Albuquerque Journal3d
NM Health Care Authority to equip ISD offices with life-saving Naloxone
The Health Care Authority announced Tuesday that it would stock all Income Support Division offices with naloxone and train staff members to use the life-saving drug. Naloxone, also known under th ...
Quincy Herald-Whig3d
Purdue Pharma submits opioid lawsuit settlement plan, including up to $7 billion cash from Sacklers
Purdue Pharma asked a bankruptcy judge late Tuesday to consider the latest version of its plan to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription painkiller OxyContin, a ...
The Herald-Dispatch3d
Dept. of Human Services: Overdose deaths decreasing in WV
There’s been a 32.79% decline in drug overdose deaths in West Virginia, surpassing the national average decrease, according to year-over-year data from September 2023 to August 2024 from the ...
Toronto Star5d
Facts, not fear: Inside Mexico’s pioneering drug harm reduction programs
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Under warm strobe lights and pulsing house beats, a recent festival in Mexico City offered more than music, food and booze. Amidst the usual festival fare, a booth provided ...
Toronto Star4d
They say controversial supervised consumption sites helped them in more ways than one. They fear what will happen when they close
Jason Miles sat in a dark alley behind South Riverdale Community Health Centre staring down the barrel of a syringe. Homeless for about seven years, he had been committing crimes to support his ...
The Hamilton Spectator6d
B.C. overdose deaths drop 30 per cent, but researchers point to ‘emerging dangers’
BC Coroners Service data show nearly half the people who died in January due to unregulated toxic drugs had the depressant bromazolam in their system, which researchers say highlights “emerging ...
The Times of Northwest Indiana1d
Wording change set to make opioid overdose reversal drugs more accessible
Instead of specifying Naloxone as the only opioid reversal drug schools can stock, it would permit schools to keep on hand, and dispense in an emergency, any opioid reversal medication ...
The Idaho Press-Tribune6d
Facts, not fear: Inside Mexico's pioneering drug harm reduction programs
Since the mid-1980s, a number of organizations, primarily in northern Mexico, have launched informational campaigns and community-oriented interventions aimed at addressing drug use from a public ...
Indiana Gazette4d
Human Services Calendar
• 9th Annual Indiana County Decathlon next event includes a Nutrition Walk with IRMC at Giant Eagle at 6:30 p.m. March 26 at 475 Ben Franklin Road, Indiana. The activities are designed to help ...
Mumbrella3d
Whiskas spreads love for cats in new campaign, via Chep Network, Essencemediacom and AMV BBDO
Whiskas is on a mission to convert ‘cat haters’ into ‘cat lovers’, via a program and partnership with Essencemediacom, Chep Network and AMV BBDO. The announcement: WHISKAS®, a trusted ...
WNYT NewsChannel 135d
Rising to the occasion, Shohei Ohtani hits 2-run HR in return to Japan against Yomiuri Giants
He didn’t get his best swing on the ball, but the 6-foot-4, 210-pound slugger was still able to launch a slider from Yomiuri’s Shosei Togo 391 feet, which was plenty of distance to get it over ...