opioid overdoses
How to Test Your Drugs for Fentanyl
Test strips are easy to use and can turn up synthetic opioids in heroin, cocaine, and other powders before you actually put them in your body.
How to Use Naloxone if Someone Is Overdosing on Opioids
What everyone should know about what this life-saving nasal spray is, where to get it, and what to do in case of an emergency.
Only One Major Ontario City Refuses to Let Police Carry Life-Saving Naloxone
Windsor Police Chief Al Frederick refuses to let his officers carry the drug, despite the pleas of the local police association.
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More young people are dying of overdoses in Canada
Harm reduction advocates are calling for youth-specific supervised drug consumption sites.
Study shows 1 in 8 organ transplants in the U.S. come from donors who died of overdoses
Thats a 24-fold increase since 2000.
As the U.S. focused on painkillers, fentanyl caused a 30 percent spike in overdoses
The problem is getting worse in major cities, and in a handful of states, mostly in the Midwest, where overdoses skyrocketed by nearly 70 percent.
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