Heroin Overdose Antidote: Who Gets to Carry It?
Heroin overdose antidote: Who gets to carry it?
Supporters say the opportunity to save potentially thousands of lives outweighs any fears by critics that the promise of a nearby antidote would only encourage drug abuse. At least 17 states and the District of Columbia allow naloxone — commonly known …
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Chicago's heroin epidemic laid bare: Photographer spends a year with …
Mr Jines, who started shooting documentary projects in 2008, said he was shocked by the level of drug abuse he found. Greg, left, injects heroin … 'Generally the people in my photos are folks that I've come to actually like as people. If I don't like …
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'Killer heroin' causing fatal overdoses
"The dealers push this as being a super high, which it is, but it's also lethal," said Ellen Unterwald, director of the Center for Substance Abuse Research at the Temple University School of Medicine. Users typically don't know how much fentanyl is …
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