If you or someone you know has had a friend or family
member drug overdose, here is what you should know about the life insurance coverage of that person.
Not exact matches
The
members of the Pacific Coast Collaborative met in Vancouver on Friday to mark its 10th anniversary and agreed to add
drug overdoses and trade to the list of issues considered vital to the four jurisdictions.
Community
members were given free Naloxone kits, as well as instructions on how to properly administer the life - saving
drug that reverses the effects of opioid
overdose.
As local leaders and surviving family
members marked International
Overdose Awareness Day with a candlelight vigil Thursday evening at the LaSalle Park bandshell, Erie County leaders discussed how efforts to fight the
drug epidemic have progressed and what yet has to be done.
They include ways to make it easier for first responders and family
members of addicts to get access to the antidote
drug naloxone, that can counteract a potentially fatal
overdose.
In countless cases, family
members and friends — often other people using
drugs — have reported using naloxone to save an
overdose victim, and the idea is that if more people have naloxone on hand, more people could be saved.
He just lost a family
member to a heroine
overdose, so he wants to stop the flow of
drugs in his neighborhood.
By age 27, 5 of the 158
members of their original cohort had died: 2 by suicide, 1 in a car accident, and 1 from a
drug overdose.23 Our longitudinal, population - based study confirms that childhood ADHD is associated with significantly increased risk for early death from suicide.