Your Voice Ohio - Exploring Harm Reduction: Overdose Education & Community Naloxone Distribution

Exploring Harm Reduction: Overdose Education & Community Naloxone Distribution As part of our ongoing research on harm reduction strategies, we took a look at Naloxone, a medication designed to reverse overdoses caused by an opioid drug. Naloxone works by ejecting heroin and other opioids from receptors in the brain, reversing the respiratory depression caused by an overdose. It is FDA approved for emergency treatment of known or suspected opioid overdose, has no effect in people who are not taking opioids, and has no potential of abuse. This particular solution may not prevent overdoses from occurring, but it does prevent fatal overdoses, giving people a second chance. Continue Reading

Central Ohio companies look for roles in response to opioid crisis The Columbus Dispatch Drug addiction is causing loved ones to suffer. This group is trying to help. Journal-News Herbal supplement kratom contains opioids, regulators say Akron Beacon Journal How Much Is the Opioid Crisis Costing Governments? Governing New funding for opioids, community health centers in budget deal Morrow County Sentinel County Farm Bureaus in Ohio putting opioid crisis in focus Ohio's Country Journal Amid drug crisis, Ohio hoping for action on Trump’s words Akron Beacon Journal Alabama sues OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma over opioid epidemic Reuters Faces of the Opioid Epidemic: Ohio Valley man fights to stay clean WTRF Opinion: The opioid crisis — this generation’s Vietnam?  The News-Herald Closing gap between overdose and treatment in Hamilton County to stem relapses, deaths Cincinnati.com Born Addicted: Number of babies born drug-dependent sky-rocketing in Central Ohio ABC 6 Columbus

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