Deaths from heroin have more than doubled within the past five years. All across the United States, towns are being hit increasingly hard with unprecedented levels of overdoses. The heroin epidemic is unlike anything people have seen. Cincinnati was hit especially hard over the past month, with the county seeing a massive 200 overdoses in...
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Weekly Addiction News Roundup: September 1st 2016
Suraj Krishna, a mechanical and aerospace engineer major, has been spending his weekend nights driving his peers around to ensure they won’t drink and drive. Top 5 Addiction News Stories for the Week of September 1st, 2016 “I was the only person who kept my word when I said I drove all night, I drove...
Addiction Q&A: What Is Fentanyl And How Can We Identify It?
Whether or not you have been keeping up with current events lately, you may have heard about something called fentanyl. Maybe you’ve seen it time and again on your Facebook feed and just haven’t had the time to investigate further or maybe it’s something you did a quick speed read through before you headed to work...
What Is Fentanyl and How Dangerous Is It?
A new drug has made the headlines recently when it was announced that Prince died due to an overdose of Fentanyl. Everyone is talking about it but, really, what is Fentanyl and what makes it so dangerous? What Exactly is Fentanyl? Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that has a rapid onset and a...