Special Report: Powerful Additive Leads to Spate of Heroin Overdose Deaths
Special Report: Powerful additive leads to spate of heroin overdose deaths
State police issued the warning, Bahadory said, “so the heroin users know what they are doing.” Fentanyl is prescribed in numerous fashions: as a pill, powder or liquid. More commonly, it is prescribed is in a patch or lollipop form. Fentanyl is listed …
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MaineGeneral Health's new Narcan program aims to stop overdose deaths
click image to enlarge. The Narcan emergency opiate overdose kit is designed so the drug naloxone can be sprayed into the nose of someone who has overdosed on heroin or another opiate and stopped breathing. … Liquid naloxone is turned into a spray …
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A mother's quest to understand her son's fatal heroin overdose
“You can't let someone hit rock bottom with opiates, because rock bottom is death.” In her son's case, she said, he had tried to conquer his addiction several times by “detoxing himself,” only to start using again. … Fish, the Colchester police …
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