Word: chicago
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...afford an Ivy League education. Recalling his early days of transition between Denver and Harvard, Howe interrupts himself to say, “By the way, in those days transportation meant the train,” he said, “It was a night between Denver and Chicago and then another between Chicago and South Station where the train came in early in the morning. So this is a different world.” It was a different world, a slower world, one that is closer perhaps to the world that Howe wrote about in “What...
...organization's strategy is a simple one: Help people help themselves. Since 2001, Chicago Recovery Alliance has distributed more than 11,000 anti-overdose kits to drug users at needle-exchange programs and other sites in Chicago. The kits, which include vials of the drug naloxone (brand name Narcan), commonly used in hospitals and ambulances to reverse opiate overdose, have led to at least 1,000 successful overdose reversals in the city since 2001, according to Bigg. They are now part of a growing nationwide effort to stem the increasing rate of accidental drug-related fatalities...
...date, at least 17 states, along with city health departments in New York City, Baltimore, Boston and San Francisco, now have in place programs similar to that of Chicago Recovery Alliance. But not all officials agree that they are a viable part of any solution to the country's drug problem. Critics argue that arming drug addicts with an overdose remedy only encourages more drug use; they also say naloxone should be administered only by medical professionals to protect against side effects and potentially dangerous misuse. The deputy director of former President Bush's Office of National Drug Control Policy...
That was the precisely the situation that Bigg walked into about two years ago, when he found a clammy, unconscious 25-year-old man sprawled out on a La-Z-Boy in a chic Chicago townhouse. He had overdosed on heroin and GHB (a party drug that is also used as a date-rape drug), according to his two panicked friends. The friends were high too, and afraid to call 911, so they called Bigg instead, whom they knew from Chicago Recovery Alliance's needle-exchange program...
While dramatic tales are many, it's still not clear how effective naloxone programs are overall. Research on their impact has only just begun. One study, published in the Journal of Addictive Diseases in 2006, found that after increasing for years, heroin-overdose deaths in Chicago dropped 20% in 2001, the year Bigg's program began, and fell an additional 10% the following year. So far, addiction researchers say no significant problems have been reported with naloxone use, but they concede that much more studying needs to be done...