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Blog Entries - April 2018
HOPE Program, A New Approach to Drug-Abuse-Prevention Education
"Ohio, a state where 4,329 people died of drug overdoses in 2016, a death rate second only to neighboring West Virginia, is taking the fight against the opioid epidemic into the classroom with a new style of drug-abuse-prevention education."
read more …What's Ahead?
"Since 1999, overdose deaths have risen nationwide, to more than 63,600 in the United States. in 2016. Opioids were involved in 42,249 of fatal overdoses in 2016, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
read more …When Good Samaritan OD Laws Go Bad
"He was curled like a fetus in the tight space between the hatchback and backseat of his own blue 2001 Chrysler Town & Country minivan. Gravel and grass pressed into his body. His pants were down, indicating he may have been dragged. His captors were people with whom he'd gone out and gotten high."
read more …Public Release of Drug Data Could Help Ohioans
"In a few Ohio cities, online interactive databases now let anyone with a browser track the strange course of opioids, sometimes even daily, as a few jurisdictions have experimented with a new weapon in the arsenal aimed at addiction: public release of overdose data."
Read the full story via The Columbus Dispatch:
Stepping up public release of drug data online could help Ohioans
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