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Opioids

Vancouver Public Schools allows students and staff to carry Narcan and other overdose reversal medications

February 13, 2025, 6:08am Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive

Students and staff at Vancouver schools can now carry naloxone and other life-saving overdose reversal medications. Read story

WA sees spike in new chemicals in street drugs, fentanyl

January 12, 2025, 6:05am Courts & Crime

The landscape of street drugs looked a lot different when University of Washington research professor Caleb Banta-Green began his career in drug epidemiology more than 20 years ago. There were… Read story

LEADOPTION Great Prevention Club members senior Zamyrah Scott, 17, left, and junior Emaunie Bush, 16, look on as prevention counselor Alizz Quarles shows off her sweatshirt during a meeting at Fort Vancouver High School.

Great Prevention Club expands substance use prevention work at Fort Vancouver High School

LEADOPTION Great Prevention Club members senior Zamyrah Scott, 17, left, and junior Emaunie Bush, 16, look on as prevention counselor Alizz Quarles shows off her sweatshirt during a meeting at Fort Vancouver High School.

November 15, 2024, 6:05am Clark County Health

In a dimly lit room tucked away off one of the hallways at Fort Vancouver High School, two students filled small decorated pots with planting soil and tulip bulbs. They were planting promises, too. Read story

Former Republican U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert, left, and Democratic Attorney General Bob Ferguson are running for Washington governor in 2024.

How WA governor candidates would combat the fentanyl crisis

Former Republican U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert, left, and Democratic Attorney General Bob Ferguson are running for Washington governor in 2024.

October 24, 2024, 7:44am Election

In the race for Washington governor, Democrat Bob Ferguson has touted more than $1 billion he’s won as attorney general to fight the fentanyl crisis. Read story

Firefighter-paramedic Connor Danielson hands car keys to mental health professional Janie Wadiak on Wednesday, while Danielson takes a call at Clark-Cowlitz Fire Rescue Station 21 in Ridgefield. The pair work as part of the Clark-Cowlitz Cares Team that can respond to community members experiencing crises.

First responders in Clark County have a new tool to fight opioid addiction after overdoses

Firefighter-paramedic Connor Danielson hands car keys to mental health professional Janie Wadiak on Wednesday, while Danielson takes a call at Clark-Cowlitz Fire Rescue Station 21 in Ridgefield. The pair work as part of the Clark-Cowlitz Cares Team that can respond to community members experiencing crises.

October 21, 2024, 6:10am Clark County News

First responders in Clark County can now administer a medication to treat opioid-use disorder through a statewide pilot program. Read story

AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File Fentanyl test strips, which can detect the presence of fentanyl in drugs, are coming to Clark College and Washington State University Vancouver this fall under a new state law.

Fentanyl test strips coming to Clark County college campuses as overdose deaths spike

AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File Fentanyl test strips, which can detect the presence of fentanyl in drugs, are coming to Clark College and Washington State University Vancouver this fall under a new state law.

September 13, 2024, 6:06am Clark County Health

Fentanyl test strips are coming to Washington State University Vancouver and Clark College campuses this fall, as mandated by a new state law. Read story

Nicole Hamberger, community engagement specialist for Southwest Washington Accountable Community of Health, demonstrates how to inject naloxone at the Sept. 2 Hands Across the Bridge event in downtown Vancouver.

‘Naloxone saves lives’: Everyone should learn to give the overdose-reversing drug, says Clark County Public Health

Nicole Hamberger, community engagement specialist for Southwest Washington Accountable Community of Health, demonstrates how to inject naloxone at the Sept. 2 Hands Across the Bridge event in downtown Vancouver.

September 10, 2024, 6:05am Clark County Health

Every 11 minutes someone in America dies from an opioid overdose. But there is a solution, public health officials say: Carry naloxone, even if you don’t think you know anyone who uses opioids. Read story

2024 Hands Across The Bridge annual event, which starts at Esther Short Park and eventually heads to the I-5 Bridge where attendees hold hands the entire length of the bridge.

Hands Across the Bridge celebrates recovery from addiction

2024 Hands Across The Bridge annual event, which starts at Esther Short Park and eventually heads to the I-5 Bridge where attendees hold hands the entire length of the bridge.

September 2, 2024, 4:19pm Clark County News

Years ago, Mable Clark put her hands together in prayer and begged on her knees for God to take her addiction away. Read story

Substance use disorder professional Amie-Jo Brassfield sits in her office where she meets with youth at the Cowlitz Indian Tribe Health and Human Services office in Hazel Dell. The tribe recently started offering behavioral health services to youth there.

Cowlitz tribe again offering youth addiction treatment in Hazel Dell, one of few places in the county that treats youth

Substance use disorder professional Amie-Jo Brassfield sits in her office where she meets with youth at the Cowlitz Indian Tribe Health and Human Services office in Hazel Dell. The tribe recently started offering behavioral health services to youth there.

August 14, 2024, 5:10pm Clark County Health

After a pause during the pandemic due to a lack of providers, the Cowlitz Indian Tribe now offers addiction treatment for youth at its Hazel Dell office. The clinic is one of few in Clark County that treats children and teenagers with substance use disorders. Read story

Rainbow fentanyl pills and powder come in a variety of colors, shapes and sizes.

‘We can’t idly stand by and let children be harmed’: Lawmakers want to expand drug endangerment law

Rainbow fentanyl pills and powder come in a variety of colors, shapes and sizes.

August 10, 2024, 6:14am Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive

In early May, Vancouver police responded to their second call of the day involving a young child believed to have overdosed from illicit drugs — this one, a 3-year-old girl on fentanyl. Before they arrived, her grandmother gave her naloxone, a drug used to counteract opioid overdoses. It took two… Read story