“Omar coming”
Michael K. Williams’ death came years later, but was equally unglamorous. Unintentional, the result of a combination of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and p-fluorofentanyl, an analog most people have never heard of.
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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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Old Diseases Made New
When we fail to provide adequate treatment for substance disorders, we pay a price in terms of overall public health.
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Fentanyl Goes West
It’s Business 101, for illegal as well as legal enterprises.
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Vaping Disease
We already know there’s a strong business link between vaping and Big Tobacco.
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Word of Warning
Cannabis doesn’t replace opioids the way methadone or buprenorphine do. There’s no antagonist effect as with naloxone or naltrexone.
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Stimulants Today
The list of deaths from the practice is long and oddly prestigious, featuring celebs such as John Belushi and Chris Farley, among many others.
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Big City Opioids
Now, with the introduction of fentanyl and carfentanil, the decision to inject heroin or cocaine can easily result in a fatality.
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Synergism Strikes
Then there are the users who seek to overcome their own elevated tolerance, which interferes with ordinary drug-taking, by simultaneously consuming a second substance of the same general effect
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Dark Fentanyl
Drug dealers at the higher levels of the marketplace are much like other businesspeople in their natural aversion to bad publicity.
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Dayton Gets Results
We should remember that Ohio’s Republican governor had to go against the wishes of many in his own party in order to achieve this.
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In the News: Polypharmacy and Tom Petty
It’s the result of a problem in medicine that’s been going on since before I ever started working in the field. The drugs have changed, but the results haven’t.
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Secretary for Drug Crises?
I thought that blue ribbon commission did a pretty good job with its 60 recommendations, but I haven’t seen much subsequent action, have you?
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