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Health officials say fatal overdoses in King County have increased sharply over the last two weeks. The Medical Examiner's Office has identified 42…
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You could make a pretty good case that the epicenter of the opioid crisis in all of North America is British Columbia. Just five years ago overdose deaths…
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From 2010 to 2015, the number of new infections leaped nearly 300 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And researchers appear confident of the cause.
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Seattle police are warning heroin users about dangerous purity levels after several recent overdoses.Police spokesman Sgt. Sean Whitcomb says three people…
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The word epidemic is often used when discussing opioid use in King County. In fact, a task force was formed earlier this year to come up with…
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As doctors and nurses learn more about what the body goes through during drug use, they are changing the treatment they provide for patients on heroin and other drugs.
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A University of Washington report on drug addiction in King County confirms that heroin use is still on the rise. But for the first time, researchers say…
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At the height of her addiction to heroin, Tracey Helton Mitchell lived in an alley and sold her body. Now she works as an addiction specialist helping others. Her new memoir is The Big Fix.
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Set to open within a few weeks, the room will not be a place to inject drugs or get high, say health providers. Instead, a nurse will monitor heroin users as they come down from the drug's effects.
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Deaths from prescription painkiller overdoses are down in Washington, but new statewide numbers show that progress is being offset by another alarming…