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Harm
Reduction:
Responding
to
Wave
of
Fentanyl
Overdose
Deaths,
Senator
Durbin
Proposes
OD
Prevention
Bill
6/30/06
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/442/durbinbill.shtml
With Chicago among the major
cities suffering a wave of overdose deaths from heroin cut with fentanyl,
a powerful synthetic opiate, Illinois Senator Richard Durbin is proposing
legislation to send federal funds to state-designed overdose prevention
programs in a bid to cut the death toll. Hundreds of people have
died since last fall, with major outbreaks in the past two months in Chicago,
Detroit, Philadelphia, and the Mid-Atlantic Seaboard.
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Sen. Durbin
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Introduced June 22, the Drug
Overdose Reduction Act would earmark federal funds for training first
responders, law enforcement and corrections personnel, and "people affected
by drug abuse" on effective responses to ODs and to implement programs
to provide overdose prevention, recognition, treatment to overdose victims.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, more than 28,000 people died
of drug-related causes last year. The bill would also require the
CDC to develop a comprehensive anti-drug plan.
The Drug Policy Alliance
had prodded Durbin to act and welcomed
the bill's introduction. "Many policymakers have been sitting
on their hands while people lose their loved ones to drug overdose, but
Sen. Durbin has taken decisive action to save lives," said Bill Piper,
DPA's director of national affairs."
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Issue #442
-- 6/30/06
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OD
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Bill
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