Narcan two years later: Still saving SCV lives
Proving just how necessary Narcan has become in saving the lives of SCV heroin addicts, local sheriff’s deputies dispatched Thursday for an unresponsive man feared dead in the bathroom of…
Proving just how necessary Narcan has become in saving the lives of SCV heroin addicts, local sheriff’s deputies dispatched Thursday for an unresponsive man feared dead in the bathroom of…
18 local stories that shaped the SCV in 2018 Editor’s note: You can’t say it was an uneventful year: 2018 in the Santa Clarita Valley was shaped by a wide…
Santa Clarita had a 2-1 ratio of people to opioid prescriptions in the last year, but had a 1-2,700 ratio for anti-overdose drugs to opioid prescriptions, according to data recently…
Deputies administering Narcan revived the unconscious victim of an opioid drug overdose Saturday, one year after a phalanx of civic leaders, first responders and physicians joined in the grand…
Representative Steve Knight, R-Palmdale, said he has joined a congressional bipartisan task force to craft legislation to fight heroin addiction. The task force, led by Rep. Tom MacArthur, R-Conn., and…
Less than two weeks after sheriff's personnel saved five people from overdosing at the Inmate Reception Center in L.A., detectives at Pitchess Detention Center arrested two men on drug smuggling…
A Santa Clarita Valley mother walks into her son’s bedroom, finds him blue, unconscious and — by all appearances — dead. But, she grabs the “miracle drug” Narcan, gives it…
The Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station will soon be equipped with even more of the life-saving opioid antidote Narcan. Matrix Institute on Addictions donated at total of 502 two-dose packages…
Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department does not want a drug overdose to be the end of a life. Instead, they want it to be the beginning of treatment and healing. By…
Source: Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station Today, groups of deputies at SCV Sheriff's are getting trained on the use of naloxene, commonly known as Narcan®, so that they can immediately…
Local sheriff’s officials busy responding to the ill-effects of a heroin/opioid epidemic in the SCV are eagerly awaiting the arrival of a drug which can stop an opioid overdose. The…