by RxSafe Marin | Aug 21, 2019 | News
Data over 5 years shows progress of RxSafe Marin and community partners Opioid prescribing in Marin has decreased 48 percent since 2014, when safe prescribing was made a local public health priority. In 2013, 39 Marin County residents died from overdoses, mostly due...
by RxSafe Marin | Apr 16, 2019 | News, Public Health Advisory
To prevent misuse and keep medications from entering our waterways, please dispose of unused prescription and over-the-counter medications responsibly. Flushing unused or expired medications down the sink or toilet can pollute the environment. Learn more at...
by RxSafe Marin | Apr 7, 2019 | News
This Podcast with Dr. Matt Willis talks about the Opioid Epidemic in Marin. 11,300,413 opioid pills were prescribed in Marin County last year alone. That’s roughly 44 pills for every man, woman, and child in Marin. It’s clear that even here, in one of the nation’s...
by RxSafe Marin | Jan 23, 2019 | California, Drug and Needle Disposal, Naloxone, News, Opioid Epidemic, Public Health Advisory
A recent surge in fentanyl overdoses in Marin County and beyond has prompted an urgent local initiative to make the antidote drug naloxone more available to the public through pharmacies. Dr. Jeff DeVido of Marin County Health and Human Services holds up an intranasal...
by RxSafe Marin | Jan 16, 2019 | News, Opioid Epidemic
Marin Public Health Officer Dr. Matt Willis moderated a panel with Kat DeBurgh, Executive Director of Health Officers Association of California; Dough Kobold, Executive Director of California Product Stewardship Council; and Jeffrey DeVido, Chief of Addiction Services...
by RxSafe Marin | Jan 9, 2019 | News, Opioid Epidemic
“The California medical board is taking action against a Marin physician indicted on federal drug charges in Pennsylvania. Paul Michael Hoover is charged with 15 counts alleging oxycodone distribution; conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, methadone and oxycodone;...
