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Lt. Gov. Hall-Long helps lead team to combat opioid epidemic. WILMINGTON, DE – Lieutenant Governor Bethany Hall-Long announced a “Bench Opioids” initiative will begin March 8, 2023, at the Delaware High School Basketball Championships as a proactive prevention and drug disposal blitz targeting opioid use disorder and overdose deaths. The campaign will include the distribution of free at-home drug disposal kits at the basketball games. The effort is being led by the Lt. Governor’s Office and the Department of Education with support from the Delaware Prescription Opioid Settlement Distribution Commission and the Department of Public Safety.  “This is a full…

DisposeRx and Texas Legends are Teaming Up to Fight the Opioid Epidemic Learn more by watching an interview that Carol Dorn Sanders conducted with Malcolm Farmer, President of the Texas Legends. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QPBB-TcWMY

Opioids are the most common cause of fatal poisonings in young children, according to research presented earlier this month at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference. This isn’t news to Sana Minhas, senior project manager in the Department of Pharmacy at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. She has long been an advocate for the importance of education and community outreach to prevent overdose and accidental poisonings, not only for the hospital’s pediatric patients but for their parents and the Chicagoland community. Education and prevention are a first line of defense in preventing opioid misuse that…