Featured Opioid deaths continue to rise in first few months of 2018
The opioid epidemic continues to ravage the nation and the Magnolia state. Department of Public Safety Commissioner Marshall Fisher said that as of the end...
Tag : NARCAN
Featured Deputy saves overdose victim with Narcan
by Alex Paton
The Rankin County Sheriff’s Department received a report on Christmas day of an unconscious man at a home in a subdivision in the northern part...
Change your perspective; stop the dying. Hope is here.
by Jared Bounds
In light of the numerous stories focused on opioid addiction and death circulating throughout the country, News Mississippi’s Jared Bounds wanted to tell a story...
Narcan already saving lives in state’s battle against heroin
by Jared Bounds
As public health officials continue to battle the death and trauma caused by heroin and prescription pain addiction and overdose in the state, a glimmer...
MHP trains officers to use NARCAN
by Alex Paton
Governor Phil Bryant and John Dowdy, Director of the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics recently announced the plan to train law enforcement officers to administer NARCAN...
MS law enforcement officers to administer overdose treatment drugs
by Alex Paton
Mississippi Law enforcement will now be able to administer Narcan, a drug that has been proven to save lives in the event of an opioid...