Now what do we do about fentanyl?
...much of the fentanyl in circulation is in the form of an additive to some other drug-- cocaine, for instance, or methamphetamine, or one of the many sedatives.
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The Drug Epidemic to Come
On a recent show, comedian John Oliver addressed the prospect of a future virus pandemic that...
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Really Hardcore
Anyway, it’s clear from this and a host of other examples that for some offenders at least, simple incarceration is never enough.
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Medicaid Expands – Finally
If you work in public health, you can breathe a sigh of relief. Now when people in need show up, whether it’s at the clinic, in the ER, or in the hospital, there are funds to help defray the cost.
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Another “Resurgence”
…the preoccupation with overdose death rates inadvertently distracted the public from a much larger and more enduring medical and social problem: an expanding population of persons with chronic Substance Use Disorders (SUDs).
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Russian Revival
But Russians (again like Americans) tend to view the liquor store as an essential business.
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Lessons Not Learned
Treatment staff know from their long experience that someone with a severe substance problem who insists on relying solely on willpower is very likely to fail.
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Opioids in the Era of Covid-19
I don’t think anybody, including me, realized 7 or 8 years ago just how intimately involved Big Pharma and its offshoots were in the phenomenal escalation of drug abuse in West Virginia.
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Undercounted
Typically, the researchers report, an undercounted fatality would be a white female between the ages of 30 and 60.
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The Ad Biz
Advertising is vulnerable to abuse. Rules are few and easy to circumvent.
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Rogue Pharmacies
Don’t chains have quality control mechanisms to alert headquarters to abnormal patterns in prescription use?
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Can Legal Cannabis Fix Vaping Illness?
Legalization solves problems related to the legal status of a drug, but has far less impact on the problems related to the nature of the substance itself.
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