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OVERDOSE NEWS BULLETIN
News from Across the Commonwealth and the Nation
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May 26, 2017 to June 2, 2017
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06-01-2017 |
'Pimping out' drug addicts for cash (Philadelphia) In Philadelphia, addicts have become a cash crop, used by some treatment centers and recovery houses to create a perpetual money churn. On the street, it's called "pimping out."...(Philly) |
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06-01-2017 |
Protecting Reading's four-legged officers from overdose (Berks) If police dogs like Nero somehow ingest the drugs, just like humans, they could get high and potentially overdose. That's why the Reading Police Department is now carrying Naloxone, which reverses the effects of an opioid overdose, specifically for K9s...(WFMZ) |
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05-31-2017 |
Restoring hope in the face of addiction (Bucks)...Hogan, who launched an online support group "Hope Against Heroin" when her son started using heroin, decided it was time to take her mission a step further. She started a non-profit, and in March, opened up a thrift store, "Hope ReStored," in downtown Quakertown...(WFMZ) |
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05-31-2017 |
Washington County drug court achieves recognition from the state (Washington)...Keller's was one of four testimonials to the effectiveness of what's known in Washington County as the Washington County Restrictive Treatment Program, in place since 2004 but newly accredited by the Administrative Office of the Pennsylvania Courts. A ceremony was held Tuesday to celebrate the achievement...(Observer-Reporter) |
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05-28-2017 |
Washington Twp. officer exposed to drug, given Narcan (Westmoreland) A Washington Township police officer was given Narcan and taken to a Monroeville hospital early Sunday morning after coming into contact with suspected heroin, fentanyl or both, the department said...(TribLive) |
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05-27-2017 |
Heroin Hits Home for Pennsylvania Police Officer (York) On a cold, wintry afternoon, a trio of police officers joined paramedics at the home of another first responder, Patrick Hinds, a comrade desperate to save his son Zach from a drug overdose...(U.S. News) |
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05-26-2017 |
Community mourns unexpected death of overdose prevention activist (Philadelphia) People trying to prevent more opioid overdoses in Philadelphia are reeling from the unexpected death of Paul Yabor, 55, a longtime local and national activist. Yabor spent decades advocating for the rights of those affected by HIV, hepatitis C and addiction. And for him, the struggle was personal...(Newsworks) |
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06-02-2017 |
Coaching Overdose Survivors To Avoid The Next One (New York) New York City is launching an opioid recovery program that dispatches "recovery coaches" to emergency rooms to counsel overdose survivors on how to avoid a second brush with death...(Huffington Post) |
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06-01-2017 |
One short letter's huge impact on the opioid epidemic (National)...Many public health experts point to a simple five-sentence letter to the editor published in a 1980 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. The 101-word letter, titled "Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics," was signed by Jane Porter and Dr. Hershel Jick of Boston University, who said that of their 11,000-plus patients treated with narcotics,there were only four cases of addiction...(CNN) |
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Contact: Tom Stark, Management Associate, PACDAA
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