GRASP/ Broken No More and Partner Organizations Host Events across the United States to Commemorate International Overdose Awareness Day Grieving Parents Memorialize Lost Loved Ones, Celebrate Advances in Overdose Prevention and Call for Further Change. International Overdose Awareness Day is August 31 st . On the 31 st and in the days leading up to […]
Read the whole thing →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 […]
Read the whole thing →This video is about UNGASS 2016. In 2016, a Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGASS) was held on the topic of drugs.
Read the whole thing →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, […]
Read the whole thing →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 […]
Read the whole thing →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 […]
Read the whole thing →A life-saving drug used to reverse heroin overdoses can now be administered by all emergency medical technicians in Bermuda.
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Read the whole thing →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 […]
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