heroin overdoses

Help Me With a Cocaine PSA?

...  estimated 100 people die each day nationwide from drug overdoses and he said drug overdose … Read more on The Reporter Doctors: Pill abuse a 'crisis' in Pa. HARRISBURG — Describing prescription drug abuse as a growing “crisis” in… Continue reading

Panel Says Naloxone Is the Answer to Fighting Heroin Overdoses

...  says naloxone is the answer to fighting heroin overdoses Their message was unified: naloxone saves lives, and it needs to be put into the hands of people positioned to use it for that purpose. “Most people … Cocaine arrests… Continue reading

Which Is Worst??? Cocain or Coricidin?

...  wave of heroin apparently claims Hoffman as well as others He says the spread has been the most rapid one seen in drug abuse since cocaine and crack in the mid-1980s. %@AP Links. 216-a-16-(Jim Hall, epidemiologist, Nova Southeastern University,… Continue reading

Bail Requests Disputed for Drug Bust Suspects

...  requests disputed for drug bust suspects The number of heroin overdoses increased 81 percent this year, rising from 94 overdoses in 2012 to 170 overdoses in 2013, according to Lynn Police statistics. Police made most of the arrests around… Continue reading

SALINE: City to Create Drug Abuse Task Force in Response to Heroin Overdoses

...  City to create drug abuse task force in response to heroin overdoses Others serving on the task force will include: Terri Sibo, City Council; Joel Benedeck, school social worker; Therese Doud, substance abuse coordinator for Washtenaw County Health; Trudy… Continue reading

Prescription Drug Collection Effort Nets 700 Pounds

...  drug collection effort nets 700 pounds "They shouldn't leave it up to the community." Death from prescription drug abuse now outpaces cocaine and heroin overdoses combined, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Prescription drug related deaths also exceed… Continue reading