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Overdose crisis
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My hospital sits in the middle of town with 30 thousand residents and employ roughly four thousand people spread out through three health care facilities. Two of the three hospitals has an emergency department but there is a 40 mile gap in between. The hospital sitting in the middle of town is the main campus and over the last year, an epidemic has swept through our town. Not only in our down but all over the United States. This epidemic is drugs and the amount of overdoses.
On June 29th, 2017 in a span of 24 hours, the town of 30 thousand residents had 37 overdoses in the emergency department (Krize, 2017). I was working those days and witnessed the insanity that was going on in the emergency department. The article cited at the bottom doesn’t paint the entire picture. At the 32 hour mark, we hit 60+ overdoses. The town has come together and trying to put an end to this epidemic and Governor Wolf has made significant changes that would help lower the overdose rates. Every EMT and police officer carries Narcan, which is used to counter an overdose. Lycoming county has extended the funds to police departments to create a new drug task force that h

as put a huge dent with the amount of dealers in the area. My town sits in the middle of two large cities and drug dealers come here because there isn’t as much of a police presence.
The hospital and the community has done a good job of spreading awareness throughout the community. However, we still see a good amount of overdoses every day and recently the county coroner has made a request for a larger morgue because of the overdoses. Lycoming County made Narcan an over the counter drug so anyone can get buy it. This can either save lives because now everyone has access to it or encourage more drug use. The results are still unknown but as of right now, there isn’t much change.
Krize (2017) “Epidemic of Overdoses in Lycoming County” Retrieved from
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Kevin’s post. Overdose has been a menace in several states in the United States of America. According to coroner, (2015), most people who are usually overdosed on drug influence, usually end up dead. The death rate is quite high. Heroine and opioids are quite deadly. I agree to the post since it offers some of the ways in which the epidemic can be countered…………….
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