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    September 13, 2018
    Fargo police report overdose calls climbed in August, 2018. Kits like these help emergency workers saves lives. Forum file photo.play button
    Fargo overdose numbers pop higher in August, police say
    FARGO — Police here are seeing an uptick in opioid related overdoses, according to a posting on the Fargo Police Department Facebook page....
    news/crime-and-courtsSeptember 13, 2018 - 5:31pm
    May 25, 2018
    ND man revived with six doses of Narcan
    BISMARCK -- First-responders administered six doses of Narcan early Friday, May 25, to revive a 22-year-old Bismarck man after a suspected heroin...
    news/accidentsMay 25, 2018 - 4:51pm
    May 3, 2018
    Naloxone, an antidote to opioid overdoses, is shown here with two needles and alcohol swabs. Forum file photo
    Fargo firefighters, police use naloxone to save 25-year-old from opioid overdose
    FARGO — Public health officials are touting the use of naloxone by first responders to save the life of a 25-year-old woman who overdosed on...
    news/accidentsMay 3, 2018 - 10:02am
    January 20, 2018
    The University of North Dakota Police Department has trained its officers to handle Narcan, a nasal spray version of naloxone that fights the effects of an opioid overdose. (Forum News Service Photo)
    Grants help ND agencies equip officers with Narcan: Nasal spray used to battle opioid overdoses could save lives, officers say
    GRAND FORKS — Grants are helping law enforcement agencies in Grand Forks and Polk counties equip their officers with a medicine that can...
    newsJanuary 20, 2018 - 2:34pm
    December 31, 2017
    Killer Crisis: ND health professionals take various tactics to address opioid abuse, treatment
    Across North Dakota, hospitals and health professionals are doing what they can to help combat the ongoing opioid crisis. Here is a look at...
    news/crime-and-courtsDecember 31, 2017 - 12:28pm
    November 30, 2017
    St. Paul police, saying minutes count, will carry Narcan for opioid overdoses
    ST. PAUl — It's not unusual for St. Paul police officers to respond to cases involving people unconscious and barely breathing, and suspected...
    newsNovember 30, 2017 - 8:18pm
    November 16, 2017
    University of North Dakota sophomore Tristan Meadows is hoping to get 50 Narcan kits available around campus to those in a position to help students who've overdosed on opiods. Meadows is the campus leader for Students for Opiod Solutions. Eric Hylden / Forum News Service
    UND student pushes for better access to overdose antidote
    GRAND FORKS — Tristan Meadows is on a mission to save lives. The University of North Dakota sophomore has been named campus leader for...
    lifestyle/healthNovember 16, 2017 - 7:10pm
    Cass County Health Officer Dr. John Baird holds up a a dose of Narcan nasal spray during a news conference at Fargo Cass Public Health on Thursday, Nov. 16, in Fargo. Narcan kits and training in the drug's use is being provided at all of the middle and high schools in the county to treat potential opioid overdoses. Baird said wider distribution of Narcan around the community is being planned. Helmut Schmidt / The Forum
    Narcan distribution planned beyond secondary schools in Cass County
    FARGO - The nasal spray form of Narcan, a drug used to reverse the effects of opioid overdoses, will not only be on hand soon in all of Cass...
    newsNovember 16, 2017 - 2:28pm
    November 15, 2017
    Helmut Schmidt / The Forum
    'You're trying to prevent a death': All Cass County middle, high schools to have Narcan kits for opioid overdoses
    FARGO—All public and private high schools and middle schools in Cass County will soon have on their campuses Narcan, a drug that reverses...
    newsNovember 15, 2017 - 8:34pm
    November 7, 2017
    Bismarck responders revive 4 people from apparent overdoses
    BISMARCK — Police, fire and ambulance personnel in Bismarck handled four apparent overdoses between Friday, Nov. 3, and Sunday. In each...
    news/crime-and-courtsNovember 7, 2017 - 8:24am
    August 13, 2017
    Police Officers Damian Girodat, left, and Melvin Vargas now carry Naloxone in their vests while on duty. The drug can be used to temporarily reverse an opioid overdose. Tom Stromme / Bismarck Tribune
    'Deadly trend' of opioid abuse makes stop in Bismarck
    BISMARCK — Look east down Interstate 94, to Fargo, to Grand Forks, to Minneapolis, to Chicago and Detroit. You'll see the road drug investigators...
    newsAugust 13, 2017 - 4:17am
    June 8, 2017
    Dilworth Police Chief Ty Sharpe shows the naloxone kit that police officers will have in their squad cars.David Samson / Forum News Serviceplay button
    Dilworth police carrying opioid antidote is first in Fargo-Moorhead area
    DILWORTH, Minn. — City police officers here have become the first in the Fargo-Moorhead area to carry the opioid antidote naloxone in their...
    newsJune 8, 2017 - 9:40pm
    May 17, 2017
    Many overdose victims administer lifesaving treatments on themselves instead of calling police
    FARGO—Fargo police are trying to determine if a death in North Fargo is the sixth in the city this year due to an opioid overdose. Although...
    newsMay 17, 2017 - 9:21pm
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