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The good news is that as the Obama administration and numerous states tackle the ongoing opiate epidemic, an essential drug for treating opioid overdose when it happens is now being made far more available than it was a few years ago. Naloxone used to be a fixture only in emergency rooms, but is now being made more widely available to first responders like paramedics and police officers.
For decades, naloxone was only available by prescription or through emergency medical technicians at the time of an overdose. But some state and local governments have taken steps to make the reversal drug more accessible. Many law enforcement agencies are training the police to administer the drug; as of July 2015, officers in 28 states carried naloxone to reverse an overdose if they reached the scene before paramedics did. […]Since 2014, dozens of states have passed laws that allow Narcan to be bought directly from pharmacists without a doctor’s visit. Other states allow third-party prescriptions, meaning friends or family members of users […]
An abandoned bumper car in Pirpyat
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PRIPYAT, Ukraine
Before the fire, the vomiting, the deaths and the vanishing home, it was the promise of bumper cars that captured the imagination of the boys.
It will be 30 years ago Tuesday that Pripyat and the nearby Chernobyl nuclear plant became synonymous with nuclear disaster, that the word Chernobyl came to mean more than just a little village in rural Ukraine, and this place became more than just another spot in the shadowy Soviet Union.
Even 30 years later – 25 years after the country that built it ceased to exist – the full damage of that day is still argued.
Death toll estimates run from hundreds to millions. The area near […]
Investigators at one of multiple homes where a total of eight family members were shot and killed on Friday, April 22, 2016, in Peebles, Ohio.
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PEEBLES, Ohio —A four-day-old newborn, a six-month-old baby and a three-year-old child survived aseries of shootings that left eight members of the same family dead in four southern Ohio homes, officials said at a press conference Friday.
All of the victims had been shot in the head in execution-style killings, some while in their beds, according to Ohio attorney general Mike DeWine. None of them had committed suicide, according to DeWine, and authorities cautioned that there may be a shooter or shooters on the loose who should be considered armed and “extremely dangerous.”
All of the victims were adults except for one 16-year-old boy, according to Pike County sheriff Charles Reader and DeWine.
Reader described […]
Wayne Anthony Hawes, 50, is seen in an undated picture released by the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office in Appling, Georgia.
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A Georgia man shot dead three people and is suspected of killing two others in a shooting spree involving his wife’s family before killing himself, officials said on Saturday.
Wayne Anthony Hawes, 50, was found dead shortly after midnight at his home in Appling, about 130 miles (210 km) east of Atlanta, the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
He also tried unsuccessfully to set his home […]
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