Medication-assisted treatment for substance use disorders has a new venue: the grocery store. Ideal Option, which operates more than...
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NBC News – Residents are blaming the county’s needle exchange program that recently started again after being paused in...
Skagit County emergency medical providers can now leave opioid overdose patients with a supply of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone....
ABC News – Washington state health officials say preliminary data shows more people died of drug overdoses in 2020...
AP News – The Washington Legislature on Saturday approved an overhaul of the state’s approach to drug possession, after...
ABC News – FEDERAL WAY, Wash. — A Federal Way woman posed as a drug user and said outreach workers...
Townhall News – In the name of public health, counties in Washington are giving needles to underage children without...
Bellingham Herald News – Whatcom County has experienced five fentanyl-related overdose deaths in the last two weeks, according to...
The Post Millennial News – “I saw what looked like a 16 year old go to the van, then...
Tri-City Herald – Benton County has asked the state Legislature for $2.7 million to study building from scratch a...
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OK: Tulsa harm reduction group helps prevent overdose deathsIn OklahomaJuly 15, 2021
CDC: US Recorded More Than 93,000 Overdose Deaths in 2020, Up Nearly 30% Amid PandemicIn USAJuly 14, 2021
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