ALERT ISSUED – Severe Pulmonary Disease Hospitalizing People Who Vape
GREEN CROSS STRONG news - Trenton, NJ: The New Jersey State Health Department reports - There have been reports from multiple states of patients who have been hospitalized with acute severe pulmonary disease associated with vaping ( use of e-cigarette devices to aerosolize substances for inhalation). Patients presented with respiratory symptoms including cough, shortness of breath, and fatigue. Symptoms worsened over a period of days…
INDUSTRIAL OPIOID DISASTER – Boston City Buildings to Stock Opioid Overdose Life Saving Reversal Drug Narcan
Mayor Marty Walsh reports – Increasing access to naloxone has been a core strategy in the City’s approach to countering the opioid epidemic. Municipal buildings in Boston will now be equipped with opioid overdose reversal kits to help anyone in need. ----------- BOSTON STRONG news – Office of the Mayor reports – Naloxone donation will further enhance the City’s overdose prevention efforts. BOSTON – Saturday, July…
“The excuse that ‘I am simply dealing this drug to support my own habit because I can’t get into treatment or have to wait to get into treatment and I simply need to sell this drug so I don’t get sick …’ is not valid,” Thomas Anderson VT Public Safety Comm
Green Cross Strong news - VT Digger .org reports - Brattleboro, VT: BRATTLEBORO — Local Police Chief Michael Fitzgerald stood by listening as Vermont Public Safety Commissioner Thomas Anderson read the proverbial riot act to drug dealers who’ve pushed this southeastern town’s opioid overdose numbers to the highest in the state. ... Share More:
76 billion opioid pills: Newly released federal data unmasks the epidemic
GREEN CROSS STRONG news - The Washington Post Scott Higham ,Sari Horwitz and Steven Rich reports - Washington, DC: America’s largest drug companies saturated the country with 76 billion oxycodone and hydrocodone pain pills from 2006 through 2012 as the nation’s deadliest drug epidemic spun out of control, according Share More: Just six companies distributed 75 percent of the pills during this period: McKesson Corp., Walgreens, Cardinal…
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, Sinaloa Cartel Leader, Sentenced to Life in Prison Plus 30 Years
US STRONG news - DOJustice United States reports – Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera, known by various aliases, including “El Chapo” and “El Rapido,” was sentenced today by District Judge Brian M. Cogan to a life term of imprisonment plus 30 years to run consecutive to the life sentence for being a principal leader of a continuing criminal enterprise – the Mexican organized crime syndicate known…
Justice Department Announces Results in Fight Against the Opioid Crisis At One Year Mark of Operation S.O.S.
GREEN CROSS STRONG news - DOJustice United States reports - One year ago, the Justice Department announced the formation of Operation Synthetic Opioid Surge (), a program designed to reduce the supply of deadly synthetic opioids in high impact areas as well as identifying wholesale distribution networks and international and domestic suppliers. Over the past year, 10 districts with some of the highest drug…
Governor Murphy Signs Legislation to Dramatically Reform New Jersey’s Medical Marijuana Program, Expand Patient Access
STATEHOUSE .NEWS - Office of the Gov reports FREEHOLD – Governor Phil Murphy today signed the Jake Honig Compassionate Use Medical Cannabis Act to dramatically reform New Jersey’s Medicinal Marijuana Program (MMP) and expand patient access to medical marijuana. “Today’s legislation creates a medical marijuana program that is modernized, compassionate, progressive, and meets the needs of patients,” said Governor ;“I am proud to stand with my legislative…
How to Deploy Opioid Overdose Life Saving Reversal Drug Narcan
Green Cross Strong news - Hamilton, NJ: Watch Video about life saving Narcan for use with opioid overdose victims: Walgreen’s Pharmacist Chirag Patel Narcan deployment lesson.
Community Narcan Training Extends Our Life-Saving Capacity
GREEN CROSS STRONG NEWS - Boston Medical Center Alison Merrill reports - Boston, MA: Originally patented in 1961 by scientists searching for a treatment for constipation caused by chronic opioid use, naloxone quickly began being used for a markedly different purpose — as the premier antidote to opioid overdose. But it wasn’t until the last decade, as the opioid crisis snowballed into an epidemic of…
Industrial Opioid Disaster – Insys inc files for bankruptcy
On June 10, 2019, Bloomberg reported that Insys had filed for bankruptcy following lawsuits related to its opioid-based drug Subsys.
GREEN CROSS STRONG News INNOVATION – 8 Finalists Announced in $1.55M Challenge for New Solutions to Detect Opioids in International Mail
The White House reports - Washington, DC: Today, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate(S&T), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and the Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) announced eight finalists in the first stage of the Opioid Detection Challenge, which is a $ million global prize competition for rapid, nonintrusive detection tools that will help find…