Habersham deputy uses training to save drug overdose victim

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Habersham deputy uses training to save drug overdose victim

Habersham County Deputy Sheriff Stephanie Bennett is credited with using Naloxone (narcan) to save the life of a heroin overdose victim on Dec. 30. Related Articles Habersham authorities seek info on missing womanHabersham S.O. warns of vehicle unlock scamSheriff’s K-9 Rex remembered as ‘one of a kind’Bullying led to Banks County bomb threat   Contact Editor […]

MAG Foundation issues naloxone reminder

The MAG Foundation is reminding physicians that Georgia’s 9-1-1 Medical Amnesty law allows them to prescribe standing orders of naloxone. Naloxone is an effective, non-addictive prescription medication that reverses the effects of opioid drug overdoses. Under the 9-1-1 Medical Amnesty Law, a unit dose of naloxone can be delivered on an intranasal or intramuscular basis. […]

Waycross area physicians invited to Rx drug disposal box dedication

The MAG Foundation is encouraging physicians in southeast Georgia to attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony that will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 6 – when the Okefenokee Medical Society will donate a prescription drug disposal box to the Waycross Police Department, which is located at 512 Oak Street. The donation, made possible by […]

MAG Foundation gets $280K+ to fight Rx drug abuse

The leadership group that accepted the $281,881 check for ‘Project DAN’ on October 1 were from left: MAG Foundation President Jack Chapman, M.D., ‘Think About It’ Community Chairman Dallas Gay, Clinical Chairman Tennent Slack, M.D. and MAG President Manoj Shah, M.D. The Northeast Georgia Medical Center Foundation hosted an October 1 golf tournament that raised […]

The Medical Center Foundation golf tournament to benefit the MAG Foundation in 2015

The Medical Center Foundation in Gainesville has announced that it will donate the proceeds from its golf tournament in 2015 to the Medical Association of Georgia Foundation’s (MAG Foundation) ‘Think About It’ campaign to reduce prescription drug abuse. The ‘Medical Center Open’ raised $250,000 in 2014. “The MAG Foundation is proud and honored to receive […]

Georgia’s No. 1 prescription: hydrocodone (features ‘Think About It’ co-chair Tennent Slack, M.D.)

Hydrocodone-acetaminophen, a prescription painkiller known by such brand names as Vicodin, Norco and Lortab, was dispensed 1.2 million times to Medicare patients in Georgia in 2012, according to a new examination of federal records. ProPublica.org, the investigative journalism website, analyzed more than a billion prescriptions covered by Medicare nationwide in 2012, tracking the most common […]

Hydrocodone combination product to become Schedule II on October 6

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has announced that it has finalized its rule to reschedule hydrocodone combination products (HCP) from Schedule III status to Schedule II status. DEA says the rule will become effective on October 6, 2014. The American Medical Association says that, “The prescriptions for HCPs that are issued before October 6, […]

We’re Not Gonna Take It Video Contest

While the vast majority of high school students in Georgia have not misused or abused prescription (Rx) drugs, there is another reality: there are still many who have. An estimated 10% of young adults in Georgia misuse or abuse Rx drugs every year, and we are asking you to say, “We’re not gonna take it” […]

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