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The coronavirus pandemic resulted in more isolation for many people, and using drugs alone is a risk factor for overdose deaths.
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People were given free naloxone, the medication that can revive someone from an opioid overdose, at an event at the City County building in downtown…
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An Allegheny Health Network chemist is developing a longer-lasting version of naloxone, to stop people from slipping back into overdose.Naloxone is the…
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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration warned in 2016 that people became sick from fentanyl through skin contact or inhalation, but the American College…
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Pittsburghers can now get free stickers, buttons and window decals that say, “We have Narcan in case of emergency.”Narcan is the brand name for naloxone,…
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Eighty locations across Pennsylvania are getting ready to hand out free naloxone this Thursday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.The effort is intended to make the…
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Pennsylvania is expanding efforts to make the anti-overdose medication naloxone available to the public with a statewide distribution day next…
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The virtual reality simulation “Opioid Rescue” opens with an unconscious man lying on a basement floor next to an empty syringe.“The first thing I’m going…
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In January, 39-year-old Damian Chadwick died at a Bethel Park barbershop a little before 2 p.m. According to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner, the…
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The Allegheny County Health Department reports the highest concentration of overdose deaths in the Pittsburgh region from 2008 to 2016 is an area covering…