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British Columbia Epidemiologist Calls For Harm Reduction Strategy That Can Save Lives Now In Opioid Epidemic
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“It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way,” Says Speaker In a compelling TEDMED talk made available online this month, the executive director of British Columbia’s Center for Disease Control has made the case for acting effectively now to address the opioid epidemic. Calling the epidemic a true public health emergency, epidemiologist Mark Tyndall says a harm reduction strategy which provides a clean dry space with fresh needles surrounded by people who care is the appropriate response and the first step in truly dealing with the epidemic.
Tyndall calls the scale of the problem “unbelievable” with some 54,000 deaths in the United States alone in 2016 and drug related deaths now the leading cause of death for persons between the ages of 20-50 years old. Experience Tyndall first encountered the drug problem some 20 years ago in Vancouver and saw first hand the benefits conferred by creating a supervised injection site for drug
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Death Likely From Drowning, According To Police
April 2018
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Missing CDC Epidemiologist Found In the Chattahoochee River The body of CDC epidemiologist Tim Cunningham was found in early April in a river near his home. Cunningham had been missing for several weeks and his body was found in an inaccessible area of the Chattahoochee River about four miles from his home.
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Autopsy reports describe drowning as the most likely cause of death with no signs of trauma or evidence of underlying medical conditions. - Missing cont'd on page 2 Volume Thirty Nine
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