Opioid overdose

  • While declaring the opioid epidemic a national disaster earlier this week, President Donald Trump said the effects are visible in every part of the world, adding that people in the society – young or old, rich or poor, urban or rural – have been touched by drug addiction. A report from the U.S. Centers for…

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  • Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Director Nirav D. Shah, M.D., J.D., has announced the release of the Illinois Naloxone Standing Order (Standing Order). This Standing Order makes a drug that is able to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose more readily available to first responders and the community. “We are seeing an alarming…

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