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Lethal overdose: ‘We never knew to tell him one pill could kill you’ OregonLive.com 4 days ago Noelle Crombie, oregonlive.com © Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian/The Oregonian “I hope to be a house dad that gets to spend time with my future kids.” That's what Cal Epstein of Cedar Mill wrote as a fourth-grader on this photo of him taken by a classmate at Bonny Slope. He died in December of a fentanyl overdose. The students had been given cameras and photographed each other as part of a large art project led by former Portland creative laureate Julie Keefe. Jennifer Epstein...

Credit: Clackamas Co. Sheriff's Office Clackamas County deputies have taken more than 12,000 fentanyl pills off the streets in 2021. "Anyone who gets pills from anywhere other than a pharmacy should assume they're counterfeit and contain deadly amounts of fentanyl," said tri-county health officer Dr. Jennifer Vines. Vines says the smallest amount of fentanyl, a man-made version of morphine, can be deadly. So far this year the Westside Inter-Agency Narcotics Team in Washington County has investigated 14 overdose deaths. Ten of those are linked to counterfeit drugs containing fentanyl. "In the ...

Inaction leaves world playing ‘Russian roulette’ with pandemics, say experts Damian Carrington Environment editor © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP Governments must fill a major gap in post-Covid recovery plans with action on the root cause of pandemics – the destruction of nature – a new coalition of health and environment groups has warned. Crucial investments and actions are missing, the Preventing Pandemics at the Source coalition said, leaving the world playing an “ill-fated game of Russian roulette with pathogens”. Many trillions of dol...

The decision comes days after the Perelman School of Medicine recommended that faculty pause in-person undergraduate research due to rising COVID-19 cases on campus.