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Please join the Chelmsford Health Department’s Candlelight Vigil for Substance Use Disorder Awareness. This event will take place on Saturday, September 16 at the Chelmsford Center Town Common (4 North Road, Chelmsford, MA). at 6:30pm, we invite you to sign the name of lost loved ones to substance use disorder…
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In honor of International Overdose Awareness Day, the Recovery Cafe in Lowell will be hosting a celebration that will include food, music, games, Narcan training, a moment of silence with a butterfly release, and so much more! For more information, please call the Recovery Cafe at 978-677-6087 or email info@recoverycafelowell.org.
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May 9 commemorates the second annual Fentanyl Awareness Day – a day to remember those we have lost to fentanyl overdoses and to raise awareness about the dangers of this highly potent synthetic opioid. We know Nationally that fentanyl is driving the increase in overdose deaths. Fentanyl is involved…
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Xylazine (aka “Tranq”) is on the rise as a contaminant in substances. In April, 2023, the Biden-Harris Administration designates Fentanyl combined with Xylazine as an Emerging Threat to the United States. Xylazine is a non-opioid tranquilizer approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for veterinary use but not human…
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The conventional therapy for opioid overdose is naloxone, a drug that quickly reverses the symptoms of an overdose. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Narcan (a brand of Naloxone), 4 milligram (mg) naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray for over-the-counter (OTC), nonprescription, use. This decision opens the door for the…
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Deaths due to drug overdose have topped a million for the first time since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began collecting data on the problem more than two decades ago. A study released Thursday by the National Center for Health Statistics, a division of the CDC, found that…
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SAMHSA ADVISORY: Prescription Stimulant Misuse Among Youth and Young Adults The misuse of prescription pain relievers, tranquilizers, sedatives, and stimulants among youth and young adults aged 12 to 25 is a major public health issue in the United States. The prevalence of prescription drug misuse is highest among young adults…
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Numerous research studies confirm the link between traumatic experiences in childhood and addictive behaviors in adulthood. One of the most notable is the original study of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) by Felitti and colleagues (1998). ACEs included traumatic experiences within the first 18 years of life such as physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, neglect, loss of a…
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Back in 1998, medical doctors Vincent Felitti and Robert Anda found that 10 adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) independently predicted a wide range of psychological and medical disorders in adulthood in a stepwise fashion. That is, the more ACEs people experienced prior to age 18, the more likely they were to have poor…
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Deaths caused by fentanyl continue to plague the younger segment of the population. As of last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a minimum of 70,000 deaths over one year could be attributed to synthetic opioid overdoses, including thousands of teenagers and young adults. The Drug Enforcement…
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