An Odd Situation Indeed
"...Patients who test negative, and their clinicians, may have a false sense of security about use of opioids…” Something that we know from long, long experience can be dangerous.
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Alcohol may be the oldest. New ones are being invented every day. There are thousands, and keeping track of what they are and what they do isn’t easy.
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Gas Station Heroin, Again
I can’t help thinking that unintentional ODs would be fairly common, since the recommended doses on the product label would be, well, unreliable.
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Ancestry of Alcohol
It’s easy to understand how primates and other animals discovered fermentation — it happens naturally when fruit is left to lay around.
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Adventures in Shrooming
What is the psilocybin content of any particular dried mushroom? Does anybody know?
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Hardcore, once more
Incarceration alone is almost never very effective— in fact, drinking may well resume the day the offender is released.
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Change, at Ground Level
…real progress has been made — especially with the most challenging population, the very chronic, relapsing, “street” drug user.
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A Student of Psychedelics…
That sounds expensive and time-consuming, which would make it less attractive to third-party payers such as insurance companies.
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A Visit to Injection Central
Target client for these operations is the chronic daily user, mostly but not exclusively of opioids, and that’s a difficult population for such programs to work with.
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The Best Laid Plans…
A user could count on a better exchange rate for the Safer Supply medication, whether in cash or illicit heroin, fentanyl, whatever.
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About those prescribed stimulants…
…new data suggest that even those who think they are using their stimulant medications as directed may be at risk of substance use disorder
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Sad, But Also True
She wasn’t being entirely altruistic– she did charge participants a cool five hundred dollars apiece– but it’s reasonable to assume that she meant well, with no intent to cause harm.
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“It was never a problem”
That’s important in a treatment context, because a history of multiple drug use means they will be tempted to focus on one substance — their “drug of choice”, whatever they may feel that is — while minimizing the importance of the others.
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Another wave of OD?
“Overdose deaths from carfentanil…[increased] from 29 between January and June 2023 to 238 in that same period in 2024.” That’s a heck of a year-over-year increase, although it still represents only a small percentage of total fatalities.
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