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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Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden!
Yes, it’s horrifying to read about the exploits of addicts in the grip of addiction — it’s horrifying for many of them, too — but is it something we should use against them, for purely political advantage?
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Captagon revisited
Today, the making and distributing of Captagon pills accounts for 90% or more of the foreign currency in Syrian government coffers, and $57 billion in annual revenue– far beyond the scope of Mexican cartels.
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Scamming Medicaid
The so-called sober homes turned out to be dilapidated houses in and around Phoenix, offering little or nothing in the way of services and featuring plenty of drug use– even trafficking. All paid for by Medicaid, to the tune of hundreds of millions in Federal funds.
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Too Much Ganja
Smaller vendors and ‘boutique’ pot businesses, including many that are minority-owned, will be forced to sell up to a larger firm or shut their doors entirely.
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About that Adderall shortage
So in addition to the upsurge in prescribing via telehealth, our current shortage relates to far more frequent use of the medication to treat the adult variant of ADHD.
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He Took Bribes
Everyone involved seems to expect further charges to emerge, against other defendants for similar activities involving the sale of political influence.
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Ayahuasca on the Brain
When the trip ends, the writer acknowledges, the user may be “…throwing up or having trouble at the other end.”
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In The House of Shrooms
Also, one of the local rags had a few Shroom House products tested and discovered, to no one’s surprise, that some had been made from synthetics. Not the ‘real thing’, after all.
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What color is your fentanyl?
The President went on to insist that Mexican-made fentanyl pills only came in blue–
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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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Update on Pot & Pain
Non-drug remedies do tend to require considerably more effort than simply firing up a vape pen or chewing an edible. Medications are popular precisely because they take effect so quickly and are less likely to interrupt our busy lifestyle.
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Quick Update– Opioids & Something New
It appears that the presence of other drugs in the fentanyl and heroin currently flooding our streets has made naloxone, the opioid antagonist that is our primary weapon against OD fatalities, far less likely to be effective.
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