OD Epidemic Nearing an End?
I couldn’t help noticing: The lack of references to the effectiveness of interdiction and law-enforcement.
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by C. Scott McMillin | May 19, 2025 | Public Health | 0 |
I couldn’t help noticing: The lack of references to the effectiveness of interdiction and law-enforcement.
by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 20, 2025 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 19, 2024 | In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 16, 2024 | Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 11, 2024 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 2, 2024 | Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 15, 2024 | Addiction | 0 |
…it’s a story I must have heard a thousand times from people in treatment. Drug addicts getting together to form a mutual ‘support system’ for drug use.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 29, 2024 | Public Health | 0 |
Some less good news: Law enforcement sees evidence of aggressive efforts by drug cartels to establish supply lines and operations within the US.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jun 10, 2024 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
It’s gained acceptance as a remedy for a host of mental health problems, including major disorders.
That’s in spite of the fact that the FDA has yet to approve the drug for the treatment of any psychiatric condition.
by C. Scott McMillin | Feb 19, 2024 | In the News | 0 |
In the absence of much factual information, wild theories have proliferated.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 11, 2024 | In the News | 0 |
“During our training, we were told numerous times that this is a safe, effective drug,” one of the two testified.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 6, 2023 | Addiction | 0 |
If we conceive of addiction as a disease, Perry would represent those most vulnerable to it. Very little actual exposure to substances would be enough to trigger that pathology.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 2, 2023 | Public Health | 0 |
CDC claims that 1 in 5 drug overdoses in 2020 – or 20% — involved people in those two sectors alone. Something to think about.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 16, 2023 | Addiction | 0 |
Extra naloxone doses were required to lift the victim out of a coma and lower the risk of respiratory arrest and death. Translation: New barriers to saving lives in the street. And more fatalities.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Aug 24, 2023 | Treatment | 0 |
Do you want them here with us, in range of immediate help? Or lying dead in the bathroom of your local fast-food joint?
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Aug 7, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
…the DEA tried to restrict kratom back in 2016 but the public outcry led them to rescind those restrictions.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 24, 2023 | In the News | 0 |
…it appears that chain pharmacists did in fact become concerned about the size or source of some of the opioid prescriptions written during this period. They reported it to their bosses at Corporate and were instructed to go ahead and fill the scripts anyway.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 20, 2023 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
Which brings us to the issue of Supervised Injection Sites (SIS). An outbreak such as the one in New York is the strongest argument for these centers.
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