One of the most devastating news stories of 2015 has been the growing heroin epidemic in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says heroin use has more than doubled among young adults ages 18–25, and the rate of overdose deaths from opioids has gone up 200 percent. Mayo Clinic addiction specialist Dr. Jon Ebbert says supporting treatment and prevention efforts are important, as is making the prescription drug naloxone available to help reverse heroin overdoses. Vivien Williams has more. Video Rating: / 5
Spurned by physicians, more users seem to be turning to street drugs that contain fentanyl and similar substances. Fatal drug overdose deaths in the United States rose by 12% from 2016 to 2017. And illicit synthetic opioids such as fentanyl are linked to an estimated 60% of opioid-related deaths. Visit www.mdedge.com for more details. Video Rating: / 5
Kevin Simmers is a former police sergeant in Hagerstown, Maryland. During his tenure as a narcotics officer, he vehemently pursued drug arrests. “I believed my entire life that incarceration was the answer to this drug war,” Simmers says in a new documentary from The Atlantic. Then his 18-year-old daughter, Brooke, became addicted to opioid pain pills. Video Rating: / 5
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More than 1,500 people die each year in Ohio from a drug overdose. Now, we have a way to prevent many of those deaths. Naloxone, also known as Narcan can reverse an overdose that is caused by an opioid drug. Nationwide Children’s Hospital is helping families with children addicted to these drugs by prescribing a drug overdose kit with Narcan. Watch here how it works.
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This video offers step by step instructions on how to assemble a drug overdose kit provide by Nationwide Children’s Hospital. The kit has a 95 to 100 percent success rate if used properly. The kit must be prescribed by a physician and only works on opioids.
