Enlarge this image A highly potent synthetic opioid, fentanyl is often mixed into other drugs sold on the street, including pills, heroin…
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For One Rural Community, Fighting Addiction Started With Recruiting The Right Doctor
by Bram Sable-Smith December 9, 2018Enlarge this image Located in Northern Wisconsin along the shores of Lake Superior, Ashland, Wis. has had enough of substance abuse issue.…
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Enlarge this image In several European countries and Canada, patients with longterm opioid addiction are prescribed pharmaceutical grade heroin which they inject…
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A Rural Community Decided To Treat Its Opioid Problem Like A Natural Disaster
by Anna Boiko-Weyrauch October 28, 2018Enlarge this image Downtown Everett, Wash., the seat of Snohomish County. The county has declared the opioid epidemic a life-threatening emergency and…
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What’s The Evidence That Supervised Drug Injection Sites Save Lives?
by Elana Gordon September 7, 2018Enlarge this image Supervised injection sites, like Insite in Vancouver, Canada, provide drug users with clean needles and other supplies to help…
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Justice Department Promises Crackdown On Supervised Injection Sites
by Bobby Allyn August 30, 2018Enlarge this image A visitor to the Harvard School of Public Health’s mock safe injection site checks out the items on the…
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Justice Department Promises Crackdown On Supervised Injection Facilities
by Bobby Allyn August 30, 2018Enlarge this image A visitor to the Harvard School of Public Health’s mock safe injection setup checks out the items on the…
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Sending Letters About Their Patients’ Overdoses Changes Doctors’ Prescribing Habits
by Sara Kiley Watson August 9, 2018Enlarge this image Opioid prescriptions went down among doctors informed of patients’ overdose deaths. WILL & DENI MCINTYRE/Getty Images hide caption toggle…