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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Life in a Hot Spot
Make it a continuing effort, using strategies based in evidence, and harnessing the power of human interaction– instead of relying on a burst of anti-drug education, however intense.
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The Risk Factor
Ironically, the same research indicates that those opioids chronic pain patients depended on weren’t really doing much for their pain.
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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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A Genetic Test for SUD?
How’s the saying go? “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”
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An MD takes on the DEA
Still, “pill mills” do continue to exist, if not in the numbers they once did. I suppose they could stage a comeback — the economics still work.
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Keith Humphreys on Drug Policy
Professional treatment is by definition time-limited; recovery is not. That journey doesn’t end. Peer-based support is often better able to meet future needs.
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The Power of Drug Company Marketing
…a number of years ago, the Institute of Medicine set forth guidelines intended to reduce the influence of advertising on how physicians prescribed medications… to date, relatively few physicians have actually adopted those guidelines.
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A Success, but with Complications
But if he feels he needs the medication to function normally, I see no reason for the rest of us to object. I mean, we don’t want to disincentivize someone’s recovery, do we?
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Odds & Ends
…they may have purchased what they believe to be cocaine, or methamphetamine, or heroin, any or all of which may have been ‘cut’ with fentanyl or another uber-potent synthetic opioid, in sufficient quantity to overcome their tolerance and put them in imminent danger of death.
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Back in Court — Pill Mill edition
A lone physician was found to have prescribed more than 500,000 doses of prescription opioids to assorted patients in little more than two years of medical practice.
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Gas Station Heroin
Consumers may inadvertently find themselves addicted to tianeptine and should avoid all products containing tianeptine, especially those claiming to treat opioid use disorder.
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Is there a role for cannabis in OUD Treatment?
They found no clear correlation between cannabis use and a lessening of opioid dependence.
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