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International Award in Athens for its policies in drug overdose prevention and antidote

Athens Wins International Award for its Drug Overdose Prevention and Antidote Policies

Athens’ Mayor, Kostas Bakoyannis, has received one of five awards at the inaugural “Partnership for Healthy Cities” Summit ( PHC), for Athens efforts in the prevention of overdose in drug users and for in its inroads in making drug overdose antidote naloxone more readily available. “Naloxone can make the difference between life and death…this means that a mother who has naloxone at home can administer it and save her child,” he says.

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The “China Virus” is Not Greek

There is one obvious problem that some may see associated with this ‘solution’ which calls for using the letters of the Greek alphabet to name all of the variants of the global pandemic. The “China virus” as Trump so famously, and many say, so inappropriately named it, is not Greek either.