Ed Baker: Open letter of support for overdose prevention centers in Vermont vtdigger.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from vtdigger.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Ed Baker: An act relating to reducing overdoses has laid the foundation vtdigger.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from vtdigger.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Had this bill, H.728, not been vetoed, we in Vermont would be prepared today to act decisively and innovatively to respond to our fellow Vermonters at imminent risk of overdose death,
$3 million is lying idly, while one of the most immediate and efficacious interventions to save the lives of people with severe drug use disorder is stalled because of political bias.
State officials recently flagged the presence of an anti-seizure medication in some opioid deaths in 2022, a year when a record-breaking 237 Vermonters died from accidental opioid overdoses.Thirty-one of the fatalities, or 13% of the total, had taken.