1,427 people died in Wisconsin in 2021 from opioid overdose. This is a 16% increase from 2020 and a 70% increase from 2018, according to a report from the Wisconsin […]
Parisi Announces New Initiative to Address Opioid Epidemic in Dane Cou...
Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced today a new initiative to reduce and prevent opioid and fentanyl abuse. The Harm Reduction and Prevention Act consists of $740,000 to fund a […]
Dane County Jail Extends Opioid Treatment Options
WORT 89.9FM Madison · SplinterHeron Jail – Opioid 4 – 12 – 2022 The Dane County Sheriff announced an opioid treatment program today. The goal is to continue residents’ addiction […]
Pharmacies Implicated in the Opioid Crisis, Plus Activists Push to Ban...
Since at least 2014 fake prescriptions have lead to millions of pills ending up on the back market. All the while, the pharmacies and the drug companies are making money […]
Naloxone Boxes Installed in Madison to Fight Overdoses
Jessica Geschke is a Certified Substance Abuse Counselor and Recovery Coach with Wisconsin Voices for Recovery, a statewide peer-run group that helps people and their families through addiction recovery. She […]
White Market Drugs
The contemporary opioid epidemic is just the latest in a long history of Big Pharma–fueled crises in the U.S., argues David Herzberg in his new book, White Market Drugs. But […]
