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'Euphoria' star Angus Cloud accidentally overdosed on meth, cocaine and fentanyl

Cloud, 25, who starred as a drug dealer on the HBO series, died of "acute intoxication," a California coroner's office said. His family has said he'd been struggling with the death of his father.

September 22, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
narcan spray

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  • Health

As overdose deaths rise, Georgia public health officials ship narcan kits, fentanyl tests in hotels

At one Macon hotel, more than 375 emergency calls reporting a suspected drug overdose were made between December 2017 and May 2022, according to a lawsuit Bibb County filed against hotel owners in May 2022.

March 29, 2023
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By:
  • Laura Corley
A team of volunteers with an Ohio-based nonprofit handed out 2,500 doses of a nasal spray version of naloxone, an overdose reversal drug, at this year's Bonnaroo music festival.

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  • Health

Overdose reversal drugs gain support at music festivals, but not fentanyl test strips

Festival promoters are allowing lifesaving medication as fentanyl deaths surge, but volunteers are often left to distribute it, and more controversial forms of harm reduction aren't openly allowed.

August 03, 2022
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  • Blake Farmer
Mac Miller performs an NPR Tiny Desk Concert on Aug. 1, 2018.

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A dealer is sentenced to 17.5 years for his role in Mac Miller's fatal overdose

Stephen Walter was sentenced on Monday. He is one of three men indicted in connection with supplying the fentanyl-laced pills that contributed to the rapper's accidental overdose in 2018.

May 17, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
West Point cadets walk on campus at the United States Military Academy in West Point, N.Y.

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  • National

One person was arrested after West Point cadets on spring break overdosed on fentanyl

Wilton Manors police have arrested one person related to an incident earlier this week involving six males overdosing on fentanyl. Cadets from the West Point military academy were involved.

March 12, 2022
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
A man gets care in an ambulance after overdosing in San Francisco, California.

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  • National

San Francisco's new rapid response teams race to save lives as ODs dramatically rise

The city's per capita overdose death rate is among the highest in the U.S. To help address the crisis, city officials launched Street Overdose Response Teams, part of a broader public health effort.

November 03, 2021
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  • Eric Westervelt
Fentanyl

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  • Health

Bootleg Fentanyl Leads To Spike In Overdoses

Georgia’s Department of Public Health has issued a warning about a cluster of overdoses from counterfeit pills that contain fentanyl, a potent opioid drug.

April 09, 2021
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  • Andy Miller
Regina LaBelle is the acting director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. During a Thursday morning briefing, LaBelle said drug overdose deaths are up about 27% compared to the previous year.

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  • National

White House Says Drug Overdose Deaths Spiked To 88,000 During The Pandemic

The Biden administration points to fentanyl as the major culprit for the increase in deaths. Officials unveiled a new one-year strategy to reduce the number of fatalities from drug overdoses.

April 01, 2021
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  • Brian Mann
Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say fatal drug overdoses nationwide surged roughly 20% during the pandemic, killing more than 83,000 people in 2020. A growing body of research suggests Black Americans have suffered the heaviest toll.

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  • National

Drug Overdose Deaths Surge Among Black Americans During Pandemic

Black Americans with addiction face "pervasive and continuing systemic racism" and often struggle to gain access to treatments that prevent fatal overdoses.

March 04, 2021
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  • Brian Mann
Lights placed as a memorial to COVID-19 victims surround the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Jan. 19. Some economists believe deaths tied to alcohol use, drug use and suicides have risen during the pandemic as the isolation felt by many has taken an emotional toll.

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  • Health

They Lost Sons To Drug Overdoses: How The Pandemic May Be Fueling Deaths Of Despair

As drug overdose deaths rise during the pandemic, a former White House economist says social isolation could be partly to blame.

January 26, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Horsley
A statue of an angel in a graveyard

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  • Health

CDC Reports Highest Number Of Drug Overdose Deaths Ever In A Year

More than 81,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States in the 12 months ending in May 2020, the highest number of overdose deaths ever recorded in a 12-month period, according to recent provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

December 30, 2020
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge

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  • Politics

Experts Say Attack On Hunter Biden's Addiction Deepens Stigma For Millions

President Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. called Biden "a crackhead." Researchers say that kind of humiliation puts many Americans with addiction at risk. Most people never get help because of shame.

October 16, 2020
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By:
  • Brian Mann
A demonstration on administering Narcan nasal spray.

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  • Health

Overdoses Are Surging, Check In On Your Friends And Family, Experts Say

Social distancing and quarantining may help slow the spread of COVID-19, but the isolation is hurting those with opioid use disorder, addiction experts...

July 06, 2020
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  • Ellen Eldridge
Georgia's drug surveillance team said in a June 19 memo that emergency room visits for suspected drug overdose are increasing.

Increase In Suspected Drug Overdoses In Georgia Amid COVID-19

Emergency rooms across Georgia are seeing more suspected drug overdoses, raising concerns the state is beginning to see an exacerbated epidemic emerge...

June 26, 2020
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Dr. Bhargav Mistry (right), a transplant surgeon for Sanford Health, prepares Sgt. Francisco Raatz's healthy kidney for transplant into his battle buddy, Spc. John Chase, on Sept. 27, 2011, at Sanford Health in Fargo, N.D.

Overdose Victims Are Donors Of 1 In 8 Transplanted Organs

A new study from Johns Hopkins University finds that 1 in 8 organ transplants in the United States involves organs from someone who died of a drug...

May 02, 2018
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  • Maura Currie and
  • Adam Ragusea
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