Mad About Methadone
…there are now some 300,000 Americans on methadone maintenance, and I’m assuming many of them will not want to transition to buprenorphine.
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Author: C. Scott McMillin
A Death in Rehab
Programs that treat people with significant addiction histories are always vulnerable to incidents such as this. It would be called a ‘sentinel event’, meaning one that resulted in death (or near-death).
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ODs in NYC
Which brings us to the issue of Supervised Injection Sites (SIS). An outbreak such as the one in New York is the strongest argument for these centers.
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Flavor Flav’s New Flavor
…nowadays Flavor Flav is repping the sober life. Calling on today’s rap artists to “do better when it comes to depicting drug use in their lyrics.”
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Harm Reduction x3
Because such approaches may not aim to get people off drugs – in some ways, it’s an acknowledgment that they probably won’t, regardless of our efforts – such programs can face opposition.
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