OVERDOSE NEWS BULLETIN
News from Across the Commonwealth and the Nation
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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.
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(Philadelphia) More than a hundred people gathered at the Free Library’s McPherson Square branch Thursday evening for a heartfelt vigil...
(Billy Penn)
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(Centre) On Thursday, Sept. 20, at 6:30 p.m., the Centre County Heroin and Opioid Prevention and Education (HOPE) Initiative will hold a Remembrance Ceremony to honor loved ones lost to an overdose...
(Lock Haven Express)
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(Statewide)...
Those are among 29 recent incidents of staff exposure to synthetic drugs documented on the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections website...
(Morning Call)
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(Lawrence)...The Lawrence County Recovery Commission in conjunction with Lawrence County Drug & Alcohol are putting on a family friendly event from 6 to 8 p.m., featuring music, guest speakers, food and more. The event is free...
(New Castle News)
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(Cambria) In observation of International Overdose Awareness Day, a local event is planned to commemorate those who have died from an overdose and break the stigmas attached to fatal drug overdoses...
(Tribune Democrat)
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(Cambria)...On Wednesday, the organization learned it was awarded a $125,000 Drug-Free Communities Support Program grant from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, in cooperation with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
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(Tribune Democrat)
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(Philadelphia) A big traffic snarl overtook Center City Wednesday afternoon, backing up cars along Broad Street and causing gridlock as activists staged a sit-in protest around City Hall’s roundabout for more than 20 minutes...
(Billy Penn)
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(Franklin) Purple will line the streets in Franklin County and the community will come together in September for a variety of events supporting those dealing with substance abuse and addiction...
(Public Opinion)
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(Allegheny)...
Danforth is in harm reduction services for Prevention Point Pittsburgh, an Allegheny County-authorized needle exchange program. Prevention Point’s mission is preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis-C and other blood borne infections among intravenous drug users...
(WESA)
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(Regional)
There were prison lockdowns in Ohio and Pennsylvania on Wednesday over fears that inmates and staff members were exposed to drugs or other unknown substances that made them ill, authorities say.
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(USA Today)
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(National) Emergent BioSolutions Inc said on Tuesday it would buy privately held Adapt Pharma, beefing up its portfolio with Narcan, the only FDA approved needle-free emergency opioid overdose treatment...
(Reuters)
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(New Jersey)...
Gov. Phil Murphy signed the bill, which mandates that certain schools must maintain a supply the opioid antidotes and also permits emergency use of the opioid antidote by a school nurse or trained employee on Friday...
(CBS Local)
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(Massachusetts)
Nearly 90 percent of opioid-related overdose deaths in Massachusetts now involve fentanyl, according to a new report that documents the rapidly changing nature of the opioid crisis. Less than 20 percent of drug overdoses in the state were linked to prescription opioids...
(Pain News Network)
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(Rhode Island) Rhode Island Hospital says it has been awarded nearly $12 million to establish a research center on opioids to help fight the overdose epidemic...
(The State)
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(Indiana) A preliminary federal report finds that Indiana had a record number of drug overdose deaths last year as more than 1,800 people succumbed to overdoses...
(U.S. News)
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(Massachusetts)...According to a report issued Friday by the Department of Public Health, the first three months of 2018 was the second quarter in a row that cocaine surpassed heroin in the toxicology for opioid-related deaths...
(Business Journal)
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(National)...The CDC study found that miners, food industry workers, health-care practitioners and support staff, and personal care workers also had elevated overdose death rates — showing the crisis is cutting across large swaths of the country's working population...
(Philly)
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(Canada) CBC News has learned methamphetamine claimed twice as many lives in Manitoba last year as the year before, and the drug is killing more people than fentanyl...
(CBC)
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(Australia) Prescription opioids, such as oxycodone and codeine are involved in most accidental drug deaths and more people are overdosing on anxiety and insomnia drugs...
(SBS)
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