Amid rise in overdose deaths, advocates look for answers
and last updated 2021-05-28 13:26:28-04
Addiction is suffocating. It has strangled countless lives and ended so many others. For me, it started with the pills and once you get cut off, youâre already hooked,â described Jennifer Foote, who found herself addicted to drugs. âAnd you have nowhere to turn to for your withdrawals, so I went and turned to heroin.
For Jason Doss, he lost four people he knew to drug overdoses.
âItâs my sinking thinking that gets me back out here, Doss said.
He feels addictionâs strength in the worst ways.
Amid rise in overdose deaths, advocates look for answers
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Ohio s plan to distribute anti-OD drug triggers questions, claims of racial bias
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Ohio is launching a targeted deployment of naloxone, sending 60,000 doses of the antidote for an opioid overdose to 23 counties. The idea is to get ahead of a usual summertime rise in overdoses. Yet one of its partners in distributing the naloxone questions the equity of the plan, calling it racially biased.
Harm Reduction Ohio says the state’s plan excludes some areas that have high overdose death rates for Black Ohioans, including parts of Cincinnati and Columbus. It also charges the plan gives an insufficient amount of the drug to rural areas.
The heart of the problem: The two sides use different ways to measure the impact of overdoses.
Ohio s plan to distribute an anti-OD drug triggers questions, claims of racial bias Terry DeMio, Cincinnati Enquirer
Ohio is launching a targeted deployment of naloxone, sending 60,000 doses of the antidote for an opioid overdose to 23 counties. The idea is to get ahead of a usual summertime rise in overdoses. Yet one of its partners in distributing the naloxone questions the equity of the plan, calling it racially biased.
Harm Reduction Ohio says the state’s plan excludes some areas that have high overdose death rates for Black Ohioans, including parts of Cincinnati and Columbus. It also charges the plan gives an insufficient amount of the drug to rural areas.