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Mother of Overdose Victim Teams Up with SF Giants

VIDEO – ONE PILL CAN KILL – Sept. 3, 2024 - Star pitcher Logan Web has been leading the charge after losing his cousin Kade to the fentanyl crisis. “It’s something that’s impacted Logan deeply and something he’s b... Read More...

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‘Hope is Alive’ is Changing the Lives of Addicts

VIDEO – LOVE MATTERS! – Sept. 10, 2024 - Hope Is Alive aims to change the lives of addicts and alcoholics by offering support groups and placing clients in homes with other people on the road to recovery. Julie... Read More...

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Exhibit Reveals Sketches of Loved Ones Lost To Opioid Deaths

JUST TOO TOO SAD – Aug. 30, 2024 - “Into Light” is a collection of hand drawn portraits and stories of ordinary people who lost that battle. Theresa Clower, lost her son to an opioid overdose after a ten year stru... Read More...

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Older Black Men Disproportionately Affected by Overdose Crisis

WHAT ELSE IS NEW? – Aug. 31. 2024 - Although white and Black people use drugs at similar rates, fatal overdoses have escalated in Black people at a much higher rate than in other groups over the past decade, and mult... Read More...

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San Francisco Overdose Deaths Hits 4-YEAR LOW

VIDEO – ADDICTS LIVES MATTER – Aug. 2024 - The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner reported a 15% overall drop in overdose deaths so far this year. The city is largely crediting the work of its night navigation team... Read More...

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Illegal Clinic Distributed 3.4 Million Opioid Pills

VIDEO – SUPPLY & DEMAND? – Aug. 15, 2024 - The four-year-long investigation began after the Sheriff’s Office learned Tri-County Medical Center LLC, was operating as an illegal pain-management clinic. Through the ... Read More...

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Grandma Charged After 2-Year-Old Overdosed

WHAT PLANET IS THIS? – Aug. 16, 2024 - A 47-year-old grandmother is reportedly facing multiple felony charges following the death of her 2-year-old grandson, Amani Day, who was found unresponsive in bed next to her o... Read More...

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International Overdose Awareness Day on August 31

SO MANY LOST – Aug. 2024 - This is the world’s largest annual campaign to end overdose, remember without stigma those who have died and acknowledge the grief of family and friends left behind. Our theme for 2024 i... Read More...

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Details About Matthew Perry’s Death Raise Questions About Addiction

IT’S COMPLICATED – Aug. 20, 2024 - Fans of “Friends” star Matthew Perry may find new revelations about his final days both heartbreaking and puzzling. An addiction specialist at MUSC Health offers some insight... Read More...

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Her Son Died In His Dorm. Where was the Narcan?

WHERE IS LOVE? – Aug. 23, 2024 - This spring, Vera-Schubert reached out again, saying Bobby had relapsed. On April 12, a roommate found him slumped over his desk in his dorm, apparently overdosed from fake Xan... Read More...

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Implantable Robotic Narcan Dispenser Reverses Overdoses

VIDEO – GET SOME TODAY – Aug. 24, 2024 - Researchers have developed a new device that will help to eliminate those delays and potentially save the lives of people who overdose. About the size of a stick of gum, it ... Read More...

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Hundreds of Thousands of Parents Died From Drugs Use

THE KILLING FIELDS of the USA – Aug. 14, 2024 - A young boy places a stone on the grave of his father as friends and family gather to commemorate the first anniversary of his death from heroin overdose. Betwee... Read More...

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Scientists Uncover Mechanism Behind Opioid Addiction – Could Revolutionize Treatment

IT’S NOT THE DOPAMINE – Aug. 16, 2024 - In the journal Science, his team found that an understudied brain region responsible for aversion, the dorsal peduncular nucleus, is highly responsive to opioids. Surprisingly,... Read More...

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EMTs Revive Infant From Opioid Overdose

WHAT-A-WORLD – Aug. 9, 2024 - The baby began to cry after an EMT administered the opioid overdose reversal drug Narcan. Medical staff at St. Joseph’s Hospital told police later that the infant had Cannabis and... Read More...

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The Pill That Could End the Opioid Epidemic

AUDIO – VERY IMPORTANT – Aug. 8, 2024 - This approach of broadening access has worked elsewhere. In the ’80s and ’90s, France pushed this treatment to address its heroin crisis and saw overdose deaths drop by 79 pe... Read More...

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N.J. County Sees 40% Drop in OD Deaths in 2024

VIDEO – COMPASSION AND LOVE – Aug. 8, 2024 - The county opened a shelter with more than 20 beds and social and medical services on offer and launched a program to offer addiction treatment to people brought to muni... Read More...

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FDA Approves Purdue Pharma’s Overdose-Reversal Device

THE NERVE – Aug. 7, 2024 - Purdue Pharma, the company best known for fueling the opioid crisis by misleadingly marketing the infamous painkiller OxyContin, received approval on Wednesday for a new auto-injecto... Read More...

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Jersey Doctor Busted in Oxycodone Scam

BAD DOCTOR – July 25, 2024 - Federal officials reported that 32-year-old Jasmine McGregor and 35-year-old Jhenelle Lewis of Paterson admitted to conspiring with Dr. Lisa Ferraro to illegally prescribe oxycodon... Read More...

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Owner Makes First Public Appearance at Camp Since Suspected Overdose

GOSSIP or REALITY? – July 28, 2024 - Colts owner Jim Irsay appeared at his team’s training camp practice Sunday, marking his first public outing since a suspected overdose at his Indiana home in December. He h... Read More...

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Med Students Begin Their Careers With a White Coat and Narcan

FINALLY – July 26, 2024 - For first-year medical students in Philadelphia, the beginning of their career in health care is often marked with ceremony, sacred oaths and, more recently, tools to combat the addic... Read More...

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Father & Husband Turns Grief Into Hope

AND INTO SERVICE – July 21, 2024 - Jeff Johnston meditates on his porch at 4:30 in the morning at his house in Cedar Rapids on July 7. Johnston uses meditation to help cope with the losses of his stepson, Seth... Read More...

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$86 Million Opioid Settlement

NOT ENOUGH! – July 26, 2024 - Indivior reached an $86 million settlement with 16 U.S. states over the drug manufacturer’s alleged role in spreading opioid addiction across the United States, New York Att... Read More...

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The Opioid Crisis: A Silent Killer Lurking

WILL IT EVER END? – July 26, 2024 - Dr. Louise Stanger, a noted interventionist, stresses the need for compassion. “Only through meeting individuals where they are at with empathy and care can we build pathway... Read More...

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Overdose Deaths in Rhode Island Down 7.3%

LIFE IS PRECIOUS – July 10, 2024 - “The needle is moving in the right direction, but we must continue to build upon our multi-faceted approach to save lives because we know that addiction is a disease and reco... Read More...

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Jane Lynch Reflects on Deaths of Cory Monteith and Naya Rivera

SADNESS REMAINS – July 7, 2024 - This month marks 11 years since alum Cory Monteith died of a drug overdose, as well as four years since the passing of costar Naya Rivera in a boating accident. “Just such yout... Read More...

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Acupuncture Can Shorten Methadone Treatments

EAST MEETS WEST – July 10, 2024 - Eight weeks of acupuncture was found to reduce the dose of methadone needed to control opioid cravings, which could make patients likelier to stick with their treatment. ... Read More...

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Philly Jails Plagued with Overdoses

REHAB NOT HANDCUFFS – July 7, 2024 - Since 2018, just over two dozen people have died from drug-related deaths in Philadelphia jails, where drugs are widely accessible, according to an Inquirer review of recor... Read More...

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Coach Scott Cochran Reveals Opioid Addiction

FREE AT LAST – June 29, 2024 - Cochran rose to a prominence in college football, he battled debilitating headaches. His doctors tried multiple medications until, in 2010, eventually landing on a solution: oxyc... Read More...

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Experimental Drug Supercharges Overdose Reversal Medicine

YES! APPROVE IT FAST – July 3, 2024 - Now, researchers have found an approach that could extend naloxone’s lifesaving power, even in the face of ever-more-dangerous opioids. A team of researchers from Washington Un... Read More...

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Shifty Shellshock Talked Sobriety Months Before Fatal OD

VIDEO – REMEMBERING SETH BINZER – JULY 5, 2024 - Late Crazy Town frontman was sober and happy a few months before his accidental drug overdose ... and seemed committed to staying on the wagon. Shifty’s friend and s... Read More...

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