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The rising homicide rate in D.C. is nothing compared with what fentanyl is doing

Washignton Post

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Author opiodlearningPosted on February 8, 2022February 8, 2022Categories Uncategorized

New opioids, more powerful than fentanyl, are discovered in D.C. amid deadly wave of overdoses

The drugs could worsen the District’s record-breaking death toll during the pandemic. Read More

Author opiodlearningPosted on November 29, 2021Categories Uncategorized

100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 12 months during the pandemic

The federal  government announced that more than 100,000 people had died of overdoses between April 2020 and April 2021. It is the first time that drug-related deaths have reached six figures in any 12-month period.

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Author opiodlearningPosted on November 17, 2021Categories Uncategorized

The US Faces a Naloxone Shortage at the Worst Possible Time

As fatal overdoses reached their highest recorded levels last year: 93,00 an unfathomable related crisis looms. Drug maker reports a national shortage of naloxone, the “antidote” to opioid overdose, reporting its injectable naloxone formulation as “depleted. Read the Story

Author opiodlearningPosted on October 13, 2021October 13, 2021Categories UncategorizedTags Naloxone

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