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Friday, September 2, 2016
Here’s how one person described his addiction: “Heroin grabs you by the soul.”
And, right now, northwest Ohio is in the grip of opioid and heroin addiction. It is so bad that, according to a report on Greater Toledo’s problem chronicled in a two-part series by Blade staff writer Lauren Lindstrom, emergency services in Lucas County
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Monday, August 29, 2016
Katie Heltman overdosed on heroin the day before her 24th birthday and awoke to chaos — paramedics surrounding her and the jarring, cold sensation of Narcan up her nose. The heroin epidemic in northwest Ohio causes multiple overdoses a day. In Lucas County, nearly 3,000 drug overdoses have been reported in the last two years.
One refuge for those
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Friday, August 26, 2016
COLUMBUS — Accidental drug overdoses killed 3,050 people in Ohio last year, an average of eight per day, as deaths blamed on the powerful painkiller fentanyl rose sharply and pushed the total overdose fatalities to a record high, the state reported Thursday.
More than one-third of those deaths — 1,155 — were fentanyl-related, which more
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Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Aug. 23--When 1,000 people recently gathered downtown to raise awareness about the heroin epidemic, one of their chief demands was that Akron police -- in addition to paramedics -- begin carrying the heroin reversal drug naloxone.
That demand soon will be met.
Akron police supervisors went through training Monday morning in how to administer naloxone,
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Friday, August 19, 2016
In 2014 (the last year the data was available), Michigan lost more people to drug related overdoses than car accidents. And this wasn't the only sobering fact gleaned from this data set.
While 1,745 Michiganders died from drug overdoses that year (compared to the 876 that died from car crashes), the year prior, 1,535 people died from overdoses in the
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Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Anti-heroin enforcement efforts in Ohio could get a boost following Wednesday’s announcement by President Barack Obama that he will increase funding to fight opioid abuse by $17 million.
The funding will add Ohio and two other High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas to the national Heroin Response Strategy announced last year. Some 20 states are now
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