"When Will This Stop?" Taunton Police Report Four More Overdoses on Saturday

Published February 16, 2014

"When will this stop?" Taunton police report four more overdoses on Saturday

Filed under: social effects of drug abuse

The first trip to the apartment last week was on Wednesday for an unconscious man who was injected with Narcan, a drug that reverses the effects of overdoses, after paramedics arrived. The same thing happened with a woman at the location the next day. Read more on Taunton Daily Gazette

Heroin, painkillers 'destroyed everything': How an Ithaca man went from …

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We didn't see any negative effects from it," said Marcus, who now lives at an Auburn rehab facility and asked that his last name not be used. "We just saw …. No problem,'" he said. "I needed my drugs." The first time Marcus cashed a check, the scheme … Read more on Auburn Citizen

Rhode Island makes lifesaving overdose drug easily available

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Naloxone is available only by prescription, but it is not a controlled substance and has no potential for abuse. It also won't have any effect on a person who hasn't taken an opiate, so there is virtually no risk in giving it to someone who passed out … Read more on The Providence Journal