Overdoses are on the rise in Washington State, and could break another record this year as the powerful opioid fentanyl continues...
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Medication-assisted treatment for substance use disorders has a new venue: the grocery store. Ideal Option, which operates more than...
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...
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SC: South Carolina City Works to Map Drug Overdose Hot SpotsIn South Carolina, USANovember 15, 2021
IN: Here’s where you can find Narcan in Evansville, for treatment of opioid overdosesNovember 15, 2021
US: Heroin overdose deaths more likely to occur shortly after hospital dischargeIn USAOctober 6, 2021
NM: UNM joins study to treat neonatal opioid withdrawal syndromeIn New Mexico, USAOctober 6, 2021
OR: New drop-in peer centers opening to help with addictionOctober 2, 2021