John Freyer with the Free Naloxone Bike (Photo by Steven Casanova)
Itâs hard to miss John Freyer as he rides through the city on a teal electric-assist bicycle. His destination? Teaching Richmonders how to save lives.
On the front of his bike, inside a wooden crate, are dozens of boxes of Narcan, a brand of naloxone, a lifesaving opioid reversal medication that can be easily administered as a nasal spray.
Freyer, an associate professor of cross-disciplinary media at VCU Arts, gives out the Narcan and demonstrates how to administer it properly on a CPR mannequin that he places on a board attached to the back of his bike.
Updated Feb 20, 2021 | 21:27 IST
A 51-year-old hosiery trader died due to suspected drug overdose at a hotel in Punjab s Ludhiana, following which police detained an NRI under the charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. NRI arrested in Punjab [Representative image] | Photo Credit: iStock Images
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The now-deceased hosiery trader came in contact with the Non-resident Indian (NRI) through social media, police said.
Late Tuesday, the two checked into a hotel in Bahadur House, where they allegedly consumed drugs.
Police have recovered some cigarettes and syringes from the hotel room.
Ludhiana: A Non-resident Indian (NRI) was booked and arrested for culpable homicide not amounting to murder after a 51-year-old man died due to suspected drug overdose inside the room of a hotel in Punjab’s Ludhiana.
Thursday, 18 Feb 2021 07:59 AM MYT
Singer and actress Demi Lovato arrives at the 2017 American Music Awards in Los Angeles, California, November 19, 2017. Reuters pic
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LOS ANGELES, Feb 18 Pop star Demi Lovato said she had three strokes and a heart attack when she was hospitalised for a drug overdose in 2018, and was also left with some brain damage.
Lovato, 28, was promoting a new documentary yesterday that she said would give full details of the widely-publicised overdose that almost killed her.
“I had three strokes. I had a heart attack. My doctors said that I had five to 10 more minutes,” she said, in an excerpt of the
Demi Lovato reveals she has brain damage from 2018 drug overdose
Demi Lovato says she does not drive a car because she has blind spots on her vision.
February 18, 2021 08:30 GMT
Demi Lovato got candid about her struggles with drug abuse and her near-fatal overdose in 2018 that left her with brain damage in the trailer for her documentary Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil released on Wednesday.
The singer sets the record straight about her hospital ordeal after she overdosed following six years of sobriety. She said the doctors thought that she was not going to make it out alive. They gave her five to ten more minutes to pull through.
By Li Cohen
February 18, 2021 / 7:14 AM / CBS News
Demi Lovato is opening up about the grim and painful realities of suffering from addiction and mental health conditions. In a trailer for her new YouTube docu-series, released Wednesday, Lovato revealed that the overdose she experienced in 2018 caused her to have three strokes and a heart attack. I ve had so much to say over the past two years wanting to set the record straight about what it was that happened, the actress and singer said at the beginning of the trailer.
The four-part documentary, Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil, focuses on Lovato s personal and professional life leading up to and after the overdose she experienced in July 2018.