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Friday, July 29, 2016
The Toledo-Lucas County Health Department will soon begin a local needle exchange program aimed at preventing intravenous drug users from contracting HIV or Hepatitis C.
The health board voted unanimously Thursday in support of starting a program which will be administered at two local sites. Both the Talbot Center, a drug addiction recovery center in East
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Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Columbus — Republican Attorney General Mike DeWine told an audience of educators July 26 that he would like to see age-appropriate instruction on drug addiction from kindergarten through high school, as part of efforts to counter the state’s heroin epidemic. “If we’re serious about prevention, if we’re serious about education,
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Sunday, July 24, 2016
Ontario will become the first province to stop paying for high-dose opioid medications under its public drug plans, as part of a measure aimed at combatting the widespread abuse of prescription painkillers.
The Ministry of Health has posted a notice on its website saying all opioids that exceed the equivalent of 200 milligrams of morphine a day will be
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Saturday, July 23, 2016
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. — She had already made it through one last night alone under the freeway bridge, through the vomiting and shakes of withdrawal, through cravings so intense she’d scraped a bathroom floor searching for leftover traces of heroin. It had now been 12 days since the last time Amanda Wendler used a drug of any kind, her longest
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Tuesday, July 19, 2016
ANN ARBOR, MI — University of Michigan police officers and housing security are now carrying the drug naloxone, which can save a person's life during a heroin overdose.
The officers with the U-M Division of Public Safety and Security starting carrying the kits after training in May and June, said spokeswoman Diane Brown.
The division purchased the
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Saturday, July 16, 2016
CINCINNATI — Authorities are warning that an opiate used by veterinarians for elephants and other large animals is circulating among heroin users in Ohio.
The synthetic opioid carfentanil is 100 times stronger than fentanyl, the analgesic blamed for increasing overdose deaths, and it’s 10,000 times stronger than the morphine on the streets.
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