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Federal funds to battle opioid addiction coming to rural western Washington hospitals

By Lauren Gallup September 15, 2023

Map of Percent Change in Reported 12 Month-ending Count of Drug Overdose Deaths, by Jurisdiction: April 2022 to April 2023, showing Washington with an increase of 31.33%. // Courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

For people seeking medication-assisted treatment for substance use disorder in some rural Washington communities, there could soon be more options. Recent grant funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has been allocated to develop medication-assisted treatment (MAT) at rural clinics. Read More

Idaho Adds Naloxone Training As OD Deaths Rise

By Rachel Sun May 27, 2022

Health Education Specialist Caitlin Rusche demonstrates how to administer Narcan during a training session Wednesday at the Latah Recovery Center. Photo by Zach Wilkinson/The Lewiston Tribune Listen According data, from […]Read More

Sharp Rise In Drug Overdose Deaths Seen During 1st Few Months Of Pandemic

By NPR News October 14, 2020

A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) chemist checks confiscated powder containing fentanyl at the DEA Northeast Regional Laboratory on Oct. 8, 2019 in New York. CREDIT: Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images

New data from the CDC show more than 19,000 Americans died from drug overdoses during the first three months of 2020 with the country on pace to set a grim new record.Read More

County Jails Struggle With A New Role As America’s Prime Centers For Opioid Detox

By NPR News April 24, 2019

In Massachusetts last July, several Franklin County Jail inmates were watched by a nurse and a corrections officer after receiving their daily doses of buprenorphine, a drug that helps control opioid cravings. By some estimates, at least half to two-thirds of today's U.S. jail population has a substance use or dependence problem. CREDIT: ELISE AMENDOLA/AP

Faced with a flood of addicted inmates and challenged by lawsuits, America's county jails are struggling to adjust to an opioid health crisis that has turned many of the jails into their area's largest drug treatment centers.Read More

New Idaho Law to Make Overdose Reversal Drug More Available

By NWPB News February 14, 2019

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signs into law legislation to make the overdose reversal drug naloxone more readily available. CREDIT: Keith Riddler/AP News

Idaho Governor Brad Little signed legislation into law Thursday aimed at reducing the number of opioid deaths in the state by making naloxone overdose reversal medication more available.Read More

Dozens Overdose In Connecticut Park On Tainted Synthetic Marijuana

By NPR News August 16, 2018

More than 70 people fell ill in or around a historic park in New Haven, near the Yale University campus. Police believe the synthetic cannabinoid K2 laced with fentanyl caused the rash of overdoses.Read More