PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE OP-ED: …Heroin and opioid overdose are the leading cause of accidental death in Pennsylvania, killing more individuals than motor vehicle accidents. What is the attorney general’s office, with one of the largest anti-narcotics forces nationwide, doing to address the problem?
It is partnering with local, state and federal agencies on numerous initiatives, such as take-back programs to dispose of unused medications, training to prevent the diversion of prescription drugs into the illegal market, informing medical professionals about opioid prescription guidelines, tracking the deployment of the anti-overdose drug naloxone and attempting to collect overdose death data from Pennsylvania’s 67 counties…
These are just some of the projects that are constantly moving forward. The attorney general’s office under Kathleen Kane is doing things it has never done before, things attorneys said could not be done. Yet all I read in the news is that the attorney general and her office are dysfunctional… (more)
