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Emily Ligawiec (right) and Officer Jon Cacela take weekly pottery classes together in Ware, Mass. Rather than arrest Ligawiec last winter when she took heroin and stole her mom's car, he offered her help.

Police Offering Drug Recovery Help: 'We Can't Arrest Our Way Out Of This Problem'

Feb 08, 2020
Police departments are toning down the law enforcement, and offering drug users recovery help instead. But convincing drug users to accept the help is not easy.
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The MX908 can check for the presence of fentanyl mixed with other drugs and such testing may help prevent overdoses. Sarah Mackin of the Boston Public Health Commission prepares the machine for testing some samples.

Built For Counterterrorism, This High-Tech Machine Is Now Helping Fight Fentanyl

Nov 27, 2019
Public health officials are adopting a law-enforcement tool, the mass spectrometer, to instantly identify potentially deadly levels of opioids in local drug supplies.
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In Massachusetts last July, several Franklin County Jail inmates, seated, were watched by a nurse (left) and a corrections officer after receiving their daily doses of buprenorphine, a drug that helps control opioid cravings. By some estimates, at least

County Jails Struggle With A New Role As America's Prime Centers For Opioid Detox

Apr 24, 2019
The National Sheriffs' Association has published a detailed guide to jail-based medication-assisted treatment. States hardest hit by opioids are moving fastest to get inmates the help needed to quit.
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Anthony Dooley, 32, successfully graduated from an addiction recovery program recently. He credits Cox's team with visiting him in the hospital and walking him through his options.

Knocking On Doors To Get Opioid Overdose Survivors Into Treatment

Oct 24, 2018
Within days of an OD from opioids or other drugs, users in Huntington, W.Va., are visited by a quick-response team at home, the hospital or in jail. Reversing an OD is just recovery's first step.
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Bridgewater State University campus police Detective Sergeant Robert McEvoy led the effort to place "Opiod Overdose Kits,"  containing the overdose reversal drug Narcan, to more than 70 locations on campus, including outdoor parking lots like this one.

On College Campuses, Making Overdose Medication Readily Available

Oct 22, 2018
College campuses are growing increasingly concerned about how to keep students safe amid a national opioid crisis. Some schools provide free and easy access to drugs that can reverse an overdose.
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Bystanders To Fatal Overdoses Increasingly Becoming Criminal Defendants

Jul 02, 2018
Prosecutors in 20 states are using old laws to file homicide charges to hold family and friends accountable in opioid-related deaths. The penalty is steep and experts debate its effectiveness.
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The Surgeon General recommends more Americans carry naloxone, the opioid overdose antidote.

Reversing An Overdose Isn't Complicated, But Getting The Antidote Can Be

May 07, 2018
The U.S. surgeon general has recommended that naloxone, the opioid overdose reversal drug, be widely available to consumers. But there are several barriers to consumers' ability to acquire it.
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Hospital emergency departments are tasked with saving the lives of people who overdose on opioids. Clinicians and researchers hope that more can be done during the hospital encounter to connect people with treatment.

Hospitals Could Do More For Survivors Of Opioid Overdoses, Study Suggests

Aug 22, 2017
Researchers say hospitals are missing an opportunity to help people with opioid addiction get into treatment by not doing enough when they show up in emergency rooms after an overdose.
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Fire Rescue crews say they get overdose calls even from restaurants and shops in Delray Beach's downtown.

Beach Town Tries To Reverse Runaway Growth Of 'Sober Homes'

Aug 10, 2017
Some local and state officials in South Florida are calling for more regulation of addiction recovery residences to help combat insurance scams.
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Battalion Chief Mark St. Laurent, seen here at the Franklin Square firehouse in Washington, D.C., says sometimes multiple doses of naloxone are needed to stop an overdose.

First Responders Spending More On Overdose Reversal Drug

Aug 08, 2017
With price hikes and rising demand, the drug naloxone, which can reverse an opioid overdose, is taking up an ever-larger share of emergency department budgets.
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Ryan Curran, the day shift operations manager of police and security at Massachusetts General Hospital, stands in front of the bathrooms in the main lobby.

Public Restrooms Become Ground Zero In The Opioid Epidemic

May 08, 2017
People often turn to public restrooms as a place to get high on opioids. It has led some establishments to close their facilities, while others are training employees to help people who overdose.
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Lisa, a client at the AAC Needle Exchange and Overdose Prevention Program in Cambridge, Mass. Nearly five years after an opioid overdose she still limps — possibly because of damage the drug cocktail did to her nerves or muscles.

What Doesn't Kill You Can Maim: Unexpected Injuries From Opioids

Apr 13, 2017
Emergency room doctors are just beginning to study a new kind of casualty in the opioid epidemic — patients who survive an overdose, but walk away with brain damage, kidney failure or dead muscle.
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Most people are worried about addiction and side effects when it comes to opioids.

POLL: More People Are Taking Opioids, Even As Their Concerns Rise

Mar 03, 2017
The number of people who have used opioid painkillers is still rising, according to a new NPR-Truven Health Analytics poll. But they're also worried about addiction, overdose and side effects.
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People in their mid-40s to mid-60s are more likely than any other group to be prescribed opioids with benzodiazepines. Both kinds of drugs can hamper breathing and mixing them is especially risky.

Risk Of Opioid Overdose Climbs At Middle Age

May 05, 2016
Most of the millions taking prescription painkillers are older than 45, research shows, and there's been a recent increase in drug overdose deaths among people over 55. Drug mixing is partly to blame.
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Imodium is a popular brand of the drug loparamide. Because loparamide is increasingly being abused by opioid users, some toxicologists think it should have the same sales restrictions as pseudophedrine.

Getting High From This Drug For Diarrhea Can Be Fatal

May 03, 2016
An increasing number of opioid abusers are taking huge doses of Imodium to ease withdrawal symptoms or get high. But at those high doses, toxicologists warn, the normally safe drug can stop the heart.
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Thousands of parents have lost sons and daughters across the country to an epidemic of accidental drug overdoses.

When A Loved One Dies Of Overdose, What Happens To The Family?

Feb 18, 2016
Grieving for the loss of a loved one to drug overdose can be difficult when it is mixed with guilt and remorse. But support is scarce for those who are left behind.
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Heroin sold in the U.S., like this dose confiscated in Alabama last fall, is often cut with other drugs.

Illicit Version Of Painkiller Fentanyl Makes Heroin Deadlier

Aug 26, 2015
U.S. drug officials have traced a sharp spike in the already climbing death toll from heroin overdoses to an additive — acetyl fentanyl. The fentanyl is being cooked up in clandestine labs in Mexico.
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Should Prescriptions Be Regulated?

Jun 30, 2014
The wide availability of prescription painkillers has produced a rash of accidental overdoses and death. And sometimes, the opioids come from doctors...
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