Undercounted?
Seriously, where’s the incentive to put out a product that could potentially kill your best customers? How in the world could that be considered a smart business move?
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Europeans Drink, Too
Lobbying by the alcohol industry is also an issue in Europe. That won’t surprise us in America.
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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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Another wave of OD?
“Overdose deaths from carfentanil…[increased] from 29 between January and June 2023 to 238 in that same period in 2024.” That’s a heck of a year-over-year increase, although it still represents only a small percentage of total fatalities.
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Safer Supply?
…it appears that a significant percent of the opioid medication is being diverted– for resale on the street, probably, or swapped for the illicit stuff.
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Now Where?
Right now, and very recently, the curve of overdoses has sloped downward. It’s the first real decline we’ve seen in a long time.
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More about “The Pink Stuff”
…pink cocaine could be classified as a stimulant (MDMA), a psychedelic (the aforementioned 2-CB), and a dissociative anesthetic (ketamine). Along with whatever else the outlaw chemist may have had lying around the lab at the time.
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Mean Green
At this point in the US, there are allegedly a couple of hundred thousand people who would reasonably qualify as ketamine-addicted.
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A Backwards Look at a Celebrity OD
…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.
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Good News on the Overdose Front
Some less good news: Law enforcement sees evidence of aggressive efforts by drug cartels to establish supply lines and operations within the US.
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The Perry file, part two
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.
Fatal for These Fans
In the absence of much factual information, wild theories have proliferated.
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Two Ketamine Fatalities
“During our training, we were told numerous times that this is a safe, effective drug,” one of the two testified.
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