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Marietta Police to start ASSIST team to fight opioid crisis

Marietta Police to start ASSIST team to fight opioid crisis

Marietta Police to start ASSIST team to fight opioid crisis

. The ASSIST Team will receive alerts whenever the police, fire or Metro ambulance service revive an individual using Narcan.

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Alleged drug dealer charged with murder after man dies from overdose

Police said they found text messages from the victim, asking to purchase heroin from Thornton.

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Cobb receives grant to fight opioid epidemic

The hope the money help improve investigations.

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This is what President Trump's motorcade looked like rolling through Atlanta

It stopped all traffic in one direction on one of the city's busiest roadways.

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Suspected overdose death hits 'The Triangle' as President Trump discusses the opioid crisis in Atlanta

'I'm just tired of losing friends. It's terrible to see your friends die,' then 21-year-old Dustin Daigle explained in 11Alive's digital episodic investigation, 'The Triangle.'

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The Trumps attend summit in Atlanta about opioid crisis

The president vowed to end the crisis.

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Suspected overdose death hits 'The Triangle' as President Trump discusses the opioid crisis in Atlanta

In 2016, Dustin Daigle was trying to start over. He was six months clean from heroin and willing to talk to 11Alive about eight friends he recently lost to the opioid crisis.

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President Trump vows to keep fighting opioids 'until our job is done' at Atlanta summit

"My administration is deploying every resource at our disposal to empower you, to support you and to fight right by your side," Trump said. "We will not solve this epidemic overnight but we will stop. ... We will never stop until our job is done."

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Report: Americans are now more likely to die of an opioid overdose than a vehicle accident

According to the report, Americans now have a 1 in 96 lifetime chance of dying from an opioid overdose.

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Georgia attorney general files lawsuit against opioid manufacturers, distributors

“No Georgia community is a stranger to the devastating effects of the opioid crisis,” said Carr in a news release.

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GBI releases list of Georgia counties with the highest opioids use

The data was compiled through data taken from law enforcement seizures that were tested by the crime labs since May 22, 2018, from 3,954 different drug cases.

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'Broke his arm to get more prescription opioids': New W.H. ad features Atlanta man's story

The campaign is a partnership between the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and the Truth Initiative.

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Bill Clinton on opioid crisis: We should 'squeeze it until it's gone'

"If there is one thing in this country that we should be able to do together – without any partisan rancor, it should be to take this thing by the throat and squeeze it until it's gone," said Bill Clinton, speaking of the opioid crisis.

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Georgia 'opioid vultures' bill goes to House

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A&E's 'Intervention' goes into the Triangle

In the latest season of the show, "Intervention's" team spent 90 days in Cobb County and the surrounding area north of Atlanta.

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The Triangle is growing: The full investigation

Young people are still dying, and not just in our wealthy suburbs

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