Tracking the OD Epidemic
“These (victims) just crumple and collapse. Frequently they don't even inject the full syringe…"
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by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 4, 2022 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
“These (victims) just crumple and collapse. Frequently they don't even inject the full syringe…"
by C. Scott McMillin | Feb 21, 2022 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jan 17, 2022 | In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jan 6, 2022 | Addiction, Families, In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 4, 2021 | In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 27, 2021 | Public Health | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 30, 2021 | Public Health | 0 |
By the way, if you were wondering whether the issue will be co-opted into the ongoing partisan political debate, the answer is: oh, hell yes.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jun 14, 2021 | Recovery | 0 |
She probably felt Adderall didn’t count because it was prescribed. A common mistake.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 12, 2020 | In the News | 0 |
And like the opioid epidemic, the virus disproportionately harmed the disadvantaged and minorities among us.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Aug 27, 2020 | In the News, Public Health | 2 |
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.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 19, 2020 | Public Health | 0 |
Typically, the researchers report, an undercounted fatality would be a white female between the ages of 30 and 60.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 16, 2020 | Prevention, Public Policy | 0 |
When we fail to provide adequate treatment for substance disorders, we pay a price in terms of overall public health.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Sep 30, 2019 | Addictive Substances, Public Health | 0 |
It’s Business 101, for illegal as well as legal enterprises.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Sep 9, 2019 | In the News, Public Health | 0 |
We already know there’s a strong business link between vaping and Big Tobacco.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 1, 2019 | Public Health | 0 |
Cannabis doesn’t replace opioids the way methadone or buprenorphine do. There’s no antagonist effect as with naloxone or naltrexone.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jun 17, 2019 | Addictive Substances, Public Health | 0 |
The list of deaths from the practice is long and oddly prestigious, featuring celebs such as John Belushi and Chris Farley, among many others.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 17, 2019 | Public Health | 0 |
Now, with the introduction of fentanyl and carfentanil, the decision to inject heroin or cocaine can easily result in a fatality.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 3, 2019 | Addictive Substances, Public Health | 0 |
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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