Overdoses

Following an increase in juvenile overdoses in April 2022, the Alexandria Police Department added a category of 18 and under to their data set for overdoses.

Although methamphetamine overdoses still make up the lion’s share of Hawaii drug deaths, about half of the state’s 2023 fentanyl overdoses also involved methamphetamines.

Although the tally for fatal overdoses in 2019 was not yet available, Minneapolis totaled 97 overdoses last year.

In 2017, the deputy police chief said 39 people suffered suspected drug overdoses in town, making seven percent of all overdoses fatal.

Because of the faster and more complete absorption of GBL relative to GHB, its dose-response curve is steeper, and overdoses of GBL tend to be more dangerous and problematic than overdoses involving only GHB or 1,4-B.

According to official data, 647 people died of unintended drug overdoses in San Francisco in 2022.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), fentanyl overdoses are driving the rising drug deaths.

According to the consent order, the Days Inn became a place where illegal drug possession, usage and sales led to multiple drug overdoses and a drug overdose death.

Advocates believe it's important to get naloxone to the people who are most likely to be around overdoses, including people who use drugs and their relatives.

After burying four family members due to drug overdoses, Patrick said he worried they'd find Randy the same way.

All the overdoses we see today is a result of decades of toleration of drug usage.

Amid increasing worries from Montreal community organizations about the impact of fentanyl, new figures from the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) show that authorities in the city's Metro stations are responding to an increase in overdoses.

Amid record levels of overdoses in Vermont, advocates have called for more addiction recovery services, including residential beds.

A safe medicine, it only reverses overdoses in people with opioids in their systems.

As a state, Colorado performed better than the country as a whole on most measures, with the exceptions of the rate of low-birthweight babies and “injury deaths,” which included suicide deaths, homicides, overdoses and car crashes.

A significant portion of these overdoses are from fentanyl, which is a cheaper and stronger opioid preferred by addicts that increased in popularity in recent years.

At first, the police viewed the deaths as accidental overdoses, but they opened an investigation when the victims’ families discovered the missing funds.

At least 43 incidents of drugging have been linked to robberies in and around Manhattan clubs dating back to September 2021, with seven of the incidents resulting in fatal overdoses, including the cases of Umberger and Ramirez.

A volunteer at “Chad,” as insiders call it, estimated there have been at least 10 overdoses since the start of the year.

Barrett says he is unsure if they want to make a business for Save a Life Stations, but hopes that seeing the kits will inspire others to create their own solutions to help combat overdoses in their communities.