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(404) 639-3286 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced today that federal funding may now be used to purchase rapid fentanyl test strips (FTS) in an effort to help curb the dramatic spike in drug overdose deaths largely driven by the use of strong synthetic opioids, including illicitly manufactured fentanyl. FTS can be used to determine if drugs have been mixed or cut with fentanyl, providing people who use drugs and communities with important information about fentanyl in the illicit drug supply...

Date Time Federal Grantees May Now Use Funds to Purchase Fentanyl Test Strips The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced today that federal funding may now be used to purchase rapid fentanyl test strips (FTS) in an effort to help curb the dramatic spike in drug overdose deaths largely driven by the use of strong synthetic opioids, including illicitly manufactured fentanyl. FTS can be used to determine if drugs have been mixed or cut with fentanyl, providing people who use drugs and communities with ...

Drug overdoses: Epidemic inside the epidemic is Alabama’s ‘other’ medical crisis Updated Apr 01, 2021; By John Meigs, Jr., MD | Medical Association of Alabama For the past 12 months the nation’s medical community correctly and understandably focused nearly all its attention on the COVID-19 pandemic. Now with millions being vaccinated, we are hopefully about to turn the corner and can begin returning our focus to a different health crisis that never went away and actually got worse during COVID. That crisis is the drug overdose crisis, the epidemic inside the pandemic. Research shows ...

‹ All episodes Heart of the Matter Former NFL player Montee Ball speaks on mental health, masculinity and making a difference for communities of color February 23, 2021 Partnership to End Addiction Episode 10 Heart of the Matter Former NFL player Montee Ball speaks on mental health, masculinity and making a difference for communities of color RewindSpeedForward Heart of the Matter Former NFL player Montee Ball speaks on mental health, masculinity and making a difference for communities of color Feb 23, 2021 Episode 10 Partnership to End Addiction He was a highly ...

Feb 1, 2021 Feb 1, 2021 Over 81,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States in the 12 months ending in May 2020, the highest number of overdose deaths ever recorded in a 12-month period, according to recent provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While overdose deaths were already increasing in the months preceding the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic, the latest numbers suggest an acceleration of overdose deaths during the pandemic. “The disruption to daily life due to the Covid-19 pandemic has hit those with s...