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...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...
...part, that's because few overdose victims get immediate medical treatment. While most overdoses take place in the presence of other people (surveys of heroin users suggest that 58% to 86% were not alone when an overdose occurred), many bystanders don't call the authorities for help, usually because they're high themselves. Naloxone kits can be crucial in these circumstances...
Bigg tried unsuccessfully to rouse the young man. He moved him onto a bed to help him breathe. Still no response. But about a minute after Bigg administered a 1-cc dose of naloxone, the young man's color improved and he began to come around. "He was like someone trying to go back to sleep, with his mother waking him," says Bigg...
...analysts believe OPEC's decisions on Thursday could help push oil prices even higher; oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange have risen 36% in just two months, to about $63.46 a barrel on Thursday. And that appears to be on track to achieve targets set by OPEC leaders. Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi - OPEC's key power player - said Wednesday that oil prices ought to rise to between $75 and $80 a barrel by the end of the year. "Demand is picking up, especially in Asia," he told reporters puffing alongside him as he jogged through...
...Bill Clinton's "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" moment - a fact-checking challenge to investigators throughout Berlusconistan and a spur to even more debate and speculation about the Prime Minister's private life. But at the same time, the potential for scandal just might help Berlusconi keep his popularity high by giving him center stage in a public arena that ever more resembles The Jerry Springer Show (or a Fellini film...