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Illustration by Ben Hickey/CalMattersEmployers and unions are grappling with the opioid crisis, while the state inches toward requiring Narcan in workplaces. -
Kristian Foden-Vencil/OPBOregon will soon require health care facilities to provide opioid overdose medication when releasing some at-risk patients.
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The initiative comes amid a big jump in the number of teens who鈥檝e died from drug overdoses in the last five years. -
Patients with a history of opioid use would get increased access to overdose reversal medications under a bill backed by Gov. Tina Kotek and top legislative leaders. -
One lawmaker said she鈥檚 seeing a 鈥渟kyrocketing鈥� problem of too many people with substance abuse disorder being unable to access treatment and described her bills as a 鈥渟topgap鈥� that she said will save lives. -
The HIV Alliance in Eugene puts a lot of time and effort into curbing the chances of people getting HIV infections. The alliance already offers needle鈥� -
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�
