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Field of 50,000 flags marks grim death toll from Canada’s opioid crisis
B.C. artist Ron Kerr has set up the installation four times – and every time, the number of flags representing the lives lost grows ...
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Woman receives award at MiraVista in Holyoke for spreading overdose awareness
There’s a new license plate option in Massachusetts that helps spread overdose awareness. This comes just one day after the ...
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50,000 flags installed in Campbell River to remember victims of opioid crisis
The blue, purple and white flags represent men, boys, women and girls who have died since the opioid crisis was declared in 2016.
Viatris to pay up to $335 million to resolve opioid-related claims
(Reuters) -Viatris said on Monday it would pay up to $335 million over nine years as part of a nationwide settlement to ...
Hit hard by opioid crisis, Black patients further hurt by barriers to care
Purple flags, representing the nearly 300 Mecklenburg County residents who died of opioid overdose in 2023, fluttered in the ...
Now hit hard by opioid crisis, Black patients run up against barriers to care
The opioid crisis was largely confined to rural Whites at the beginning but now is crushing the Black community. Yet help has not followed for Black patients.
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The 'super emotional' reason why this Natick woman is running the Boston Marathon
COUNTDOWN ARRIVES IN NATICK. EVERY YEAR THIS LAWN GETS COVERED IN PURPLE FLAGS TO COMMEMORATE THOSE LIVES LOST TO OPIOID ABUSE, AND IT’S SET UP BY AN ORGANIZATION HERE IN TOWN THAT RELIES ON ...