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Orlando Police Department Could Receive 500 Additional Doses of NARCAN Through Health Department Grant

Danielle Prieur

The Orlando City Council is applying for a Florida Department of Health grant that would provide Orlando Police officers with hundreds of additional doses of NARCAN.

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Trusting Injection Drug Users With IV Antibiotics At Home: It Can Work

WMFE Staff

When patients need long-term treatment with IV antibiotics, hospitals usually let them do it at home — but not if they have a history of injection drug use. A Boston program wants to change that.

Fentanyl Hits Florida Hard and Other Observations from New Data on the Opioid Epidemic in the State

Danielle Prieur

The rate of illicit drug overdose deaths increased by more than 1400 percent since the beginning of the decade.

First Responders are at Risk Responding to Drug Overdoses Where Fentanyl Could be Present: One UCF Professor has a Solution

Danielle Prieur

Fentanyl could be deadly for first responders-but what if they had a laser shooting gun that could detect these substances beforehand. That's exactly what UCF's Dr. Subith Vasu and his team plan on finding out with their design.