Medical
Drug overdoses are at record levels, and as recent news reports indicate, children are succumbing to fentanyl-related exposures in the classroom
Opioid settlement funding will continue for 11 to 18 years, and it is expected that more settlements will be forthcoming. Is your agency getting its share?
I discovered some “every day” and unorthodox LE tools that are a perfect match
Attorney General Eric Holder has urged first responders to use an overdose-reversal drug to help save lives amid a nationwide resurgence in heroin abuse
There has been a big resurgence in heroin mainly because a legitimate prescription drug — Oxycontin — is now much more difficult to obtain
Officers in the Johnstown Police Department’s K9 unit are their dog’s partners, friends and — in some unfortunate situations — their doctors, too
Lakeland PD trains officers to use defibrillators to shock stopped hearts.
The man’s lips were blue and he didn’t appear to be breathing
Buffalo firefighters believe they have the exclusive right to administer Narcan, a lifesaving antidote to forestall the effects of heroin and prescription painkiller overdoses
Supporters say the opportunity to save potentially thousands of lives outweighs any fears by critics that the promise of a nearby antidote would only encourage drug abuse
It was the first time Dallas police used the medical kit, which includes a tourniquet, special anti-clotting gauze and bandages
Officer Dwayne Huddleston went the extra mile and took her son out to keep his mind off his ill mother
Let’s get back to the basics of AEDs.
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