Dr. William Goldman, medical director of the Addiction Services Program at Akron Children’s, helps make sense of what parents are hearing about rainbow fentanyl. What is fentanyl? When we talk about the fentanyl, specifically with what we’re seeing in our communities, first, it’s not what we call medical grade. It hasn’t gone through the process […]
Why You Need to Turn in Unused Drugs, Where to Take Them
The statistics around drug deaths here in Ohio are staggering – 8 Ohioans die each day from overdoses, reports the Ohio Department of Health. And those numbers aren’t likely to shrink anytime soon. In particular, heroin addiction has reached epidemic proportions. More recently, heroin laced with fentanyl – which makes the drug’s effect about 100 […]
