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Drug Overdose Calls Have Skyrocketed in Louisville

February 15th, 2017 • Lawsuits & Litigation • 2 minute read
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Author Sara E. Teller

Drug Overdose Calls Have Skyrocketed in Louisville

To say there has been a nationwide spike in the use of narcotics and other controlled substances is an understatement.  Drug use has skyrocketed and become an epidemic across all ages, including our children, who are often exposed to drugs amid their peers in their early teens.  Medical personnel in a large number of facilities are now required to stock Naloxone, or as it is also known, Narcan, a drug that counteracts the effects of opioid use and if administered in a timely manner, can save a life.  Emergency rooms are seeing an influx of overdose cases, and even urgent cares and primary care facilities have had to stock the drug and frequently rush patients who end up there inadvertently to nearby hospitals.

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Nationwide, medical personnel have witnessed a spike in heroin and fentanyl use with the death rate from synthetic opioids increasing over 72 percent from 2014 to 2015, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  Even those patients who have cancer and other terminal diseases who use fentanyl and other controlled substances under the supervision of licensed doctors and facilities are becoming addicted to the drugs, and are having a hard time weaning off the substances if it's determined they are no longer needed.

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Overdose cases spike in Louisville: 52 calls in 32 hours14 fatal overdoses in Cuyahoga County over the weekend
Sara E. Teller

About Sara E. Teller

Sara is a credited freelance writer, editor, contributor, and essayist, as well as a novelist and poet with nearly twenty years of experience. A seasoned publishing professional, she's worked for newspapers, magazines and book publishers in content digitization, editorial, acquisitions and intellectual property. Sara has been an invited speaker at a Careers in Publishing & Authorship event at Michigan State University and a Reading and Writing Instructor at Sylvan Learning Center. She has an MBA degree with a concentration in Marketing and an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, graduating with a 4.2/4.0 GPA. She is also a member of Chi Sigma Iota and a 2020 recipient of the Donald D. Davis scholarship recognizing social responsibility. Sara is certified in children's book writing, HTML coding and social media marketing. Her fifth book, PTSD: Healing from the Inside Out, was released in September 2019 and is available on Amazon. You can find her others books there, too, including Narcissistic Abuse: A Survival Guide, released in December 2017.

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