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Under the state’s Good Samaritan Law, if you seek medical help for someone having an overdose, neither one of you can be charged for having or using a small amount of drugs.
An opioid overdose is toxicity due to excessive consumption of opioids, such as morphine, codeine, heroin, fentanyl, tramadol, and methadone. [3] [5] This preventable pathology can be fatal if it leads to respiratory depression, a lethal condition that can cause hypoxia from slow and shallow breathing. [3]
Opioid overdose deaths have grown much faster than other overdose deaths. In 2020 in Benton and Franklin counties the rate was 15.3 people per 100,000, or about 46 people that year. It’s close ...
Narcan is a lifesaving drug but a pack of two doses can cost up to $45 which can be a problem for many people who may need it one day.
Contact high is a phenomenon that occurs in otherwise sober people who experience a drug-like effect just by coming into contact with someone who is under the influence of a psychoactive drug. In a similar way to the placebo effect, a contact high may be caused by classical conditioning as well as by the physical and social setting. [8] [9]
A heroin overdose may be treated with naloxone. [12] As of 2015, an estimated 17 million people use opiates, of which heroin is the most common, [14] [15] and opioid use resulted in 122,000 deaths; [16] also, as of 2015, the total number of heroin users worldwide is believed to have increased in Africa, the Americas, and Asia since 2000. [17]
2010: Heroin became prevalent. New Jersey has a rate of heroin overdose 3 times the national average. [7] However, heroin overdoses peaked in 2017 and began to decline in 2018. [8] 2013: The proliferation of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids drove a significant increase in overdose deaths.
One U.S. County has prevented 42 fatal heroin and opiate overdoses over the past year by using one simple drug.