FDA Approves Easy-to-Use Heroin Overdose Antidote

FDA approves easy-to-use heroin overdose antidote

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Police in Quincy, Mass., have been carrying naloxone nasal spray since 2010 and said in July 2013 that they used naloxone 179 times, reversing 170 of those overdoses — a 95 percent success rate. Some have … Attorney General Eric Holder also weighed … Read more on Sioux City Journal

 

A look at heroin abuse in Mississippi

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31, 2012 there were 129 heroin treatment admissions in Mississippi. MBN statistics indicate that during calendar 2012 approximately 29 percent of all drug cases initiated were for cocaine, primarily crack cocaine. Marijuana represented about 32 percent … Read more on Albany Times Union

 

Effort underway to combat growing drug trade in oil patch

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Drugs and dealers are popping up in all kinds of places: Heroin is being trafficked on isolated Indian reservations. Mexican cartels are slowly making inroads in small-town America. And hard-core criminals are bringing drugs in from other states … Read more on Hilton Head Island Packet