opioid

Lane County is looking to open a new clinic in Florence to help treat opioid addiction.

Oregon will soon require healthcare facilities to provide opioid overdose medication when releasing some at-risk patients.

HIV Alliance has launched a Medication Assisted Treatment (MET) program for people who inject illicit drugs in Lane County.Suboxone is a medicine found…

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…

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…

Lane county is designated a “high burden” area for overdose, hospitalization and risky prescribing of opioids. Each quarter, there are an average of nine…

Oregon state health officials are urging people to stop using the herbal supplement, kratom. Several test samples have been found to contain the…

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…