An Allentown residential drug-treatment facility failed to prevent a resident’s overdose death, then tried to cover up its failures, a federal civil lawsuit alleges.
The grand opening event for the new recovery center at Tribeca Building 315 W. Linden St. was held Tuesday afternoon, by the Lehigh County Office of Drug and Alcohol, in partnership with St. Luke’s University Health Network and Treatment Trends.
Through a partnership, St. Luke’s will provide nasal spray naloxone to Lehigh Valley-based Treatment Trends to be distributed at the Allentown Health Bureau.
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During a roundtable discussion on opioids Thursday, Lehigh Valley medical experts told Sen. Pat Toomey that greater emphasis needs to be placed on battling addiction in general rather than blocking access to a specific drug.