Mad About Methadone
...there are now some 300,000 Americans on methadone maintenance, and I’m assuming many of them will not want to transition to buprenorphine.
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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.
by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 23, 2023 | In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 20, 2023 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 13, 2023 | Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 15, 2022 | Resources | 1 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 28, 2022 | Addictive Substances, In the News | 0 |
by 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.
by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 3, 2022 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
“They just assume that adults will lie to them about such things. And that their peers won’t.”
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Some experts have predicted a fourth wave, featuring fentanyl in combination with other addictive drugs, such as methamphetamine, cocaine, and benzodiazepine sedatives.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Aug 1, 2022 | Addiction | 0 |
There’s a long history of people dying from the cocaine-opioid combo, commonly known as a ‘speedball’. The actor John Belushi is one. Philip Seymour Hoffman, River Phoenix are others. We could go on.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 4, 2022 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
“These (victims) just crumple and collapse. Frequently they don’t even inject the full syringe…”
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 28, 2021 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
Some genuinely bad news: a larger-than-usual share of the fakes are likely to exceed the two-milligram threshold for a potentially lethal dose of fentanyl. As many as two in five, according to DEA.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 7, 2021 | Addiction | 0 |
“Don’t worry, I’ll stop when I’m ready.” Somehow, that readiness never comes. Or perhaps it simply arrives too late.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 4, 2021 | In the News | 0 |
Michael K. Williams’ death came years later, but was equally unglamorous. Unintentional, the result of a combination of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and p-fluorofentanyl, an analog most people have never heard of.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Sep 27, 2021 | Public Health | 0 |
To the casual observer, drinking or drug use is a form of slow suicide.
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