RIDGWAY — Eighteen emergency medical services (EMS) providers recently gathered at the Elk County 911 Center in Ridgway to learn more about helping to tackle the nationwide substance abuse problem
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As President Joe Biden settles into office amid the coronavirus pandemic, nonprofits and organizations battling drug addiction are urging the new administration not to lose sight of the national opioid crisis that predates covid-19 and has not slowed.
“At the same time the coronavirus death toll grows, there is another killer in our midst taking the lives of far too many Americans: fentanyl,” said Jim Rauh, founder of Families Against Fentanyl, based in Akron, Ohio. “Already fentanyl and its analogues are considered chemical weapons banned from warfare by an international treaty. Yet a growing supply continues to infiltrate our borders.”