Category: naloxone

Fountain Valley Officials Applaud Naloxone Program at Area Schools

March 31, 2023
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A recently established drug program to prevent overdoses in schools and other local issues were discussed at the first Fountain Valley mayor’s breakfast of the year, held March 30 at Fountain Valley Regional Hospital in Orange County, California. The school program was first initiated last November, in which city services placed drug stations at schools…

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Orange County Homeless Deaths Nearly Quadruple Over Last Decade: Report

March 2, 2023
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Deaths in the homeless population have sky-rockered over the last decade in Orange County, California, primarily due to drug-related overdoses from fentanyl, according to a Feb. 27 report from county law enforcement. In light of increasing homeless deaths in the region, Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes last year created the county’s first committee to analyze…

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A Day in the Life: Southern California’s Fentanyl Crisis

January 9, 2023
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“I don’t even know if I will be alive tomorrow. I might OD tonight,” Pete—a pseudonym—told The Epoch Times. “You are talking to a drug user right now and that’s the name of the game.” The 34-year-old comedian has been using the opiate fentanyl since the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic and commonly checks in…

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Fentanyl Overdose Antidote Required at California Colleges Under New Law

January 9, 2023
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A new law went into effect in California Jan. 1, requiring public universities to provide opioid reversal medication instruction and education during campus orientation. The new rules come after Sentate Bill (SB) 367 was introduced last year by California State Sen. Melissa Hurtado (D-Bakersfield). The bill was signed into law in August. Public universities are…

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Orange County Funds Opioid Blockers for School Districts

December 21, 2022
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The Orange County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Dec. 20 to authorize funds for opioid blockers, such as Narcan, for Orange County school districts. Supervisor Don Wagner initiated the plan with an allocation of $120,000. Of the lump sum, $20,000 will go to each school district within his supervisorial 3rd district—encompassing Orange, Tustin, Villa Park,…

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Fentanyl Overdose Antidote Required at California K-12 Schools Under New Bill

December 12, 2022
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After several cases of student overdoses due to the synthetic opioid fentanyl, California lawmakers introduced a bill requiring naloxone—a nasal spray that reverses an opioid overdose—on K–12 school campuses. While schools are permitted to carry naloxone on campus, Assembly Bill 19—introduced Dec. 5 by newly-elected Assemblyman Joe Patterson (R-Rocklin)—would require schools to always have at…

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To America’s Permissive Addiction ‘Fix,’ Critics Just Say No

November 24, 2022
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After nine years as a homeless drug addict in Los Angeles, Jared Klickstein finally checked himself into a drug treatment center. Unlike the program he had gone to six years before, which had hot tubs, acupuncture, and trips to the beach, this one, in North Hollywood, was deadly serious about personal responsibility. Clients kept a…

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County Supervisors Approve Required Fentanyl Education, Narcan Distribution

October 11, 2022
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SAN DIEGO—The San Diego County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a proposal to require fentanyl awareness education in the county’s classrooms as well as distribute naloxone to parents and students and train them on how to use the medication. The proposal, sponsored by Supervisors Jim Desmond and Terra Lawson-Remer and District Attorney Summer Stephan, also…

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SD County Approves Required Fentanyl Education, Narcan Distribution

October 11, 2022
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SAN DIEGO—The San Diego County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a proposal to require fentanyl awareness education in the county’s classrooms as well as distribute naloxone to parents and students and train them on how to use the medication. The proposal, sponsored by Supervisors Jim Desmond and Terra Lawson-Remer and District Attorney Summer Stephan, also…

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California Lawmaker Attempts to Make Drug Overdose Antidote More Accessible

May 9, 2022
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Assembly Bill 1627 by Assemblyman James Ramos (D-Highland) would create a pilot program to teach participants—like mothers, fathers, and friends, for example—how to administer naloxone during an opioid overdose. “The loved ones of those who have fallen to fentanyl want to know we are doing all we can to end this plague,” Ramos said in…

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