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The city of Decatur will work with View Point Health to create a co-responder program in which a full-time licensed behavioral health clinician will be assigned to the Decatur Police Department to provide mental health services.
Ali Norris organized a countywide Out of the Darkness walk to raise awareness of and money for suicide prevention after losing her brother and a classmate. Two months before the walk, a teacher in her school died by suicide.
The state’s daily COVID summary is now based on a 7-day average: 805,326 residents have tested positive for COVID-19, with 3,727 testing positive over the last 7 days; the 7-day positivity rate is 6.23%, the state Department of Public Health (DPH) reported. The state reported 13,868,520 PCR/NAAT tests; with 59,818 residents testing positive over the […]
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Between early February and mid-March, at least 66 emergency department visits in Georgia involved the use of cocaine, methamphetamine, crack, heroin, pain killers and cannabis products that were likely laced with fentanyl, which is 30 to 50 times stronger than heroin. Experts worry about increased risk of overdose when users believe that the pills are legitimate pharmaceutical products.