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Naloxone is a drug that quickly reverses an overdose of heroin or other opioid drugs. It’s been used by hospitals and emergency medical workers since the…
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At any given time, about ten percent of Oregonians suffer from back pain. Many end up being prescribed opioid painkillers such as Vicodin. And as JPR…
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The first thing I realized when I started reporting on the heroin epidemic in southern Oregon is that pretty much everything I thought I knew about it was…
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Dr. Jim Shames is an addiction specialist and the medical director for Jackson County Health and Human Services. He says doctors like him played a key…
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Today, we meet Darryl Inaba. He’s a Doctor of Clinical Pharmacy and co-author of “Uppers, Downers, All Arounders,” a book on addiction and the brain…
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In this final part of the series, we meet 27-year-old Diana Cooper. She’s a mother of four from Medford -- and a recovering heroin addict.Cooper says…
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The search for pain relief is turning respectable members of the community into drug addicts.It's happened for years, since the introduction of the highly…