Some Downward Progress
Many older folks turn to cannabis to self-medicate the pain and sleep problems that can plague old age. As they become dependent on cannabis, we could see the emergence of more health-related problems there.
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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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…they may have purchased what they believe to be cocaine, or methamphetamine, or heroin, any or all of which may have been ‘cut’ with fentanyl or another uber-potent synthetic opioid, in sufficient quantity to overcome their tolerance and put them in imminent danger of death.
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Back in Court — Pill Mill edition
A lone physician was found to have prescribed more than 500,000 doses of prescription opioids to assorted patients in little more than two years of medical practice.
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Fatal for These Fans
In the absence of much factual information, wild theories have proliferated.
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Another Try at a Cannabis Test
If the current versions of the saliva test hold up to regular use throughout the year long trial, it’s likely state government will make their use permanent.
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Trouble, Spanish-style
There has been speculation that something about people from the UK makes them especially vulnerable to agranulocytosis.
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Two Ketamine Fatalities
“During our training, we were told numerous times that this is a safe, effective drug,” one of the two testified.
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Sacklers Meet Supremes
After all, though P-P folded, and billions were lost, in the end the owners managed to get away with the bulk of their fortune, and ultimately to avoid the most serious consequences of their actions.
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Celebs Getting Sober
These could be interpreted as signs that someone is in the Action stage of change. That’s not a bad place to be, provided you keep at it and don’t give up.
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A Deputy and a Drug Trafficker
But, his lawyer reminds us, we shouldn’t forget that his client is ‘only’ 25 years old. Not only that, the client reportedly has assured his attorney that “…I promise you, I’m not a bad person.”
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Thieves of Hope
Their greed led them to rob these women of what they had managed to gain a bit of in the first place: hope, for a better life.
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Flooded with Fakes
The DEA has committed to a public information campaign around the theme of “one pill can kill”. Although that’s technically true, I don’t know how much impact it will have on the target audience.
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Narcan in Da House
Yes, some of the corporations who helped fuel the opioid overdose epidemic will now be able to profit from selling us an important part of the solution
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