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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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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...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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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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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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…in the addiction field we continually encounter people who are very resistant to evidence. To the point where they simply cannot perceive certain facts about themselves and their lives.
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…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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But Russians (again like Americans) tend to view the liquor store as an essential business.
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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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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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Typically, the researchers report, an undercounted fatality would be a white female between the ages of 30 and 60.
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Advertising is vulnerable to abuse. Rules are few and easy to circumvent.
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Don’t chains have quality control mechanisms to alert headquarters to abnormal patterns in prescription use?
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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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