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Naloxone is a drug that quickly reverses an overdose of heroin or other opioid drugs. It鈥檚 been used by hospitals and emergency medical workers since the鈥�

At any given time, about ten percent of Oregonians suffer from back pain. Many end up being prescribed opioid painkillers such as Vicodin. And as JPR鈥�

The first thing I realized when I started reporting on the heroin epidemic in southern Oregon is that pretty much everything I thought I knew about it was鈥�

Dr. Jim Shames is an addiction specialist and the medical director for Jackson County Health and Human Services. He says doctors like him played a key鈥�

Today, we meet Darryl Inaba. He鈥檚 a Doctor of Clinical Pharmacy and co-author of 鈥淯ppers, Downers, All Arounders,鈥� a book on addiction and the brain鈥�

In this final part of the series, we meet 27-year-old Diana Cooper. She鈥檚 a mother of four from Medford -- and a recovering heroin addict.Cooper says鈥�

The search for pain relief is turning respectable members of the community into drug addicts.It's happened for years, since the introduction of the highly鈥�