Canine police units sniff out suspects, missing people and guns, but they can also encounter potentially lethal opioids like heroin or fentanyl. In light of the national opioid crisis, some officers are getting Narcan training in case their dogs inhale or ingest dangerous substances during searches. Special correspondent Tina Martin of WGBH reports.
... and other collateral effects of the opioid epidemic. Indiana, for example, is working on a statewide, multi-agency database that includes information on pharmacy robberies, overdose-related ambulance calls and the use of the opioid overdose antidote naloxone. Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Virginia have declared the opioid ...
... Dr. Gaeta says it's about giving people in the throes of addiction a place to go before they find themselves in a full-blown overdose and in need of an ambulance. Kelsey first came to SPOT last year. Today, she says she's alive and in treatment because of ...
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday called drug overdose deaths "the top lethal issue" in the U.S. and urged law enforcement and social workers to "create and foster a culture that's hostile to drug use." Sessions spoke to the annual conference of the National Alliance ...
... percent of overdose deaths among teens in 2015 were unintentional. Deaths among males were 70 percent higher than their female counterparts in 2015, but intentional overdoses were significantly higher among girls (21.9 percent of all overdose deaths), compared to their male counterparts (8.7 percent). [WATCH: Trump vows to ...
With overdose deaths from opioids on the rise across the country, Baltimore has begun training everyday citizens to use a life-saving antidote as one tool to combat the crisis, and the approach is catching on. But while many more states and municipalities have moved to make Naloxone more accessible, not everyone believes this is the...
... deaths involving prescription opioids have quadrupled since 1999, as have the sales of such drugs. In 2014 alone, more than 14,000 people died from overdoses involving drugs such as methadone, oxycodone and hydrocodone. And today, at least half of all overdose deaths involve a prescription opioid. There is another ...
More than 30 people in Brooklyn were hospitalized Tuesday because of suspected overdoses on synthetic marijuana, despite New York’s statewide efforts to crack down on the drug The New York Times reported. Police said witnesses saw some people in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn smoking synthetic marijuana, otherwise ...
... HARI SREENIVASAN: But first: the opioid epidemic and the problems of treatment. Law enforcement officials told the Associated Press and The Minneapolis Star-Tribune today that music legend Prince died from an accidental opioid overdose in April. The superstar, according to reports, self-administered fentanyl, a synthetic opioid painkiller ...
An autopsy shows that singer and musician Prince died of an opioid overdose at his studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota, on April 21, the Associated Press reported. Minnesota health officials said the singer accidentally overdosed on fentanyl, a substance used in painkiller medications. The Midwest Medical Examiner's Office, based in ...
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