A Bad Day For Baltimore
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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Drug ODs in decline at last?
A logical starting place for a community concerned about drug use would be with data collected by their own health departments and criminal justice agencies, with the aim of funding and implementing a continuum of services that reflects the actual (and likely future) needs of their own citizens.
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7 Trips to Rehab, Part One
These are issues that users seldom take into consideration, in the rush to get the drug. But healthcare professionals, and their attorneys, have to consider them.
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Seniors Who OD
In some instances involving the elderly, the practitioner thinks treatment isn’t worth the effort. “I don’t see the point, especially when she may not have that much time left anyway,”
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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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More Perry
Sounds as if Perry probably wasn’t the only customer, either.
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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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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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Another surge of “Tranq”
…the outcome can be serious. In some cases, we’re told, untreated lesions have led to amputation.
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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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