Topic: mortality

We already know there’s a strong business link between vaping and Big Tobacco.

Cannabis doesn’t replace opioids the way methadone or buprenorphine do. There’s no antagonist effect as with naloxone or naltrexone.

The list of deaths from the practice is long and oddly prestigious, featuring celebs such as John Belushi and Chris Farley, among many others.

Now, with the introduction of fentanyl and carfentanil, the decision to inject heroin or cocaine can easily result in a fatality.

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

Drug dealers at the higher levels of the marketplace are much like other businesspeople in their natural aversion to bad publicity.

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.

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.

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?

There are plenty of steps we could take, supported by research and common sense, that would produce measurable gains in a relatively short span.