Addressing the Opioid Carnage
April 17, 2019
Rutland EMT Bill Mapes describes using Narcan to revive an unconscious opioid user. https://t.co/RbFFW8q86q pic.twitter.com/nbiorz5Xkn — VTDigger (@vtdigger) April 14, 2017
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Rutland EMT Bill Mapes describes using Narcan to revive an unconscious opioid user. https://t.co/RbFFW8q86q pic.twitter.com/nbiorz5Xkn — VTDigger (@vtdigger) April 14, 2017
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On May 3, 2018, VHCF issued a press brief that advocated thr State of Vermont to take legal action against Purdue Pharma over the opioid crisis. SEEKING RESTITUTION: State of Vermont v. Purdue Pharma In 2007, Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty to…
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While gliding down the powdery slopes of Okemo on a frigid February morning this year, Sandra Trounce* slipped and fell onto a patch of ice. Suddenly, any bodily movement brought excruciating pain in her lower back and caused her to suspect that the fall had broken her…
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On “YCN Vermont Wrap with Keith Hanson” [June 1, 2018]: Keith speaks to Meg Hansen, Executive Director of Vermonters for Health Care Freedom about the Vermont’s plan to purchase lower cost prescription drugs reimported from Canada.
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Continue readingBy approving the wholesale reimportation of U.S. prescription drugs from Canada, the Vermont Legislature passed an illegal measure that will not lower drug prices. Instead, it will subject Vermonters to public health risks and new taxes to defray an inevitable…
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Two recent high profile self-hangings, and a new CDC report showing a 25 percent leap in the suicide rate since 1999, occasioned a slew of think-pieces accusing the lonely, fragmented nature of modernity, and American proclivities in particular, for the…
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