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Sep 12 2017
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Alaska State Troopers Lt. Steve Adams shows how to use Narcat at a training Aug. 18 in Anchorage. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/Alaska Public Media)

As demand for opioid remedy skyrockets, police train for overdose treatment with Naloxone

By | Alcohol & Substance Abuse, Federal Government, Health, Public Safety, Southcentral, State Government

Naloxone — a medication that rapidly reverses the effects of an opioid overdose — has long been used by emergency medics, but now it’s being deployed to police departments and non-profits at the front line of the state’s opioid crisis. Even with millions of new federal dollars being spent, the demand in outpacing the supply.

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Sep 07 2017
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Julie Mix McPeak, Mike Kreidler, Lori K. Wing-Heier, Teresa Miller and John Doak testify before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions on Wednesday, September 7, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Alaska Division of Insurance Wing-Heier advised senators how to improve the Affordable Care Act. (Photo by Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media)

U.S. Senators aim for ACA fixes, Murkowski-style

By | Federal Government, Health, Nation & World

A U.S. Senate committee met Wednesday to figure out what to do about health care. The hearing was open and bipartisan, just the process U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski was calling for when she cast a key vote against the repeal-and-replace plan Republican leaders drafted behind closed doors. But time is short.

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