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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Lessons Learned– Again
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.
An Overdose In LA
“They just assume that adults will lie to them about such things. And that their peers won’t.”
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The Opioid Epidemic – What Comes Now?
Some experts have predicted a fourth wave, featuring fentanyl in combination with other addictive drugs, such as methamphetamine, cocaine, and benzodiazepine sedatives.
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Fentanyl Sneaks In
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.
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Tracking the OD Epidemic
“These (victims) just crumple and collapse. Frequently they don’t even inject the full syringe…”
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Fake Pills Redux
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.
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1st Person — A Grateful Survivor
“Don’t worry, I’ll stop when I’m ready.” Somehow, that readiness never comes. Or perhaps it simply arrives too late.
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“Omar coming”
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.
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Fatal OD, Unintended OD
To the casual observer, drinking or drug use is a form of slow suicide.
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