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Overdose Vigil Draws 120 People in Shelter Island, New York
Opioid overdoses in North Carolina fell 27% through the first half of 2026, according to state Department of Health and Human Services data reported by WRAL on August 14. Between January and June, emergency departments recorded 2,031 opioid overdoses statewide, more than 700 fewer than the same period a year earlier. In the same month, …
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Kentucky Hospitals Log 2,000 Peer Contacts in Opioid Recovery
Kentucky recorded 1,110 overdose deaths in 2025. That is a fourth consecutive annual decline and a drop of nearly 23% in a single year, and it is still more than a thousand people. Both facts matter for anyone tracking opioid addiction in the state, because the programs behind the decline are the ones now being …
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Rextovy Becomes Third Over the Counter Naloxone Nasal Spray
Anyone who keeps over the counter naloxone in a bag, a glovebox, or a kitchen drawer has a third option as of this summer. The Food and Drug Administration has approved Rextovy, a 4 milligram naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray, for nonprescription sale. It is approved for the emergency treatment of known or suspected opioid overdose …
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Wyoming Stores Clear 7-OH Kratom Products Under New Bans
People who have been using concentrated kratom extracts to manage pain, withdrawal, or opioid addiction are finding the shelves empty in Casper, Wyoming. Vape stores and other outlets have mostly sold off products containing over-threshold amounts of 7-hydroxymitragynine, known as 7-OH, after a new state law took effect and a temporary federal scheduling order approached. …
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Nearly 40% of Colorado Jails Post No Opioid Treatment Policy
Colorado told its county jails four years ago to provide medications for opioid use disorder and to publish their policies for doing it. A review of all 46 county jails in the state found that nearly 40 percent still have no publicly available policy explaining how they deliver opioid addiction treatment. The study, from researchers …
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Review Finds No Single Fix for Opioid Addiction Crisis
Overdose deaths in the United States fell sharply in 2024, and researchers are still working out why. A peer-reviewed analysis published in June offers a careful answer that matters for anyone navigating opioid addiction treatment right now. It concludes that no single intervention explains the decline, and no single intervention sustains recovery either. The narrative …
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Expert Panel Urges Opioid Addiction Treatment in Hospitals
A hospital stay may be one of the most underused openings in opioid addiction care. A panel of 42 clinicians has now reached consensus that hospitals should begin medications for opioid use disorder while a patient is still admitted rather than waiting until discharge. The consensus was published in JAMA Network Open and reported by …
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Opioid Prescribing Limits Leave Chronic Pain Patients Behind
Opioid addiction policy in this country now carries two outcomes at once, and a new investigation from WDBJ7 in Roanoke, Virginia, sits in the space between them. Prescription opioid overdose deaths fell after the federal government tightened prescribing. Millions of people with chronic pain conditions now have difficulty getting medication they had relied on for …
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Fentanyl Seizures Climb in Colorado as Overdose Deaths Rise
Federal agents have seized 3.2 million fentanyl pills across the DEA’s Rocky Mountain Division so far this year, including 500,000 pills in a single Western Slope operation in May. For people using fentanyl in Colorado, or supporting someone who is, the supply picture has not eased the way the national numbers suggest. Eric Neal, assistant …
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Kentucky Overdose Deaths Fell 22.9% to Lowest Level Since 2014
Kentucky recorded 1,110 drug overdose deaths in 2025, a 22.9 percent decrease from the previous year and the lowest annual total in the state since 2014. For people living with opioid addiction and the families around them, the more useful detail sits underneath the headline number, which is what changed in the drug supply and …
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