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New initiative aims to increase naloxone use in Black community
A new campaign recently launched to increase awareness of and access to naloxone – the opioid overdose reversal drug – in ...
A New Study Adds to the Evidence That Drug Busts Result in More Overdose Deaths
The researchers found that drug seizures in San Francisco were associated with a substantial increase in fatal opioid ...
Atlanta Daily World3d
Preventing overdose deaths in Black communities
Narcan is a prescription medication that is used to treat an opioid overdose. (Shevry Lassiter/The Washington Informer) by Tracie Gardner and Daliah Heller (Trice Edney News Wire)–On Dec. 8, the air ...
The Bay State Banner8d
A Black woman seeks to prevail and help others after her loss
Internalizing the blame is too isolating, which is why I am constantly seeking to draw strength from other Black mothers confronting this horrible ordeal. I grew up in a middle-class family in a ...
The Philadelphia Tribune13d
Less drugs, alcohol abuse when Black students attend HBCUs, study reveals
African American students who attend historically Black colleges and universities, or HBCUs, are less likely to use drugs and ...
Lynnwood Times7d
Youth Empowerment Conference: Violence & Drugs Can’t Live Here!
The Snohomish County Black Heritage Committee hosted the Youth Empowerment for Safer Communities Conference on March 15.