Qualifying organizations can now apply to receive free over-the-counter Narcan, an opioid reversal drug, from the state. First responders, community organizations, schools, hospitals and local governments are among those eligible to apply for a 4-milligram dose of Naloxone nasal spray, bought at a lower market price, according to a news release from Gov. Gavin Newsom. […]
May 24—Two people face child endangerment charges after a 4-year-old in their care had to be revived with CPR and Narcan. Chad Bolinger and Danielle McLaughlin of St. Joseph each were charged this week with Class A misdemeanors of second-degree endangering the welfare of a child stemming from an incident in February. Police and emergency […]
A scream heard from the bathroom of an Alaska Airlines flight came from a man who federal prosecutors said became violent once a nurse tried to help — leading to a bloody and chaotic scene. Now, the man, a 38-year-old Minnesota resident, has been sentenced to five years of probation for assaulting a flight attendant […]
The New York Post’s headline writers didn’t hold back: “Woke NYC bookstore that lured strung-out junkies with freebies faces possible eviction”. The tabloid reported that the landlord of the Bluestockings Cooperative bookstore on New York’s Lower East Side was threatening eviction unless the store stopped operating as a “medical facility”. Bluestockings is a historic trans- […]
Jan. 13—Free Narcan is available outside the Moscow Food Co-op as part of Latah Recovery Center’s effort to keep people safe from opioid overdoses. Darrell Keim, executive director of the Latah Recovery Center in Moscow, said the medication that reduces the effects of opioids is available to anyone who needs it. A box of Narcan […]
Jan. 11—OLYMPIA — Lucas Daniel Trujillo-Petty, of Tacoma, was only 16 when he died of fentanyl poisoning on Oct. 31, 2022. His mother wept as she testified Thursday to a state government education committee in Olympia, urging lawmakers to pass a law requiring high schools in Washington to stock Narcan, an opioid antidote. “Fentanyl is […]
As a high school student, UCLA senior Maddie Ward knew fellow students who overdosed on fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid. At the time, she didn’t know what the drug was, but the tragic incidents inspired her to learn about how she could respond to overdoses. While at college, an organization called End Overdose came to […]