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• Research: Illness from accidental opioid exposure ‘extremely unlikely’

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  Researchers warn that misinformation about unintentional fentanyl exposure can have negative consequences for responders and opioid overdose patients

• A letter to the American public: Forget about the war on drugs, drugs are waging war on us

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  While some headway has been made recently with a decline in overdose deaths, our “allies” in our efforts have become part of the problem

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  Can simulation replace live-fire training? (eBook)

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• A preview of FY 2020 Department of Justice grants for police, corrections

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  There are several potential grant opportunities for law enforcement agencies

• Warning issued after at least 3 high schoolers in King County die from fentanyl-laced pills

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  The students died after taking what they thought were oxycodone or OxyContin pills

• Trooper gets lifesaving award after helping woman who OD’d during traffic stop

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  Trooper Joseph Ballone used life-saving measures to reverse a potentially lethal overdose

• NC agencies go high-tech against opioid crisis

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  Using ODMAP, law enforcement and public health can input, monitor and track overdose data using times, dates and locations

• Conn. police join a growing trend of offering addicts treatment over jail

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  Using grant monies, the Vernon Police Department is connecting addicts with recovery coaches and moving them into treatment rather than jail

• Diverting defendants to treatment

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  Model pretrial jail programs provide withdrawal management and medication-assisted treatment for jail detainees

• How a pre-arrest opiate diversion program is saving lives in Wisconsin

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  If a person commits a low-level crime to support an opiate addiction, they can avoid arrest if they are willing to enter a treatment program

• Vt. state trooper revived after apparent drug exposure

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  A Vermont trooper had to be revived by fellow troopers after he was exposed to an opioid-like drug

• Before heroin overdose, Baltimore officer went for intervention at police wellness office

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  The officer had been using drugs throughout the day with his girlfriend before overdosing on heroin and dying

• 10 opioid crisis actions for law enforcement

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  Police agencies are on the frontline of this crisis – here are 10 steps all chiefs and sheriffs need to take

• Mass. police chiefs want feds to help stem flow of opioids

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  Massachusetts police chiefs are seeking federal action to choke off the fentanyl supply in their communities

• NJ police revive school bus driver with Narcan after crash

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  Police used Narcan to revive a school bus driver after the bus, with a dozen children on board, hit a tree

• Ariz. sheriff agrees to equip deputies with overdose reversal drug

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  All deputies would be issued doses of the lifesaving drug to carry in their individual first aid kits

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