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Alaska EMS Agencies Seeing Dramatic Surge in Heroin Overdoses

05/17/2017

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Since May 1 responders in Anchorage have used naloxone to revive people from suspected overdoses 34 times.

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05/17/2017

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Alaska Patient Goes to ER Twice for Severe Pain, Dies After Being Left Untreated

05/05/2017

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Doctors sent a woman home from the ER twice with prescription painkillers, missing the septic infection that was killing her.

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05/05/2017

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Heroin Overdose Calls Rising in Alaska

11/15/2015

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In Anchorage alone, firefighters administered 352 doses of Narcan last year.

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11/15/2015

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Air National Guard evacuates sick baby from Western Alaska village

04/14/2014

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April 14--A critically ill newborn was evacuated from a Western Alaska village by an Alaska Air National Guard crew Saturday after a private air ambulance couldn't get to the village because of weather and runway restrictions. The...

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04/14/2014

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Horrific Injury Leads to $4.5M Judgement Against Alaska School District

04/06/2014

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When a kindergartner landed face-first in a clump of pine shrubs, one of the sticks penetrated his eye socket, jabbing the frontal lobe of his brain.

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04/06/2014

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Alaska School Nurses on Front Line of Health Care

12/15/2013

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As busy as they are, nurses aren't immune from budget cuts at a time when the Anchorage School District must slash $49 million over the next two years.

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12/15/2013

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Alaska Newborn Safe Surrender Law Never Used

10/29/2013

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More than five years after the "Safe Surrender For Infants Act" became law, no one has used it to give up a baby.

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10/29/2013

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Deadly Drug Conspiracy That Was Run From Prisons Flooded Rural Alaska With Fentanyl, Prosecutors Say

11/08/2023

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From a prison cell in California, federal prosecutors allege a 56-year-old inmate directed an Alaska drug trafficking ring that in recent years smuggled huge quantities of fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine through the state.

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11/08/2023

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