NBC News – There were a total of 1,477 drug overdoses in the state in 2020. The annual average...
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Though it’s been pushed off the front page by the pandemic, Pennsylvania has spent more than two years fighting...
DePaul News – In March 2020, Illinois enacted a stay-at-home order in response to the coronavirus outbreak. The rules...
Washington Post – Mary’s Center, a community health center with locations in D.C. and Maryland, started its addiction services...
ABC News – Washington state health officials say preliminary data shows more people died of drug overdoses in 2020...
Peoples Defender News – According to data released earlier this month by Harm Reduction Ohio, Adams County ranked number...
Psychiatric Times News – According to Nora D. Volkow, MD, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, drug...
Newark Advocate – Licking County reported a record 47 accidental overdose deaths last year The coronavirus pandemic has rightly sucked...
Sentinel Colorado – In the past several years, Lisa Raville, director of the Harm Reduction Action Center, hoped that...
The Conversation – A syndemic occurs when multiple public health emergencies interact to make each other worse. This past year clearly...
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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
AK: More counterfeit painkillers are showing up in Anchorage, raising risks of overdoseOctober 2, 2021
MS: Methamphetamines: The personal cost of addictionIn Mississippi, USAOctober 1, 2021