Posts tagged with Opioids

Last Updated: Feb. 20, 2017 · 3:55 p.m.

Pennsylvania’s highest court says drug use during pregnancy doesn’t meet the legal definition of child abuse

When kids become orphans due to opioids, their grandparents become parents again — but without resoures

After drug deaths increased three fold, Beaver County is starting to see those numbers drop

Injectable naloxone, the so-called overdose antidote, is pictured.

A Pittsburgh nonprofit is creating over-the-counter naloxone with help from OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma

"As the opioid crisis unfolded, the cost of naloxone substantially increased," the CEO of Harm Reduction Therapeutics said.

A team at the 2017 Code4PA event

Want to help tackle the opioid crisis? Share your expertise at Code4PA

No, you don't have to be a coder to participate.

Today is Overdose Awareness Day in Pennsylvania

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State prisons will remain on lockdown indefinitely, officials say

How the FBI in Pittsburgh is cracking down on fentanyl coming through the mail

Study finds opioid deaths are underreported

Pa. leaders are trying to figure out how to help infants affected by drugs

Overdose deaths peaked at the end of 2016 and have steadily dropped since then, per the Allegheny County medical examiner

Per a University of Virginia economist, opioid deaths in Pa. are likely more than double the reported number

One family’s story of opioid addiction told through the eyes of an eight-year-old girl

How to participate in ‘Pittsburgh Won’t Forget U’ on May 20 to remember those who’ve died from opioid overdose

Allegheny and Westmoreland counties saw a drop in opioid prescriptions in the past year

Does Gov. Wolf’s opioid disaster declaration go far enough?

The opioid crisis has been officially declared a disaster in Pennsylvania

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UPMC hospitals take a new approach to opioid overdoses, ushering people straight from the ER into treatment

New Kensington Sheetz adds dark blue lights to bathrooms to deter IV drug use. Not everyone’s convinced it will work.

Families publish honest obits of those with opioid addiction to say what they didn’t before.