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Vor 3 Tagen · Fatal overdose reported in Owen Sound. Public Health is warning of an increase in overdoses and adverse reactions in Sudbury due to a number of new toxic substances on the street. Those who use unregulated street drugs in Grey-Bruce are being advised to use extreme caution after reports of 15 overdoses over the past 10 days, including one fatal ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Naloxone: how the antidote to fentanyl overdose works. Despite its potency, fentanyl poisoning does not always mean death. Naloxone, a drug capable of curbing the effects of opioids in the body in a matter of minutes, has become a lifesaver in the face of the unprecedented overdose epidemic in the United States. “Naloxone is an antagonist, a ...
Vor 3 Tagen · A recent survey that took into consideration more than 2,300 U.S. adults found that nearly 82.7 million people or 32 per cent of the U.S. adult population have lost someone they know of drug overdose. According to CDC, over one million Americans have died due to drug overdose since the late 1990s. Read on to know more about the study. , Health News - Times Now
Vor 2 Tagen · 6/12/2024. Department of Public Health. Boston — Opioid-related overdose deaths in Massachusetts decreased by 10 percent in 2023 – the largest single-year decline in two decades – according to preliminary data released today by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH). There were 2,125 confirmed and estimated opioid-related ...
Vor 18 Stunden · A recent study from the Pennsylvania Department of Health has found that Black people who died from opioid overdoses were half as likely as white people to receive the life-saving drug naloxone, otherwise known as Narcan. The study also found that Black overdose deaths in Pennsylvania increased by more than 50% between 2019 and 2021, compared ...
