Submission Date: May, 4th, 2016 Attributing Author: Shane Gustafson Source: Facebook       The fight against heroin is making it tough for police departments in central Illinois to keep up. Lawmakers and police chiefs came together to talk about heroin today. I was at that meeting, and have the latest. Click here to view […]

Date: January,7 2016 Source: CBC News (http://www.cbc.ca/) Friends, I wanted to share with you a friend’s interview with her local TV station. Jen’s son, Dylan, died on February 4, 2014 from a fatal overdose of street oxy laced with fentanyl. Dylan was 21 years old – a college student. In the aftermath of his death, […]

Date: 11/13/2015 Author: Tony Leys Source: The Des Moines Register IOWA CITY, Ia. — The snapshots on the screen over Kim Brown’s shoulder illustrated the depths of Iowa’s struggle with heroin and painkilling pills. National and state experts had spoken before her at a summit meeting Thursday about the crisis. They used charts to show the […]

Date: October 29, 2015 Author: Kendal Patterson Source: www.elementsbehavioralhealth.com Denise Cullen made a deal with her son, Jeff, when he was young. If he waited until he was 25 to get a tattoo, she’d pay for it, whatever he wanted. It was a way of keeping him from getting something he’d later regret. Jeff took […]

A life-saving drug used to reverse heroin overdoses can now be administered by all emergency medical technicians in Bermuda.

GRASP announcing new support groups – Press Release

Title: CVS expands access to life-saving anti-overdose drug Date: Sep 24th 2015 Source: Aol. News CVS/pharmacy on Wednesday expanded a program that allows people to buy the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone—or Narcan as it’s more commonly known—without a prescription at its pharmacies in a total of 14 states to help curb the heroin and […]