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Addiction Experts Cry Foul at Mayoral Candidates’ Push for Drug Arrests

IT’S MADDENING – Oct. 11, 2024 - Incumbent Mayor London Breed said the issue is personal for her. Her sister died of a drug overdose, and she’s had to lead the city through the fentanyl crisis, which other major citi... Read More...

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Opioid Overdoses Are Down Nationwide! WHY?

AUDIO – STILL TOO MANY – Oct. 9, 2024 - Drug overdose deaths nationwide are down 10% compared to last year, according to federal data. That’s a big drop in contrast to the skyrocketing overdose death rates seen over ... Read More...

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Staten Island Receives $700K to support Children of Opioid Addiction

HELPING HANDS AND HEARTS – Oct. 9, 2024 - STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. “The fentanyl and overdose epidemic is the crisis of our times and under no circumstances can we allow our young people to become collateral damage ... Read More...

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Senator Katie Britt Speaks On Opioid Crisis

VIDEO – TALK LOUDLY, HURRY – Oct. 10, 2024 - According to the American Addiction Recovery Association, the addiction epidemic is the number one cause for Americans 18-45. During her time in office, Senator Britt h... Read More...

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1 Dead and 7 Hospitalized After Overdose Incident at LA Central Jail

VIDEO – JAILS AREN’T SAFE! – Oct. 8, 2024 - The incident was reported at about 8:40 a.m., and the Los Angeles Fire Department found seven people, ages 18 to 35, at the scene, according to LAFD spokesperson. The Los A... Read More...

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DOJ Announces Largest-Ever $1.3B Pharmaceutical Opioid Bust

BIG PHARMA BIG CRIMES – Oct. 3, 2024 - The DOJ unsealed charges against five pharmaceutical distributor executives, sales representatives, and brokers. Three Houston-based pharmacy operators were also charged in the ... Read More...

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“They die too quickly:” Reversing a fentanyl overdose with naloxone

60 MINUTES VIDEO – SAVING GRACE – Sept. 22, 2024 - This week on 60 Minutes, Bill Whitaker reported on fentanyl … Last year, mor... Read More...

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Mother Guilty of 2nd-Degree Murder of Son After Fentanyl Overdose

VIDEO – NO MORE EXCUSES – Sept. 17, 2024 - Reporting by our 9News I-Team exposed that this was not the first time Robinson overdosed on fentanyl, but his third. The two other times, he was revived with Narcan at a ho... Read More...

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How Narcan Reverses Opioid Overdoses

VIDEO – PICK SOME UP TODAY – Sept. 23, 2024 - Narcan, also known as Naloxone, is a critical tool to fight overdoses. It rapidly reverses the potentially fatal effects of opioids in the body, but how does it do that? ... Read More...

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Professor’s New Memoir For Son Who Died

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Exclusive: U.S. Overdose Deaths Plummet

AUDIO – PLUMMETS? – Sept. 18, 2024 - For the first time in decades, public health data shows a sudden and hopeful drop in drug overdose deaths across the U.S. “This is exciting,” said Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the ... Read More...

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Drug Overdoses Leading Cause of Death in Teens

VIDEO – TEENAGE WASTELAND – Sept. 17, 2024 - The California Overdose Surveillance dashboard says in 2023, the county had 77 opio... Read More...

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Detroit Creates Team to Fight Overdoses

VIDEO – WHAT PRICE FREEDOM – Sept. 14, 2024 - Detroit is creating an opioid quick response team that aims to connect overdose survivors with treatment. The team is scheduled to be up and running on Monday. CONTINU... Read More...

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Can This Psychedelic Help Cure Opioid Addiction?

TRY IT ALREADY! – Sept. 15, 2024 - The Psychedelic Assembly attracts a certain type of clientele. The walls of the group’s Manhattan meeting space are lined with LSD blotter art and Alice in Wonderland parapher... Read More...

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Philly Residents Get Meds from ‘Bupe Bus’

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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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