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A year after winning a major court battle against the opening of so-called safe injection sites -- safe havens for people to use heroin and other narcotics with protections against fatal overdoses — the Justice Department is signaling it might be open to allowing them.
Covid has amplified the already aggravated, ongoing opioid crisis. During the first pandemic year, 2020, the tristate area saw double-digit increases in overdoses, driven by “an alarming increase in t...
Drug overdose deaths hit a record high with almost 97,000 reported fatalities in the 12-month period ending March, according to preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
POTTSTOWN â In audio recordings uncovered by detectives on a cell phone, two Montgomery County men discussed their alleged roles in the overdose death of another man, whose body was dropped off at a Pottstown hospital, as well as their attempted cover-up, according to court documents. Ronald Lee Shock, 35, of the 100 block of Montgomery Avenue, Douglass (Mont.) Township, and Joshua Kyle Benner, 28, of the 100 block of Hopewell Lane, Franconia Township, each was arraigned before District Court Judge Edward C. Kropp Sr. on charges of drug delivery resulting in death, conspiracy, possession...
More than 10,000 people have died since the president's august 10th statement. last year, there were more than 50,000 fatal overdoses. recently, as part of nbc's series one nation overdosed, mediced me our medical correspondent talked to people about the crisis. >> i was always a straight a student. high school, college, medical school. the first time i tried vicodin, it was different from any other drug i tried. it made me so ooh fof euphoric. after taking that first vicodin, i spent ten years trying to recreate that initial high. it was devastating. my addiction. it was very, very difficult ...