Heroin's Climbing Death Toll Prompts Community Response
Heroin's climbing death toll prompts community response
New ideas to attack the heroin problem range from offering immunity to someone who's using drugs and who reports an overdose by calling 911 to giving police the ability to use a fast-acting drug that can revive someone who has overdosed.
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More New Hampshire emergency responders to carry anti-overdose drug Narcan
CONCORD – State health officials have expanded the number of emergency providers allowed to administer a drug to treat overdoses in the face of skyrocketing levels of heroin addiction and deaths in New Hampshire. Gov. Maggie Hassan announced Friday that the state’s Medical Control Board approved a measure to allow emergency medical technicians to give overdose victims Narcan, an “narcotic …
Heroin Addiction – Yahoo News Search Results
More NH emergency responders to carry anti-overdose drug Narcan
CONCORD – State health officials have expanded the number of emergency providers allowed to administer a drug to treat overdoses in the face of skyrocketing levels of heroin addiction and deaths in New Hampshire. Gov. Maggie Hassan announced Friday that the state’s Medical Control Board approved a measure to allow emergency medical technicians to give overdose victims Narcan, a “narcotic …
Heroin Addiction – Yahoo News Search Results