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Overdose
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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…
City-country mortality gap widens amid persistent holes in rural health care access
In Matthew Roach’s two years as vital statistics manager for the Arizona Department of Health Services, and 10…
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,…
UT Health San Antonio launches Be Well Institute for substance use research and treatment
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) is establishing the Be…
Track opioid settlement payouts — to the cent — in your community
State and local governments are receiving billions of dollars in settlements from companies that made, sold, or distributed…
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…
Researchers sound a clarion call for greater investment in bereavement care
The public health toll from bereavement is well-documented in the medical literature, with bereaved persons at greater risk…
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…
Who knows best how to spend opioid settlement cash?
In this Gulf Coast city, addiction medicine doctor Stephen Loyd announced at a January event what he called…
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…