Taking the podium at the McHenry County State of Addiction annual meeting, Sgt. Adam Carson said he asks two questions when people are arrested on drug-related offenses. The first is: “How old were you when you started using drugs?” The second: “What is the first drug you tried?” The response to the second question, the […]
Staff Report news@thewoodstockindepent.com McHenry County Mental Health Board, in collaboration with the McHenry County Suicide Prevention Task Force, will host the sixth annual Suicide Prevention & Mental Health Recovery Conference from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9, at McHenry County College. Keynote speaker will be Sally Spencer-Thomas, a clinical psychologist, who will present […]
Woodstock police officers will begin carrying an emergency antidote for opioid overdoses before the end of the year, Police Chief John Lieb said. Each of the Woodstock Police Department’s sworn officers soon will be issued naloxone, also known by its trade name, Narcan. The nasal spray temporarily blocks opioid receptors in the brain and nervous […]
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