People who think they are buying “Molly” at music festivals often end up with pills or powder that contain other drugs, according to a new study. Researchers studied data collected by the organization DanceSafe, which tested samples of pills or powder sold as Molly at music festivals in the United States between 2010 and 2015, […]
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner is sounding an alarm. Dr. Andrew Baker says the opioid epidemic and a national shortage of medical examiners have created a perfect storm that is taxing death investigations in Minnesota and across the country like never before. There have been a lot of long days and nights at the Hennepin […]
Much of the conversation surrounding the opioid epidemic has, understandably, centered on poorer Americans, many of whom are insured under the Medicaid state-federal safety net program for low-income people. But a new analysis of more than 200 million private insurance claims finds that the crisis is also taking a massive toll on those with private […]
April 26, 2016 – Dave and Mary Baker buried their son in Aitkin but they’re determined his story will live on to help others in the battle against opioid addiction. Heroin in a bottle.” That’s what Dave Baker calls the prescription pills sitting in medicine cabinets in homes across the county and throughout the state. […]
BEMIDJI, Minn. – Few things have been as heart-wrenching for obstetrics doctors and nurses at Sanford Bemidji Medical Center in recent years as helpless newborns hooked on the opioid drugs their mothers abused during or before pregnancy. Many of the infants recoil at a nurse’s touch, cry constantly, clench their muscles tightly, and tremble and sweat […]
Nine years later and John Gahagan still remembers the day his 17-year-old son Sean lost his fight to opioid addiction very clearly. “Oh my God, it was the worst day of my life,” John Gahagan told KIRO Radio’s Ron and Don. “I was at work. My wife found him in his bedroom … He was sitting […]