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• Ill. FD program allows first responders to leave Narcan with patients

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  The Dixon Fire Department partnered with the Safe Passage Initiative to prevent overdoses in the event a patient refuses treatment

• FDNY firefighter resigns after busted for selling pills

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  Ex-firefighter Michael Halderman, whose father, grandfather and uncle all served as firefighters, sold an opioid painkiller to an informant working with Nassau County police

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  W.Va. fire dept. pushes to protect firefighters from cancer after chief’s death, one diagnosis

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  Now that the Moundsville Fire Department has been affected by cancer twice, firefighter Wendi Wentzell-Cuc said their push to evolve is greater than ever

• NM pilot program provides overdose patients access to naloxone

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  The Santa Fe County’s new harm-reduction unit aims to provide access to treatment, education and the necessary drugs before they become a statistic

• Retired Fla. firefighter working to combat overdose epidemic

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  Luis Garcia has visited five states over 22 months, offered 106 two-hour classes and donated 2,800 Narcan sprays to attendees and saved 122 lives

• 2 Fla. firefighters recovering after fentanyl exposure

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  During a traffic stop, a deputy sheriff located narcotics and shortly thereafter began to pass out; Fire rescue personnel arrived on scene and two firefighters also began feeling ill

• The opioid epidemic: How an Ohio fire department is there for addicts ready for help

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  Former addict, kept alive by firefighter/paramedics, now part of an Ohio community’s approach to stem the opioid crisis

• Judge: Drug-addled EMT son of FDNY chief should lose his city job

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  Robert Gala, 26, unsuccessfully argued that his oxycodone addiction was a disability that should have spared him termination after five years on the job

• 60 people charged in illegal prescription opioid crackdown

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  Robert Duncan, U.S. attorney for eastern Kentucky, called the doctors involved "white-coated drug dealers"

• ESO announces partnership with NarcBox to help agencies manage narcotics

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  The collaboration will provide agencies a streamlined way of managing and tracking narcotic distribution

• Risk management through community engagement

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  Understanding your community’s needs and creating custom community engagement plans by station

• Code 3 Podcast: Is naloxone necessary?

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  Board certified emergency medicine physician Bryan Bledsoe says EMS providers rarely need to administer naloxone

• How to decontaminate firefighter gear after a brush with fentanyl

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  Follow these five steps to decontaminate firefighter gear after a medical call involving opioids to avoid exposure

• N.H. first responders to make house calls for drug treatment

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  NH Project FIRST enlists “quick response teams” to return after an overdose call and offer to connect individuals with services at their local treatment hub

• NH Safe Stations recognized at first responders breakfast

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  Natacha Davis stood before 300 first responders and told them how the caring she found at a fire station helped her to finally overcome her addiction

• Officials accuse NY fire Lt. of leading drug ring

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  Officials said 29 people, one of them a fire lieutenant and two of them volunteer firefighters, have been charged in connection with drug rings

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