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Naloxone aids fight against evolving opioid epidemic

Anthony Zacharyasz, General Assignment Editor • November 11, 2023

From 2014 to 2022, approximately 551,772 naloxone kits have been distributed throughout Ohio through Project DAWN, an Ohio Department of Health program – generating 68,586 known overdose reversals. Naloxone,...

Portage County Health District holds “Project DAWN” training at Kent State

Jake Majka • September 26, 2018

While the opioid epidemic in Ohio continues to be a point of concern within communities, people are looking for ways they can help address the problem.The Portage County Health District held its “Project...

Representatives educate on heroin epidemic, distribute rescue kits

Alicia Krynock • July 5, 2017

Representatives from Townhall II, Portage County Health Department and Ohio CAN educated residents on the causes of addiction and how to help and distributed Narcan rescue kits June 27 at St. Joseph Church...

The dragon bites back: the rise of the heroin epidemic

Dylan Webb • September 13, 2016

The heroin epidemic is hitting Ohio, and it's biting back harder than ever. All over social media this week were the gruesome pictures of a couple in East Liverpool who had overdosed on heroin, a young...

Students question effectiveness of recent heroin overdose antidote

Payton Moore • March 11, 2015

In 2012, Ohio saw its highest heroin death toll of 680 people according to the Department of Health — a record-breaking number expected to continually rise. In its wake, public health emergencies were...