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Fentanyl
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To stop fentanyl deaths in Philadelphia, knocking on doors and handing out overdose kits
On a narrow street lined with row houses and an auto body shop in the Kensington neighborhood of…
More kids are dying of drug overdoses. Could pediatricians do more to help?
A 17-year-old boy with shaggy blond hair stepped onto the scale at Tri-River Family Health Center in Uxbridge,…
A paramedic was skeptical about this Rx for stopping repeat opioid overdoses. Then he saw it help.
Fire Capt. Jesse Blaire steered his SUV through the mobile home park until he spotted the little beige…
West Virginia city once battered by opioid overdoses confronts ‘fourth wave’
From 2006 through 2014, more than 81 million painkiller pills were shipped to this city and surrounding rural…
DNA aptamer-based sensors can accurately detect trace amounts of fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new generation of high-performance DNA aptamers and highly accurate…
How a friend’s death turned Colorado teens into anti-overdose activists
Gavinn McKinney loved Nike shoes, fireworks, and sushi. He was studying Potawatomi, one of the languages of his…
California hospitals, advocates seek stable funding to retain behavioral health navigators
Health providers and addiction experts warn the funding structure is unstable for a California initiative that steers patients…
Horse sedative use among humans spreads in deadly mixture of ‘tranq’ and fentanyl
Andrew McClave Jr. loved to lift weights. The 6-foot-4-inch bartender resembled a bodybuilder and once posed for a…