Montco art contest focuses on overdose prevention A Dock Mennonite Academy senior won first prize in Montgomery County’s Overdose...
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Southwestern Pennsylvania counties are making sure overdose prevention drugs are everywhere
/ Pennsylvania, USAAs Allegheny County grapples with the ongoing opioid epidemic, rural counties in southwestern Pennsylvania are quickly matching pace with...
PA: Pre-arrest diversion-to-treatment programs may reduce crime, overdose deaths
/ Pennsylvania, USACompleting a six-month substance use disorder treatment in lieu of arrest and prosecution for minor crimes may reduce the...
PA: Shapiro Administration Distributes 50,000 Wound Care Kits to Help Pennsylvanians Combat Xylazine-Associated Wounds
/ Pennsylvania, USADepartment of Health (DOH) Secretary Dr. Debra Bogen visited the UPMC Center for Addiction Recovery today to announce that...
Xylazine wounds contain black and yellow dead tissue and tunnel deep into the skin. Deep stigma around them can...
Wyoming County District Attorney Joe Peters is warning that ‘Rhino Tranq’ is the street name for Medetomidine, and is...
Thanks to state Rep. Carl Walker Metzgar (R-69) and local veterinarian Dr. Bill Croushore, House Bill 161 limiting access...
US: How vending machines help states battle the opioid crisis: ‘You don’t know when you’re going to need these products’
/ Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, USAThe vending machines also offer free fentanyl test strips, small strips of paper that can test drugs for the...
NACCHO Awards $350,000 in New Overdose Response Project Funding
/ California, Illinois, Louisiana, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, USA, VermontNACCHO Awards $350,000 in New Overdose Response Project Funding: Awardees in California, Illinois, Louisiana, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina,...
US: The Legal Status of Safe Consumption Sites
/ California, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, USAAs the opioid crisis continues to ravage the United States, nonprofits, city and state governments have turned to untraditional...
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