A Patch for Prevention?
I can imagine some users — not all, but more than a few — will make use of the patch to facilitate further unaccompanied fentanyl use, confident now that they won’t inadvertently overdose. And being surprised when they did.
Alcohol Tax Cut
...those users have fewer resources to pay for healthcare and legal problems that often result from more drinking. So who picks up the tab?
It seems that those who use drugs are no longer restricted to traditional methods such as smoking, snorting, injecting, etc.. Now they can simply chew, lick, or suck on an ordinary piece of paper that’s been soaked in liquid dope.
Paper has served as a delivery device for illicit drugs in the past, primarily LSD. But now the field of paper-borne substances has expanded to include opioids, sedatives, and stimulants. That’s due to a revolution in drug production that has yielded a host of new synthetics, produced by outlaw chemists for less than pennies on the dollar.
Earlier this year, The New York Times took a long look at what an influx of these new synthetics could do when they were able to infiltrate the Cook County (Chicago) Jail.
No Pills or Needles, Just Paper: How Deadly Drugs Are Changing
(Also archived here)
It’s a fascinating tale of the Jail administration’s struggle to understand how so many inmates were overdosing and dying from a substance they...
Paper has served as a delivery device for illicit drugs in the past, primarily LSD. But now the field of paper-borne substances has expanded to include opioids, sedatives, and stimulants. That’s due to a revolution in drug production that has yielded a host of new synthetics, produced by outlaw chemists for less than pennies on the dollar.
Earlier this year, The New York Times took a long look at what an influx of these new synthetics could do when they were able to infiltrate the Cook County (Chicago) Jail.
No Pills or Needles, Just Paper: How Deadly Drugs Are Changing
(Also archived here)
It’s a fascinating tale of the Jail administration’s struggle to understand how so many inmates were overdosing and dying from a substance they...
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A Patch for Prevention?
I can imagine some users — not all, but more than a few — will make use of the patch to facilitate further unaccompanied fentanyl use, confident now that they won’t inadvertently overdose. And being surprised when they did.
Those Troubling OD Statistics
In recent months, samples have been found with as much as 20% fentanyl content. It’s easy to see how this could increase both the total number of overdoses, and the percentage of victims who did not survive.
An Inside Look at Drug Court
Even today, the estimated cost for keeping someone under drug court supervision is in the range of $2500 to $4000 a year. Compare that to estimates of $20,000 to as high as $50,000 (in some expensive states), simply to maintain someone in a cell for the same period.
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Drugs on Paper
Worse yet, in addition to being difficult to track, it was cheap to make and many times the potency of the drugs with which they were familiar.
Who’s To Blame?
After all, the victim may well have self-administered the fatal dose, or even procured it on their own — thereby exercising what at least appears to most observers to be freedom of choice.
Drugs on Paper
Worse yet, in addition to being difficult to track, it was cheap to make and many times the potency of the drugs with which they were familiar.
What We Can Learn from Estonia
...the situation has improved, mostly because of renewed efforts on the demand side. Estonia adopted harm reduction strategies used effectively in other countries, such as take-home naloxone; ready access to MAT; and efforts to destigmatize drug use and drug users.
The Storytellers
One young man explained that he avoided speaker meetings because the “drunkalogues” he heard triggered in him an awful craving for a drink.
Drugs in Rehab: Part 2
I was reminded that patients’ own goals can easily diverge from, or even directly contradict, the presumed goals of the professionals who treat them.
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A Young Gambler’s story
It’s a common misconception, that somehow repeated failures precede eventual success. They don’t.
Rage-baited
From a counseling standpoint, it’s a time when we ought to be advising patients to restrict their social media activity, at the very least to selected forums and sites that support recovery goals
A Young Gambler’s story
It’s a common misconception, that somehow repeated failures precede eventual success. They don’t.
Is This Recovery?
...there are other folks out there like these— pretending to sobriety yet still secretly using, and hoping to avoid the sort of trouble that haunted them in the past.
Officers in the House
...with law enforcement agencies taking on vastly different roles, planning and practicing our response appears more important than in the past.
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A Novel Approach
...the author, who grew up in and around the region, chose to use its earnings to found Higher Ground, a home for recovering women.
A Novel Approach
...the author, who grew up in and around the region, chose to use its earnings to found Higher Ground, a home for recovering women.
Diagnosing Cannabis Use Disorder: Updated
It certainly makes sense that if you suffer from a major mental illness, you should stay away from pot.
Video: Practical Advice on Prescription Painkiller Problems
People have abused opiates for 5,000 years. As much as medicine depends on them, they've always created problems for a percentage of users.
