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St. Louis County is set to receive $45 million from the settlement with drugmakers and manufacturers, which will be paid out in portions over more than a decade. The county could use the money to upgrade the medical examiner's office, which is swamped with overdose victims, County Executive Sam Page said.
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The rates of alcohol and drug abuse are higher within the food service industry than most other professions. And yet, restaurateur Katie Collier is a testament to the fact that you don’t need to leave the service industry to curb an addiction. After struggling with substance abuse for years, Collier is now celebrating a decade of sobriety.
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St. Louis-based pharmaceutical company Mallinckrodt on Monday filed for bankruptcy after years of lawsuits alleging the drug company shared blame for the opioid epidemic. State, local and tribal governments have sued Mallinckrodt and other opioid manufacturers, saying the companies pushed the painkillers to patients despite knowing how addictive and dangerous they were.
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The number of fatal opioid overdoses in St. Louis and St. Louis County in the first seven months of this year is 32% higher than in the same period in 2019. Black men in the region saw a 56% increase in the number of overdose deaths.
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Two St. Louis addiction treatment advocates have opened a 24-hour clinic that treats addiction and mental health problems using the urgent-care model.
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The number of black men in St. Louis and St. Louis County who died of opioid drug overdoses increased between 2018 and 2019, even as those deaths declined…
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Emergency workers in St. Louis responded to an increased number of drug overdoses this spring, according to city health data. St. Louis EMS responders…
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On most days, workers from the Missouri Network for Opiate Reform and Recovery meet with clients at the addiction treatment center’s South Broadway…
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The St. Louis County Health Department is distributing free bottles of an overdose antidote to save people addicted to opioids.The department announced…
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Washington University’s Clinic for Acceptance, Recovery and Empowerment treats women who become pregnant while dealing with an opioid use disorder. It…