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• Official: Pa. firefighter was defending himself when police cuffed him

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  Fire company officials said Lt. Mike Naylor was first pushed by a trooper when the lieutenant wanted to protect the people inside the car before the window was broken

• Police restrain Pa. firefighter after altercation at crash scene

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  The firefighter was handcuffed after yelling at troopers for breaking a car window to treat a possible OD patient, refusing the leave the scene and pushing a trooper

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• Is Narcan turning firefighters from helpers to haters?

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  Firefighters, EMTs and paramedics have an obligation to respond regardless of their opinions about addiction and Narcan

• Q&A: The fire department role in identifying and mitigating community hazards

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  Chief Michael O’Brian describes the biggest risk management issues facing the fire service – and where progress can be made

• SC city firefighters now equipped with naloxone

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  Firefighters will be carrying two doses of naloxone after the department administered the drug on 223 calls in one year

• Tenn. city fire departments will become safe havens for residents with opioid addiction

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  The initiative launches at the end of the month and will provide 24-hour assistance for those seeking to be connected with treatment and recovery options

• 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

• 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"

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