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People Are Dying of Drug Overdoses, Despite Lifesaving Medications

Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D. | Posted 05.11.2012

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Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D.

We have waged a war against drugs instead of formulating a science-based response to a public health epidemic for which a life-saving medication is available.

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Antidote To Drug Overdose Is Put In Addicts' Hands

AP | DENISE LAVOIE | Posted 04.26.2012

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WEST BRIDGEWATER, Mass. — Steve Wohlen lay on his front lawn, blue, unconscious and barely breathing, overdosing on heroin. His mother ran outs...

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Heroin Overdose-Halting Drug Saves Hundreds Of San Franciscans' Lives

| Posted 01.22.2012

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This article comes to us courtesy of SF Weekly's The Snitch. By Lauren Smiley ​For the last eight years, the city's Department of Public Healt...

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AP Thinks Heroin's Got a Brand New Bag, Misses Story

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Maia Szalavitz

This kind of shallow reporting is why the media loses credibility -- a simple Google search or call to an academic expert on drugs or even a conversation with a long-time addict would reveal that $10 bags are not news.

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Michael Jackson and the Overdose Crisis in America

Jill Harris | Posted 11.17.2011

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Jill Harris

If Michael Jackson's death was caused by an opioid overdose, it might have been averted had people close to him had access to a simple and reliable antidote: naloxone, otherwise known as Narcan.

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