by RxSafe Marin | Mar 16, 2020 | News, Public Health Advisory
Here at RxSafe Marin our mission is to promote safety in the community. Under normal circumstances our updates revolve around harm reduction and dispelling myths about opioid abuse & treatment. However, the present situation has altered our immediate concerns. Our...
by RxSafe Marin | Feb 3, 2020 | News, Opioid Epidemic
Earlier this month Medpage Today (1) featured an article on Precision Medicine that called for modifying the over-reliance on opioids to manage pain in favor of non-pharmaceutical approaches that reduce the risk of addiction and its consequences. The article proposed...
by RxSafe Marin | Jan 31, 2020 | News, Opioid Epidemic
In 2019, there were 13 fentanyl-related overdose deaths in Marin County, more than all prior years combined.Similar increases are being seen regionally. Overdose victims may have been unaware of the emergence of fentanyl-laced compounds in the Bay Area drug supply and...
by RxSafe Marin | Jan 28, 2020 | Events, News
RxSafe is working with Behavioral Health and Recovery Services, Marin County Office of Education, Tamalpais Union High School District Wellness and BluePath Health on a needs assessment, funded by the California Department of Health Care Services’ Youth Opioid...
by RxSafe Marin | Dec 17, 2019 | News, Opioid Epidemic
Redwood High’s Morgan Salzer has put together an informative and defiant piece in their school paper in response to the death of a former student, Trevor Leopold. While deaths and overdoses from prescription pills have fallen in recent years due to various efforts of...
by RxSafe Marin | Dec 2, 2019 | Events, News
MarinHealth Medical Center (formerly Marin General Hospital) has joined a statewide movement to initiate treatment in the emergency department for people identified with opioid use disorder One of the most important predictors of overdose death is a prior non-fatal...
