OVERDOSE NEWS BULLETIN
News from Across the Commonwealth and the Nation
|
|
August 31, 2018
International Overdose Awareness Day is a global event held on August 31 each year and aims to raise awareness of overdose and reduce the stigma of a drug related death. It also acknowledges the grief felt by families and friends remembering those who have died or had a permanent injury as a result of drug overdose.
|
|
|
|
(Armstrong) Governor Tom Wolf today toured the Armstrong County Memorial Hospital’s (ACMH) ER to highlight the region’s successful warm handoff program and to discuss his administration’s efforts to battle the opioid epidemic, especially in rural Pennsylvania...
(Office of Governor)
|
|
|
|
(Statewide) Just as it is in Philadelphia, the synthetic opioid fentanyl is driving the overdose crisis throughout Pennsylvania, new data from the Drug Enforcement Administration show...
(Philly)
|
|
|
|
(Chester) As part of Chester County’s commitment to tackle the opioid and heroin epidemic, the County’s Department of Drug & Alcohol Services announces the County’s participation in “International Overdose Awareness Day” on Friday, August 31, 2018...
(Daily Local)
|
|
|
|
(Statewide)...Roughly 5,456 drug-related overdose deaths were reported by coroners and medical examiners in Pennsylvania for 2017. The number represents a rate of 42 deaths per 100,000 people and a 64 percent increase in overdose deaths from 2015 to 2017...
(CBS Local)
|
|
|
|
(Schuylkill)...The nonprofit event, which was held at Barefield Park on Saturday, August 18, welcomed more than two dozen people of all ages from different parts of Schuylkill County, where Pottsville is located...
(Addiction Now)
|
|
|
|
(Northampton) Northampton County Executive Lamont McClure and the Department of Human Services will hold a grand opening of a resource center for individuals in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. ..
(WFMZ)
|
|
|
|
(Statewide) Preliminary figures released by the CDC show a 15 percent increase in opioid overdose deaths in 2017, particularly those linked to fentanyl...
(Patch)
|
|
|
|
(Indiana)...On Aug. 31, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. on North Seventh Street’s IRMC Park, several organizations from across Indiana County will gather to honor and remember the victims of the drug crisis at a local version of International Overdose Awareness Day...
(Indiana Gazette)
|
|
|
|
(York) In York County, the fatal overdose trend is still going in the wrong direction, with coroner Pam Gay counting about 25 more deaths than at this time last year...
(PennLive)
|
|
|
|
(West Virginia) West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has joined a bipartisan group of 52 state and territory attorneys general in support of the Stopping Overdoses of Fentanyl Analogues (SOFA) Act. ..
(Register-Herald)
|
|
|
|
(Illinois) Gov. Bruce Rauner says a suite of new laws will “dramatically improve” mental health and addiction treatment in Illinois as part of a larger effort to address the state’s opioid crisis...
(WTTW)
|
|
|
|
(Wisconsin) A lifesaving drug that can reverse a heroin or opioid overdose should be easily available at pharmacies across Wisconsin. But a survey of more than 450 pharmacies in the state turned up conflicting guidance from staff members when asked how to purchase naloxone, known by its brand name Narcan...
(Journal Sentinel)
|
|
|
|
(National) As we all work to confront the staggering human and economic toll created by the opioid crisis, we recognize the critical role that health care providers play in addressing this public health priority...
(FDA)
|
|
|
|
(Maryland) Patients who wind up in emergency rooms because of drug use have far more types of drugs in their systems than the standard screening test used by hospitals is catching, a new study has found...
(Baltimore Sun)
|
|
|
|
(Texas) Researchers say drug overdoses were the leading cause of maternal deaths in Texas between 2012 and 2015, with opioids to blame for the majority of those...
(U.S. News)
|
|
|
|
(Maine) Data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Maine is the sixth worst state when it comes to an increase in overdose deaths...
(Bangor Daily News)
|
|
|
|
(Utah) Defying a worrisome national trend, Utah recently recorded the nation's second-largest drop in drug overdose deaths in estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
(Deseret News)
|
|
|
|
(National) Some hospital emergency departments are giving people medicine for withdrawal, plugging a hole in a system that too often fails to provide immediate treatment...
(NY Times)
|
|
|
|
(Michigan) An estimated 2,662 Michigan residents died from drug overdoses in 2017, according to a report released this week by the federal Centers for Disease Control...
(MILive)
|
|
|
|
(Netherlands) The number of people overdosing on the powerful painkiller oxycodone in the Netherlands has gone up six fold in ten years, according to figures by toxicology centre NVIC published on Friday...
(Dutch News)
|
|
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:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
