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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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Flooded with Fakes
The DEA has committed to a public information campaign around the theme of “one pill can kill”. Although that’s technically true, I don’t know how much impact it will have on the target audience.
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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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A Bewildering Mix
As many as fifty of these NPS designer drugs have been found to date. That sounds like a lot until we realize the potential for hundreds more to appear in future.
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Safe Injection in the Big Apple
Do you want them here with us, in range of immediate help? Or lying dead in the bathroom of your local fast-food joint?
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An Athlete Died
…it appears that chain pharmacists did in fact become concerned about the size or source of some of the opioid prescriptions written during this period. They reported it to their bosses at Corporate and were instructed to go ahead and fill the scripts anyway.
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Accidents Happen
His death was an accident in the sense that nothing was found to suggest he intended to die.
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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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A Death in Rehab
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).
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ODs in NYC
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.
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Harm Reduction x3
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.
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A Possible Breakthrough involving Fentanyl
Where fentanyl is present, single doses of naloxone often prove inadequate.
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