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 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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Up Next — Nitazenes
And for nitazenes, ‘ultra potent’ likely translates to ten or more times as powerful as fentanyl. Many hundreds of times beyond morphine.
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Rehab for Pain Patients
Simply bringing up the possibility of ‘doing without’ could be immensely threatening.
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Politicians and the Fourth Wave
When it comes to the availability of naloxone, the article states that “…while most states have decriminalized [opioid antagonists] … some, including Texas, continue to treat them as drug paraphernalia.”
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Xylazine Update
Unfortunately, adulterating fentanyl with xylazine makes naloxone substantially less effective in terms of reviving an overdose victim.
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A Deputy and a Drug Trafficker
But, his lawyer reminds us, we shouldn’t forget that his client is ‘only’ 25 years old. Not only that, the client reportedly has assured his attorney that “…I promise you, I’m not a bad person.”
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About That Fourth Wave…
Extra naloxone doses were required to lift the victim out of a coma and lower the risk of respiratory arrest and death. Translation: New barriers to saving lives in the street. And more fatalities.
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Narcan in Da House
Yes, some of the corporations who helped fuel the opioid overdose epidemic will now be able to profit from selling us an important part of the solution
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