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• Compass project helps first responders focus on wellness

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  West Virginia’s opioid crisis sparks launch of initiatives to supports mental and physical health among fire and police personnel

• What law enforcement needs to know about drug diversion

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  As drug diversion escalates within healthcare, how can police improve response and communication with hospitals?

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• Compassion fatigue: The hidden danger of concurrent national public health emergencies

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  Training, mental health resources are essential to support first responders facing both the opioid crisis and COVID-19 outbreak

• Investigating the pandemic's effect on overdoses

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  While preliminary data shows no significant change in overdose numbers, one agency describes how stay-at-home orders have impacted overdose locations and outreach efforts

• Reader poll: Cops' increasing role in providing medical care

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  This month, we asked our readers a series of questions about the medical gear they carry, the training they’ve received and the lifesaving measures they’ve taken on the job

• 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

• 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

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