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Rangers and personnel at Pennsylvania’s 121 state parks and forests will soon be equipped with the overdose-reversal drug naloxone. Gov. Tom Wolf…
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A soccer player, an athlete and a drug dealer sat together in a half-circle in the center of the stage. Each character slumped in their chair, reflective…
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Fentanyl deaths outranked those attributed to heroin last year for the first time in Allegheny County, according to data released Thursday by the medical…
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Allegheny County is on track to see a record number of fatal drug overdoses involving fentanyl in 2016. According to the Medical Examiner’s office, 114…
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Allegheny County needs more resources to battle the opioid epidemic gripping southwestern Pennsylvania, Human Services and Health department…
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Pennsylvania is experiencing an overdose epidemic.Allegheny County alone has seen its number fatal drug overdoses nearly double over the past five years,…
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The rate of young, white females dying from drug overdoses in Pennsylvania is increasing faster than other demographics, according to a new report from…
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Norwin School District in Westmoreland County will start stocking the anti-opioid drug Naloxone, also known as Narcan, in its school nurses’ offices early…
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The Pennsylvania Department of Health has received a renewable $900,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that will go toward…
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Pennsylvania State Police will now carry the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone in their cruisers.In Pennsylvania, heroin and prescription drug abuse…