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OVERDOSE NEWS BULLETIN
News from Across the Commonwealth and the Nation
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September 30, 2016 to October 7, 2016
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10-03-2016 | Bucks 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) |
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10-01-2016 | HOPE 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) |
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09-30-2016 | IUP 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) |
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09-21-2016 | Gateway 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) |
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10-07-2016 | FDA 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) |
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10-04-2016 | Surge 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) |
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10-02-2016 | A 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) |
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10-03-2016 | Health 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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Contact: Tom Stark, Management Associate, PACDAA
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