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Florida’s Revolutionary Pilot Program Offers Immediate Support to Overdose Survivors

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced a pilot program that takes immediate and effective action to save those who have suffered non-fatal overdoses. This program increases the speed at which a person who just overdosed can access drug rehabilitation services so they can escape this kind of danger in the future.

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Heroin Overdoses on the Way Down in Some Areas, Band-Aid for the Real Problem

Heroin addiction. The term itself brings out feelings of discomfort, sadness, and heartache. It seems like everywhere we turn there is another story of an individual who died from a heroin overdose—a life lost, a family tormented.

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Do Americans Need to Carry Overdose Prevention Drugs?

In August of 2018, the National Institute on Drug Abuse published the CDC’s statistics for American drug overdose deaths for 2017. According to the research, more than seventy-two thousand people died from drug overdoses in 2017 alone, a new highest-ever...

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How the U.S. Opioid Overdose Rate Misrepresents the Real Problem

In 2015, we lost 44,000 people to overdoses. But if we knew how many had been saved with naloxone, we would truly know the full extent of our crisis of opioid addiction and overdose.