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GUMC, O’Neill Institute Host Naloxone Training in Honor of International Overdose Awareness Day

GUMC, O’Neill Institute Host Naloxone Training in Honor of International Overdose Awareness Day

By Allie Stevens September 8, 2023

The Addiction and Public Policy Initiative at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and the HoyaDOPE Project at the Georgetown University School of Medicine, a student group dedicated...

DC Implements Harm Reduction Vending Machines

DC Implements Harm Reduction Vending Machines

By Georgia Russello April 21, 2023

Two Washington, D.C. government organizations announced a pilot project featuring vending machines that provide safety products like Naloxone (Narcan), an opioid overdose reversal drug, throughout the...

FILE PHOTO: KIRK ZIESER/THE HOYA | The “LIVE. LONG. DC” initiative, which aims to cut opioid related deaths in Washington, D.C., in half by 2020, includes detailed procedures for the distribution of naloxone kits.

DC Police Officers to Carry Treatment for Opioid Overdoses

By Afua Nyantakyi April 2, 2019

Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) plans to distribute 76,000 kits of naloxone, a drug used to counter opioid overdoses, to police officers and community health organizations by Sept. 30. The...

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Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) announced a new initiative to reduce opioid overdose-related deaths in Washington, D.C.

Bowser Announces Initiative to Reduce Opioid Overdoses

By Meredith Miller January 18, 2019

A Washington, D.C. initiative, LIVE.LONG.DC., aims to reduce District opioid overdoses by 50 percent by 2020, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) announced. Opioid overdoses are at a record high in D.C., which...

PIXABAY Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) proposed emergency legislation to prohibit chemical compounds found in synthetic drugs after a recent upsurge in overdoses of K2, a strain of synthetic marijuana, in Washington, D.C.

Spike in Synthetic Marijuana Overdoses Prompts Emergency Legislation

By Elizabeth Douglas October 2, 2018

Following a dramatic uptick in reported overdoses of K2, a strain of synthetic marijuana, since mid-July, Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) introduced emergency legislation to widen the scope of what constitutes...

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