Overdoses in Minneapolis
(Minnesota) There is a surge of a dangerous drug on the streets of Minneapolis. And since Sept. 5, there have been 22 overdoses according to Minneapolis Police.  The overdoses have happened in every corner of the city...(KSTP) 
10-02-2016A Death on Staten Island Highlights Heroin's Place in 'Mainstream Society'
(New York)...Staten Island has been home to a heroin epidemic for several years, and it rivals the Bronx for the highest rate of deaths from heroin overdoses in New York City. The drug arrived to meet demand for opiates and fill the void left by law enforcement crackdowns on prescription pills, which were widely abused there...(New York Times) 
10-02-2016New $1M Monmouth Medical Center opioid recovery room named after overdose victim
(New Jersey)...Once a person is spared death from using opioids, they need immediate help to begin the fight against addiction - and they need it before they walk out of the hospital...(NJ Advance Media) 
10-01-2016Overdose reversals top 230 in Camden as outreach continues
(New Jersey) The overdose-reversing anti-opioid medication Narcan has been deployed by Camden County Police Department (CCPD) officers to save the lives of 235 people so far, the department said Thursday...(NJ) 
10-01-2016Rhode Island works to prevent overdoses with prescription database
(Rhode Island)...The state Department of Health says all of the health care providers authorized to prescribe opioids in Rhode Island are now enrolled in the state's prescription drug monitoring database...(TurnTo10) 
10-01-2016Opioid overdose deaths up 130 percent among Marylanders 55 and older
(Maryland) For all the attention on young people caught in the grip of the nation's opioid addiction epidemic, the spotlight has missed the growing population of older Americans quietly living, and increasingly dying, as addicts...(Baltimore Sun) 
INTERNATIONAL
10-06-2016Fentanyl overdose: 131 people in northern Ontario killed since 2010
(Canada) Fentanyl overdose has killed 131 people in northern Ontario since 2010, according to new data from the Chief Coroner's Office obtained by CBC...(CBC) 
10-03-2016Health Canada OK's non-prescription nasal spray overdose antidote
(Canada) Canadians will now be able to acquire naloxone nasal spray without a prescription, Health Canada says.  Health Minister Jane Philpott authorized the nasal spray, which works to temporarily reverse a potentially fatal opioid overdose, after an expedited review, the department said in a release on Monday...(CBC) 
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