drug overdose

WS/FCS approves policy to allow overdose antidote Naloxone in schools

2:00pm May 29, 2024

Naloxone, also known as Narcan, will soon be available in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools. Several community organizations requested the district keep the life-saving medication on school campuses.

Arts

'Euphoria' star Angus Cloud accidentally overdosed on meth, cocaine and fentanyl

7:03am September 22, 2023

by The Associated Press

Cloud, 25, who starred as a drug dealer on the HBO series, died of "acute intoxication," a California coroner's office said. His family has said he'd been struggling with the death of his father.

A team of volunteers with an Ohio-based nonprofit handed out 2,500 doses of a nasal spray version of naloxone, an overdose reversal drug, at this year's Bonnaroo music festival.

Overdose reversal drugs gain support at music festivals, but not fentanyl test strips

6:24am August 03, 2022

by Blake Farmer

Festival promoters are allowing lifesaving medication as fentanyl deaths surge, but volunteers are often left to distribute it, and more controversial forms of harm reduction aren't openly allowed.

Mac Miller performs an NPR Tiny Desk Concert on Aug. 1, 2018.

A dealer is sentenced to 17.5 years for his role in Mac Miller's fatal overdose

11:32am May 17, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Stephen Walter was sentenced on Monday. He is one of three men indicted in connection with supplying the fentanyl-laced pills that contributed to the rapper's accidental overdose in 2018.

West Point cadets walk on campus at the United States Military Academy in West Point, N.Y.

National

One person was arrested after West Point cadets on spring break overdosed on fentanyl

3:44pm March 12, 2022

by Deepa Shivaram

Wilton Manors police have arrested one person related to an incident earlier this week involving six males overdosing on fentanyl. Cadets from the West Point military academy were involved.

A man gets care in an ambulance after overdosing in San Francisco, California.

National

San Francisco's new rapid response teams race to save lives as ODs dramatically rise

6:00am November 03, 2021

by Eric Westervelt

The city's per capita overdose death rate is among the highest in the U.S. To help address the crisis, city officials launched Street Overdose Response Teams, part of a broader public health effort.

State prisons are grappling with how to deal with an increase in overdoses due to alcohol and drug abuse.

National

Overdose Deaths In State Prisons Have Jumped Dramatically Since 2001

3:49pm July 15, 2021

Deaths from drugs and alcohol have increased by more than 600% in state prisons in the last two decades, giving lie to the idea that sending addicts to prison can help them stop using.

Regina LaBelle is the acting director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. During a Thursday morning briefing, LaBelle said drug overdose deaths are up about 27% compared to the previous year.

National

White House Says Drug Overdose Deaths Spiked To 88,000 During The Pandemic

2:18pm April 01, 2021

by Brian Mann

The Biden administration points to fentanyl as the major culprit for the increase in deaths. Officials unveiled a new one-year strategy to reduce the number of fatalities from drug overdoses.

Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say fatal drug overdoses nationwide surged roughly 20% during the pandemic, killing more than 83,000 people in 2020. A growing body of research suggests Black Americans have suffered the heavies

National

Drug Overdose Deaths Surge Among Black Americans During Pandemic

5:00am March 03, 2021

by Brian Mann

Black Americans with addiction face "pervasive and continuing systemic racism" and often struggle to gain access to treatments that prevent fatal overdoses.

Lights placed as a memorial to COVID-19 victims surround the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Jan. 19. Some economists believe deaths tied to alcohol use, drug use and suicides have risen during the pandemic as the isolation felt by many has taken an e

They Lost Sons To Drug Overdoses: How The Pandemic May Be Fueling Deaths Of Despair

11:43am January 26, 2021

by Scott Horsley

As drug overdose deaths rise during the pandemic, a former White House economist says social isolation could be partly to blame.

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