OVERDOSE NEWS BULLETIN
News from Across the Commonwealth and the Nation
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(Washington)...Club Serenity board members provide peer support and mentoring for individuals throughout their recovery process and assist them in finding treatment programs as well as housing, whether it's halfway and three-quarters houses or just someone's couch...
(WITF)
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(Delaware) Delaware County may lead the state in the number of opioid-related overdose reversals with law enforcement-equipped naloxone, but it’s not the place where Pennsylvania State Police are making the most administrations of the lifesaving drug...
(Delco Times)
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(Statewide) The Wolf Administration today awarded three $1-million grants to organizations to build medication-assisted treatment programs for Pennsylvanians suffering from the disease of addiction, including one at Temple University Hospital, as part of the Pennsylvania Coordinated Medication Assisted Treatment program, or PAC-MAT...
(Office of Governor)
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(Centre) As opioids continue to be a problem in the region, the Centre County District Attorney’s Office has announced two town hall meetings that will look at ways the community can handle the problem...
(State College)
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(Statewide)
The renewal of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s executive order declaring an opioid emergency in Pennsylvania drew a new round of criticism as the administration’s latest moves to combat the crisis parallel provisions of a bill that the governor vetoed in April...
(Bucks Local)
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(Crawford) A federal grant will help combat the use of opioids and other drugs in Crawford County by providing funding for a direct link to treatment services when someone overdoses...
(Meadville Tribune)
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(Statewide) The Wolf Administration today introduced opioid prescribing guidelines for workers’ compensation to help health care providers determine when opioids are appropriate for treatment of someone injured on the job...
(Office of Governor)
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(Lackawanna)...Marty and Stacy Henehan started the foundation in the days and weeks following their daughter’s death from an overdose. Today, July 16, would have been Samantha “Sammi” Henehan’s 26th birthday...
(Times Tribune)
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(Fayette)...The bus driver pulled over and called 911. At the same time, Demaske, a recovering drug addict who had been hired at a Fayette County halfway house two weeks earlier and underwent cardiopulmonary resuscitation training there, sprang into action...
(Observer-Reporter)
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(Lehigh)...Known as the Blue Guardian program, it aims to reduce overdose deaths by bringing cops and recovery specialists to those who need treatment...
(Indiana Gazette)
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(Statewide)...Methadone is one of three medications increasingly used to treat addiction to opioids and is now considered the "gold standard" for treatment. It amounts to the most promising solution, and one that is increasingly backed by evidence, to a soul-sapping aspect of opioid addiction...
(WITF)
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(York)...That charge had been unheard of until the opioid crisis hit hard in the region, according to Pennsylvania District Attorney Association President John Adams. The case against Cruz-Cuebas is part of a growing push to charge dealers when they sell drugs that kill someone, Adams said...
(WHYY)
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(West Virginia) Drug overdose deaths are on the rise in rural areas, and in some cases are overtaking death rates in urban areas. But unlike urban areas, there is little data about overdose prevention in rural America...
(PR Newswire)
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(District of Columbia) D.C. Fire and EMS medics have transported about 100 overdose patients in the past four days with symptoms that appear to be consistent with K2, or synthetic marijuana, officials said Wednesday...
(Washington Post)
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(National) One of the nation's top public-health officials has explained why the fight against the opioid epidemic is so personal to him...
(Washington Post)
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(Delaware) Delaware made a commitment in April 2016 to better understand drug overdose fatalities, forming a commission that would review each death and the circumstances that led to it...
(Delaware Online)
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(Texas)...While methamphetamine addiction has been known as the staple substance abuse issue in East Texas, experts say opioids have been here for years...
(Tyler Morning Telegraph)
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(Colorado)...Her assessment is in line with drug-overdose numbers from Colorado's Department of Public Health and Environment, which show meth's enduring presence in the state. The drug was found in the systems of 280 Coloradans who died of overdoses in 2017 — up sharply from the year before. That number was more than five times that recorded in 2012...
(Net Nebraska)
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(West Virginia) While many people in North Central West Virginia continue to struggle with addiction to opioids, methamphetamine has become increasingly common here too, police say...
(WV News)
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(National) Attorney General Jeff Sessions put in a plug for President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee on Friday as he touted the role of law enforcement in reducing addiction and overdose deaths plaguing Maine and New England...
(U.S. News)
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(Illinois)...Illinois State Police said they believe exposure to fentanyl, a powerful opioid, caused the people to develop overdose-like symptoms. Medical professionals, however, say there is no evidence people can overdose, or experience other toxicity symptoms, from touching fentanyl or inhaling a small amount...
(BND)
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(Delaware)...Delaware Public Media’s Nick Ciolino reports the goal of this system would be to offer the same quality of care to anyone suffering from an overdose no matter where in the state they enter the system...
(Delaware Public)
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(Regional)...Fewer opioid prescriptions were filled nationwide last year for Blue Cross Blue Shield health care customers, according to a report from the umbrella insurance organization, while diagnoses of opioid use disorder dropped slightly from 6.2 members per 1,000 in 2016 to 5.9 per 1,000 in 2017...
(U.S. News)
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(Canada) University of Windsor nursing student Abrahim Abduelmula came face-to-face with Canada’s growing opioid crisis on his lunch break one day...
(Windsor Star)
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