Following state and national trends, Champaign County is seeing an uptick in drug overdose deaths and homicides. Over the...
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Cities News – A bill providing legal protections for a person who reports a drug overdose is headed to...
DePaul News – In March 2020, Illinois enacted a stay-at-home order in response to the coronavirus outbreak. The rules...
ABC News – No state in the U.S. has legalized safe consumption sites yet. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WICS/WRSP) — There’s...
NPR – Currently, such facilities are illegal in the United States and only exist in Canada, Australia, and 10...
NBC News – The hardest hit suburbs include Worth, Broadview, Maywood and Forest Park, places with low income residents...
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Thousands of people in Illinois died from COVID-19 in 2020, but there was another issue...
The Patch News – The same group fought Hinsdale to run a home for those with addictions. CLARENDON HILLS,...
Chicago Tribune – Overdose incidents and deaths rose in Naperville in 2020, which DuPage and Will county coroners attribute...
Block Club News – About 1,400 people in Cook County have died of opioid overdoses, already surpassing last year’s...
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OK: Tulsa harm reduction group helps prevent overdose deathsIn OklahomaJuly 15, 2021
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WV: Syringe exchange remaining open in Cabell County despite new lawIn USA, West VirginiaJune 27, 2021
WV: ACLU in West Virginia sues over needle exchange lawIn USA, West VirginiaJune 27, 2021
GA: Fentanyl overdoses on the rise in Coastal Georgia, officials warn marijuana could be laced with itJune 22, 2021