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Alabama Data System Targets Opioid Abuse
By 2016, Alabama had the highest number of opioid prescriptions per capita in the nation, fueling rising rates of opioid abuse and fatal overdoses. The number of fatal overdoses was continuing to escalate. To address the growing opioid addiction crisis, Governor Kay Ivey established a data committee. Why data? Why not establish more treatment programs? …
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Synthetic Opioids Found in Vapes and THC Products
Lucas Trautman, director of Oxford Treatment Center’s veterans’ program, recently discussed his experiences working on the front lines of the evolving opioid epidemic. Opioid exposure has not required a bag or a needle to be potentially fatal. Comparatively harmless products like THC oils, vape cartridges and other accessible products have been found to be laced …
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Fentanyl Test Kits Distributed Across Chicago’s West Side
In the midst of an ongoing drug crisis, Chicago outreach workers are handing out fentanyl detection kits to prevent accidental opioid overdoses. The move comes in the wake of an alarming trend: the lacing of street drugs such as heroin and cocaine with the most potent and frequently fatal opioid, fentanyl. Fentanyl Test Strips and …
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Crisis Training Helps Cut Opioid Overdoses in West Virginia
An innovative but little known crisis intervention project in West Virginia is helping reduce opioid overdose deaths, addiction experts say. It’s also setting a new standard for how communities respond to opioid addiction and mental health crises across the U.S. Addressing West Virginia’s Opioid Overdose Crisis Since the fall of 2023, opioid overdoses have been …
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Illinois Law Mandates Narcan in Public Libraries
A new state law that came into effect on January 1st, 2026 requires all public libraries in Illinois to stock Narcan or similar medications that can reverse opioid overdoses caused by drugs like heroin or fentanyl. This law also allows library staff who are trained to administer these drugs to assist victims in the event …
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Tennessee Fentanyl Crisis Puts Children at Risk
Tennessee’s fentanyl crisis continues to claim lives and experts say that, increasingly, the synthetic opioid’s newest victims are children. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid up to 50 times stronger than heroin and is often unknowingly ingested, increasing overdose risks for both adults and children. Fentanyl’s Impact on Tennessee’s Most Vulnerable Fentanyl continues to drive the …
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Georgia Expands Narcan Access in Public Schools
A new statewide initiative is providing Georgia public schools with naloxone (Narcan), the opioid overdose reversal medication. The kits will go out to over 2,300 schools across the state as Georgia continues to respond to the ongoing opioid epidemic and rising overdose risks tied to fentanyl exposure. Georgia’s Continuing Opioid Crisis The recent initiative is …
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Massachusetts Innovates Opioid Treatment in Primary Care
Since 2007, Massachusetts has provided a national model for its integrated approach to opioid treatment in the primary care setting. Using a nurse care model (NCM), healthcare providers receive funds to improve access and coordinate care. This is done through a dedicated nursing staff. The NCM model means physician assistants, nurse practitioners and doctors can …
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Study Highlights Lasting Impact of Parental Opioid Abuse
The opioid epidemic isn’t just claiming lives and shattering relationships among adults and families. The scourge of parental opioid abuse is also creating generational trauma among children growing up in a household impacted by substance abuse. You’ve heard the statistics: Opioid addiction is killing thousands of Americans each year. In 2023, more than 79,000 adults …
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Opioid Addiction in College Students Rising, Study Finds
A recent study from Pennsylvania State University reveals the significant risk college students face from opioids. Undergraduate researchers at the Lehigh Valley campus found that nearly a third of the campus’s students know of someone who’d suffered an opioid overdose. This study serves as yet another reminder of the stark reality that the average student …
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