OVERDOSE NEWS BULLETIN
News from Across the Commonwealth and the Nation
|
|
|
|
(Statewide)...Reaves shared his personal story in a video as part of Independence Blue Cross Foundation’s “Someone You Know” public awareness campaign. The initiative features a mix of print and outdoor advertising, personal videos and print stories from people affected by opioid misuse, such as men and women in active recovery...
(Philly Tribune)
|
|
|
|
(Schuylkill) Participants in the Schuylkill County Drug Treatment Court said Thursday that they have abandoned many of the people and things they thought gave them comfort in favor of ones that actually do...
(Republican Herald)
|
|
|
|
(Regional) Liberation Way, which has three locations in Montgomery and Bucks counties, faces an investigation by the state Attorney General's office...
(Reading Eagle)
|
|
|
|
(Montgomery) It’s a MINI with a message and Montgomery County’s top law enforcer may be driving it to an event near you as he touts the importance of getting rid of unwanted pills as a way to help prevent opioid abuse...
(The Reporter)
|
|
|
|
(Philadelphia) The South Philly Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia, located on 1700 South Broad Street, will host overdose awareness and reversal training events over the next month...
(South Philly Review)
|
|
|
|
(Cumberland) Cumberland County is on pace for a significant decrease in both overdose deaths and emergency calls for overdoses in 2018...
(The Sentinel)
|
|
|
|
(Lancaster) Through the first half of the year, opioid overdoses are down in Lancaster County. According to a report from the county coroner's office, there have been 52 overdose deaths. In 2017 there were 167 for the entire year...
(ABC27)
|
|
|
|
(Fayette) A collaborative Fayette County program is bringing addicts from near-death to recovery and spearheading similar programs across the state...
(Herald Standard)
|
|
|
|
(Statewide) Pennsylvania officials have announced they will award $3 million in state funds to counties that want to provide Vivitrol to prisoners with substance use disorders...
(Courier Times)
|
|
|
|
(Delaware) District Attorney Katayoun Copeland and the Delaware County Heroin Task Force have taken their efforts to remove dangerous prescription drugs and combat opioid use on the road...
(Delco News)
|
|
|
|
(Indiana)...Opioid misuse doesn’t just cost businesses, although it does. A lot. The effect of the epidemic on employers is just one of several included in Ryan Brewer’s study about how much opioid misuse has cost Indiana...
(Washington Herald)
|
|
|
|
(Ohio) Dealers are flooding the local drug market with methamphetamine, and users increasingly are replacing heroin and fentanyl with the highly addictive stimulant, Montgomery County Sheriff Phil Plummer told Trump administration officials this week...
(Daily News)
|
|
|
|
(Alaska) The number of deadly opioid overdoses in Alaska has increased again with the powerful painkiller fentanyl linked to a larger portion of the deaths last year, according to a state report...
(Seattle Times)
|
|
|
|
(National) For a doctor, learning that a patient has died is often an emotional moment. Emergency room physician Roneet Lev wondered if telling doctors when their patients die of an overdose might motivate them to rethink their prescribing behavior...
(NPR)
|
|
|
|
(Massachusetts)...A path from injury to medication, and then to addiction and death, may explain why workers in these jobs — men in particular — have had in recent years fatal opioid overdoses far more often in Massachusetts than do workers as a whole...
(WBUR)
|
|
|
|
(Ohio) Seven counties across Ohio are seeing a spike in recent drug-related emergency room visits and overdoses this summer, and officials say the incidents are connected...
(WOSU)
|
|
|
|
(New Jersey)...The fire department Tuesday began equipping its firefighters with naloxone, a prescription medication used in emergency treatment of opioid overdoses, in an effort to stymie the opioid epidemic's local impact...
(NJ)
|
|
|
|
(New York)...But it’s the same story with other addicts. Miglino and his fellow first responders on Long Island keep saving them again and again. Sometimes, a dozen calls to the same address. Sometimes, a death. Last year, an estimated 600 deaths islandwide, according to Nassau and Suffolk medical examiners...
(Newsday)
|
|
|
|
(Arkansas)...Arkansas is certainly not alone in this struggle. In fact, just this week at the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), legislators from around the country shared what their government is doing to combat this growing epidemic...
(Magnolia Reporter)
|
|
|
|
(New Jersey) Medication-assisted treatment is now considered the “standard of care” for opioid use disorders, leading public officials, treatment programs and others to work to increase access and reduce the stigma associated with it...
(Burlington County Times)
|
|
|
|
(Georgia)...The department is in the process of adding one more tool: an overdose detection mapping app. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said it gives them an unprecedented tool to track clusters of overdoses as they happen...
(WSBTV)
|
|
|
|
(National)...Now many mental health experts are sounding the alarm, claiming that benzodiazepine addiction is an epidemic as frightening and serious as the opioid crisis...
(CNBC)
|
|
|
|
(Australia) "Each year since 2012 the number of heroin-involved overdose deaths has risen in Victoria, and over time several local government areas in Metropolitan Melbourne have been the location of particularly high numbers of deaths," she said...
(ABC)
|
|
|
|
(United Kingdom)...While statistics show that the rate of deaths from drug poisoning in England and Wales has remained steady – 66.1 deaths per 1 million people (3,756 deaths) – fatalities involving the synthetic opioid fentanyl were up 29%. There were 75 deaths in 2017, up from 58 deaths in 2016...
(The Guardian)
|
|
|
|
(Northern Ireland) The number of drug offences in Northern Ireland increased by around a fifth over the last year, police said. Public health officials expressed concern about the risk of serious side effects or death through overdose...
(Irish Examiner)
|
|
|
|
(Canada)...Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services also reported an increase in overdose response calls. They responded to 147 calls last week, which was 24 per cent higher than the weekly average for 2017...
(CBC)
|
|
The information provided in this publication is not intended to take the place of professional advice. Readers are encouraged to consult with competent legal, financial, or other appropriate professionals. Statements of facts and opinions expressed in this publication, by authors other than Association staff and officers, are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent an opinion or philosophy of the officers, members, and staff of the Pennsylvania Association of County Drug and Alcohol Administrators. No endorsement of advertised products or services is implied by PACDAA unless those products or services are expressly endorsed, or are owned or managed by the Association. This publication may not be reproduced, modified, distributed, or displayed in part or in whole, by any means, without advanced written permission of PACDAA. Please direct your requests to:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
