https://edsource.org/2025/california-medical-amnesty-students/741677
California's Assembly Bill 602, to protect students from punishment for preventing drug overdose death, is needed during opiod epidemic
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https://www.citygatenetwork.org/opioid-overdose-treatment-gets-fda-approval/
Sep 12, 2025 - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an over-the-counter version of naloxone, the opioid overdose reversal drug previously available only as a...
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https://www.bioworld.com/media/podcasts/532-bioworld-insider-podcast/play/60-finding-a-better-longer-lasting-fix-in-opioid-overdose
Breaking news and analysis of the global biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device and medical technology sectors. In-depth coverage of innovation,...
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https://patch.com/illinois/alsip-crestwood/cook-county-opioid-overdose-deaths-homicides-drop-2025-suicides-edge
Jan 2, 2026 - For the first time since 2014, Cook County recorded fewer than 600 homicides in a year. The medical examiner handled 541 homicides in 2025.
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https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/opioid-overdose-deaths-what-united-states-can-learn-other-countries
Naloxone for everyone and supervised drug consumption rooms could be the future
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https://forefdn.org/fore-awards-2-million-to-advance-new-strategies-against-the-opioid-and-overdose-crisis-across-communities-and-generations/
Nov 7, 2025 - FORE today announced five new grants totaling more than $2 million to support collaborative strategies for addressing the nation’s opioid and overdose...
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https://nihcm.org/publications/visualizing-the-impact-of-the-opioid-overdose-crisis
83% of all opioid deaths involved a synthetic product. This infographic highlights the opioid overdose crisis in 9 charts....
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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12916-025-04475-3?error=cookies_not_supported&code=58ab8c4d-390a-4dc8-a8bd-c16617f51f54
Nov 28, 2025 - Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are frequently co-prescribed with opioids, increasing the risk of pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic inter
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https://camh.ca/en/camh-news-and-stories/opioid-overdose-signs-what-you-need-to-know
An opioid overdose happens when opioids disrupt your brain’s ability to regulate breathing. It can cause someone to stop breathing and may be fatal without...
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https://www.thefix.com/new-data-show-disturbing-racial-disparities-combined-opioid-cocaine-overdose-rates/
May 2, 2024 - The problem is not just increased use of stimulants and opioids, it is also a lack of substance use disorder treatment and a historical mistrust of healthcare...
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https://cmha.ca/brochure/carry-it-toolkit/
Aug 6, 2021 - Your campus needs to prevent and respond to opioid overdoses. The opioid overdose crisis in Canada is real and growing. It claimed 4,460 lives in 2018 alone....
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https://www.nwhu.on.ca/our-services/harm-reduction/preventing-opioid-overdose-deaths/
Dec 3, 2024 - Naloxone is a medication that can temporarily reverse an opioid overdose. Northwestern Health Unit works with the Ontario Ministry of Health to prevent opioid...
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https://maphealth.ca/toronto-is-seeing-a-drop-in-opioid-overdose-deaths-heres-why/
MAP's Dan Werb and Hayley Thompson spoke with the Toronto Star about the recently observed decline in opioid overdose deaths in Toronto. The trend is...
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https://www.propublica.org/article/opioid-makers-blamed-for-overdose-epidemic-cut-back-on-marketing-payments-to-doctors
Mar 2, 2020 - As ProPublica updates Dollars for Docs, we found that drugmakers spent less money to market opioids to doctors in 2016 than in prior years. Studies have shown...
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https://flintbeat.com/a-downtown-flint-vending-machine-is-helping-combat-opioid-overdose-deaths-stigma/
Apr 26, 2023 - Flint, MI—Against a beige brick wall on the east side of Flint’s downtown bus station is a single vending machine. It seems unremarkable, but on closer
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https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2025/11/13/nyc-reduces-black-and-brown-opioid-overdose-deaths/
Nov 19, 2025 - For the first time in six years, Black and Brown opioid overdose deaths decreased citywide in 2024, according to health department data.
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