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  Join forces with other first responders for stronger opioid response

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  Addressing the opioid epidemic requires a coordinated and collaborative effort by police, EMS and other first responders

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  Md. county to expand opioid prevention education through D.A.R.E.

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  As the nation’s opioid epidemic continues to grow, police departments and schools are looking for more ways to fight back

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  Why police officers need PPE that serves and protects

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  Officers often fail to use proper protection from contact with dangerous drugs and other toxic substances

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  2018 COPS Office grants: What police leaders need to know

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  Community policing programs and illicit drug investigations are the focus of this year’s funding

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  3 surveillance tactics to find and stop opioid dealers

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  When responding to opioid overdose calls, police investigators can deploy these tactics to locate drug dealers

• Policing Matters Podcast: Should drug dealers get the death penalty?

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  Jim and Doug discuss whether or not such a policy targeting “large-scale drug dealers” might become a judicial quagmire

• Video: Ohio officer given Narcan during drug arrest

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  The officer was making an arrest outside a truck stop when he was exposed to an unknown substance

• Police honor boy, 2, for helping officer save overdose victim

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  A Pennsylvania officer is crediting a sharp and curious 2-year-old boy for helping him save an overdose victim’s life

• Maine PD receives Naloxone grant

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  The Kennebunk Police Department will receive Naloxone auto-injectors to assist in preventing opioid overdose deaths

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  Sessions issues memo on use of death penalty in drug-related cases

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  The memo comes after President Donald Trump called for death sentences for some drug dealers

• Mo. police receive grant to combat opioid overdoses

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  Thanks to a Missouri grant, police will now be outfitted with the emergency drug Narcan

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  Opioid overdoses and police use of naloxone

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  Dave Adler discusses police response to opioid overdoses and the use of naloxone.

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  Researchers: Naloxone availability encourages risky opioid use

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  By broadening addict and layperson access to naloxone, the paper claims naloxone access laws don't reduce opioid-related mortality

• Opioids dangers force police to abandon drug field tests

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  The dangers of opioids are forcing police to change the way they test drugs found during traffic stops or arrests

• Alaska troopers: Fentanyl overdoses are a growing concern

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  The synthetic opioid fentanyl is an escalating problem in Alaska, and it's leading to a significant increase in deaths, state authorities said

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