...the situation has improved, mostly because of renewed efforts on the demand side. Estonia adopted harm reduction strategies used effectively in other countries, such as take-home naloxone; ready access to MAT; and efforts to destigmatize drug use and drug users.
The end result is a trip to the Emergency Room and a stay in the ICU– if the user is lucky, that is.
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…he did purchase and ingest the illegal opioids. He didn’t realize they contained fentanyl.
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Would it be reasonable to expect an employer to recognize when their employee was engaged in conduct such as Kay’s? Or was that outside of their role as employer, and their responsibility for his actions?
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Overdose reversal where medetomidine is involved is complicated by the fact that an opioid antagonist (naloxone) isn’t effective.
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All this time and money spent on sophisticated technology and systems to track patterns in use, and scientists are still forced to rely on data that’s six months out of date?
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As for treatment, the best estimate I could find was that 40% of Scotland’s chronic drug users were enrolled in programs, as opposed to 60% in England.
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…he had become a prime target for exploitation by some truly awful people.
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Lives are at stake. We can’t rely on hunches. We need facts.
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Harm reduction advocates argue that this means the city needs to open Supervised Injection Centers, or SIC’s, as a harm reduction measure.
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I couldn’t help noticing: The lack of references to the effectiveness of interdiction and law-enforcement.
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A user could count on a better exchange rate for the Safer Supply medication, whether in cash or illicit heroin, fentanyl, whatever.
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“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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