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 15, 2019 | Events
Fred Mayer worked tirelessly for well over a half-century to advance public health and was known in the United States as the Guru for pharmacists who work to build healthy communities. For 35 years, Fred owned the Sausalito Pharmacy and became a prominent fixture in...
by RxSafe Marin | Dec 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
Haylea Hannah is an epidemiologist on a mission to better understand barriers to addiction treatment. As an epidemiology fellow with Marin HHS, Haylea was mentored by Dr. Matt Willis and Rochelle Eremen and was integral to building RxSafe Marin’s data-driven...
by RxSafe Marin | Dec 7, 2019 | California, Events
RxSafe Marin is sustained partly through grant funding. The coalition is fortunate to be part of the California Opioid Safety Network (COSN), which provides the most current opioid information and tools to strengthen our work with other coalitions statewide. The last...
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...
by RxSafe Marin | Nov 29, 2019 | Opioid Epidemic, Outreach
The next National Prescription Drug Take Back-Day will be April 25, 2020. National Take-Back Day is a safe, convenient, and responsible way to dispose of unused or expired prescription drugs. The October 2019 Take Back Day brought in 882,919 pounds (almost 442...
by RxSafe Marin | Nov 20, 2019 | California, Opioid Epidemic
In September the California Department of Public Health announced that it would be allocating up to $1.5 million dollars annually to organizations that receive approval through their application process. The term of the grant is expected to be 32 months and is...
by RxSafe Marin | Nov 18, 2019 | Opioid Epidemic, Outreach
Many in the community may already be aware of the scourge Fentanyl has become. This synthetic opioid is more deadly than any other opioid and is the poster child for this third wave of America’s Opioid Epidemic. Knowledge is power. RxSafe Marin is encouraging...
by RxSafe Marin | Nov 15, 2019 | Events, Opioid Epidemic
Thank you to the hundreds of parents, students and community members who joined us at Dominican University of California and livestream locations throughout Marin on October 16, 2019. We were greatly honored to co-sponsor this important conversation with Nic and David...
by RxSafe Marin | Nov 7, 2019 | Events, Outreach
RxSafe Marin installed opioid awareness altars called ofrendas at the Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead celebrations in Petaluma and San Francisco. Día de los Muertos is a Mexican holiday that began some 3,000 years ago and is celebrated throughout Mexico and by...
