On Tuesday, July 23, Sue Purchase loaded up the trunk of her car outside her Duluth home and drove to the Fond du Lac Reservation to make a delivery. “I was making sure she had a sharps container, Narcan, (fentanyl) test strips, HIV information,” Purchase said later. Born in Duluth, raised in Cloquet and a […]
Two Minnesota doctors on the front lines of the opioid epidemic describe the telltale warning signs of addition to prescription painkillers. The latest numbers are sobering: On average, 91 people a day die from an opioid-related overdose, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Minnesota is far from immune to the pain […]
AMERICANS OVER 50 are using narcotic pain pills in surprisingly high numbers, and many are becoming addicted. While media attention has focused on younger people buying illegal opioids on the black market, dependence can also start with a legitimate prescription from a doctor: A well-meant treatment for knee surgery or chronic back troubles is often the path […]