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Oregon will soon require healthcare facilities to provide opioid overdose medication when releasing some at-risk patients.
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HIV Alliance has launched a Medication Assisted Treatment (MET) program for people who inject illicit drugs in Lane County.Suboxone is a medicine found…
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Douglas County Public Health network has issued an alert for illicit opioid overdoses. The action is based on a sharp spike in fatal and non-fatal…
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Oregon’s Good Samaritan Law includes an aspect which has to do with drug overdose. It provides immunity from drug charges and arrest when someone acts in…
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Lane county is designated a “high burden” area for overdose, hospitalization and risky prescribing of opioids. Each quarter, there are an average of nine…
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Oregon state health officials are urging people to stop using the herbal supplement, kratom. Several test samples have been found to contain the…
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In Lane County, opioid overdose kills more people than car accidents. It’s a crisis public health officials have seen coming. Now, a countywide effort to…