A Visit to Injection Central
Target client for these operations is the chronic daily user, mostly but not exclusively of opioids, and that’s a difficult population for such programs to work with.
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What About Safe Injection Sites?
They’ve been shown to reduce the likelihood of an overdose fatality, but also to reduce the risk of disease and disease transmission; increase access to needed services…and to some extent, reduce criminal conduct.
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Vaping for Good Health?
Marketed as supplements, they’re excused from having to inform us. And they don’t.
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High Potency THC – an update
“choosing to use lower-potency cannabis products could help to make cannabis use safer and offers a sensible strategy for harm reduction.”
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A Problem In Prescribing — Part 2
I did ask a veteran ER physician for one suggestion that he felt would actually help both doctor and patient in the ER setting. His answer: Peer Support services.
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No More Nicotine?
CDC reports that tobacco use is “…the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the U.S.” Nothing else comes close…
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Getting Sober. And Not Getting Sober.
Research into long-term recovery has been prominent in the past — why not revive it?
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An Update on Needle Exchange
The roots of opposition are on an emotional level that doesn’t readily respond to the logic of science. The danger is that the public will be persuaded and take actions that are ultimately not in their own best interests.
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In the News: Do Safe Injection Sites Work?
That’s not a large percent of the user population, but it’s among the sickest. That along might be enough to justify the investment; I’m sure a number of lives have been saved along the way.
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Needle Exchange Backlash
Nonetheless, in most instances it’s an a priori resistance rooted in fear, rather than legitimate objections.
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Naltrexone versus Opioids
Not surprisingly, the vast majority of patients who drop out or otherwise leave maintenance programs return to heroin at rates of 80% or higher.
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In the News: Harm Reduction in West Virginia
He compares the patients he treats, who are often homeless, to “outcasts” and ‘lepers”, who have been “derided, despised, and marginalized.”
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Methadone Maintenance and Crime
So even if drug use decreases, and clients continue on methadone, they don’t necessarily make the other much-desired (by society) changes — such as giving up crime.
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