A former paramedic who injected Elijah McClain with a powerful sedative avoided prison Friday and was sentenced to 14 months in jail with work release and probation in the killing of the Black man that helped fuel the 2020 racial injustice protests.
... The study, published in the American Journal of Public Health this week, serves as an urgent call to action for addressing the ripple effects of overdose deaths within communities. Overdose bereavement is neglected in both scientific literature and “in our conversations about the broader overdose crisis,” Alison Athey, the study ...
... make sure the machines are traceable and not used illegally, federal prosecutors said.“Counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl are a significant contributor to the deadly overdose epidemic,” said Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta. More than 100,000 deaths were linked to drug overdoses in 2022, according to the U.S ...
... prosecutors — another officer put him in a neck hold that rendered him temporarily unconscious. Officers also pinned down McClain before Cooper injected him with an overdose of ketamine. Cichuniec was the senior officer and said it was his decision to use ketamine. Prosecutors said the paramedics did not conduct basic ...
... in case something goes wrong. Even if your child never tries an illicit drug, they may be able to intervene and save a friend who overdoses. Everyone should know the signs of an opioid overdose – they include shallow or no breathing, problems staying conscious, and cold, clammy skin – and be ...
... s support group. Randy Smith: We will start with check-ins. William Brangham: Nationwide, women in rural areas are more likely to die of an overdose than women in cities. Smith knows the challenge is keeping people alive long enough that they can find their way to a new path ...
... address the opioid crisis and potential overdoses. For New Mexico, a key part of the harm reduction approach is distributing fentanyl test strips and the overdose reversal drug naloxone. Fentanyl is potent and can result in accidental overdoses. “If people use fentanyl test strips, then they're aware that fentanyl ...
... remedies to arrest this decline are fundamental structural changes to American society. It's not just vaccines to avoid COVID deaths or naloxone to avoid overdose deaths. You're talking about something much more systemic. Dr. Steven Woolf: If this had only happened during the pandemic, we could blame it ...
And then they will say, well, how do I treat this? And then that's when they will start. Stephanie Sy: Have you had any overdoses here? Aaron Perry: Not as of yet. There's been some close calls. Stephanie Sy: Teens didn't start using more drugs during the ...
... heroin and other opioids. For nearly two years, Ousterman avoided going by the gas station near their home in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, where her son fatally overdosed. But in August, she went to leave two things there: naloxone, a drug used to reverse overdoses, and a poster advertising a hotline for ...
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