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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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by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 18, 2023 | In the News | 0 |
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
by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 28, 2023 | In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 27, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 22, 2023 | Treatment | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 13, 2023 | Addictive Substances, In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 10, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 27, 2023 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
…there are now some 300,000 Americans on methadone maintenance, and I’m assuming many of them will not want to transition to buprenorphine.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 23, 2023 | In the News | 0 |
Programs that treat people with significant addiction histories are always vulnerable to incidents such as this. It would be called a ‘sentinel event’, meaning one that resulted in death (or near-death).
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 20, 2023 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
Which brings us to the issue of Supervised Injection Sites (SIS). An outbreak such as the one in New York is the strongest argument for these centers.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 13, 2023 | Public Policy | 0 |
Because such approaches may not aim to get people off drugs – in some ways, it’s an acknowledgment that they probably won’t, regardless of our efforts – such programs can face opposition.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 27, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
The researchers were interested in whether receipt of such a letter would cause the physician to be more cautious in prescribing in future. The answer: It did.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 2, 2023 | Addictive Substances, Public Health | 0 |
…much of the fentanyl in circulation is in the form of an additive to some other drug– cocaine, for instance, or methamphetamine, or one of the many sedatives.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 29, 2022 | Recovery | 0 |
I’ve always been a bit nervous when I see somebody new in recovery get themselves deeply involved in one sort of crusade or another.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 15, 2022 | Resources | 1 |
Where fentanyl is present, single doses of naloxone often prove inadequate.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 8, 2022 | Public Policy | 0 |
…these guidelines contain many best practices that, had they been in place in the 1990’s, and enough prescribers had followed them, we might well have avoided the worst of the prescription painkiller epidemic
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 28, 2022 | Addictive Substances, In the News | 0 |
It appears that the presence of other drugs in the fentanyl and heroin currently flooding our streets has made naloxone, the opioid antagonist that is our primary weapon against OD fatalities, far less likely to be effective.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 10, 2022 | In the News | 0 |
I think poisoned Halloween candy would be extremely unlikely but potentially devastating to whoever was unfortunate enough to be on the receiving end.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 13, 2022 | Addiction | 0 |
Hint: Just insisting that you’re not bluffing this time won’t convince that young man, or many others of his kind. He’ll need to be shown.
In an atmosphere such as this – already ‘spoiled’, we might say – any response must be carefully thought through and planned.