Emergency rules extended to ensure Michiganders have access to naloxone to combat opioid addiction

By Marge Sorge on 11/27/2017   All Neighborhoods, Building Healthy Communities, City Health, Macomb County, Wayne County  

There is an opioid crisis in Michigan and emergency rules have been extended to get the medication naloxone to help save the lives of those addicted. From 1999 to 2016, the total number of overdose deaths involving any type of opioid increased more than 17 times in Michigan, from 99 to 1,689, according to the […]