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A Patch for Prevention?

by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 21, 2026 | In the News | 0 |

I can imagine some users — not all, but more than a few — will make use of the patch to facilitate further unaccompanied fentanyl use, confident now that they won’t inadvertently overdose. And being surprised when they did.

What We Can Learn from Estonia

by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 30, 2026 | Prevention | 0 |
Those Troubling OD Statistics

by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 27, 2026 | Public Health | 0 |
Bad Days in Baltimore

by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 22, 2026 | Public Health | 0 |
We Don’t Want A New Drug

by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 9, 2026 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
Undercounted?

by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 2, 2026 | Addictive Substances | 0 |

Yet Another Celebrity Overdose

by C. Scott McMillin | Feb 2, 2026 | Addiction | 0 |

Expansion of Medicaid has greatly improved things for those at the low end, but we seem to have greater difficulty coming up with a decent solution for the crazy stuff that can sometimes happen at the very top.

More on Medetomidine

by C. Scott McMillin | Jan 5, 2026 | Addictive Substances | 0 |

The end result is a trip to the Emergency Room and a stay in the ICU– if the user is lucky, that is.

The Skaggs Case: A Last Update

by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 29, 2025 | In the News | 0 |

…he did purchase and ingest the illegal opioids. He didn’t realize they contained fentanyl.

The Skaggs Case – an update

by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 13, 2025 | In the News | 0 |

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?

Hard to say, but good to know

by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 27, 2025 | Addictive Substances | 0 |

Overdose reversal where medetomidine is involved is complicated by the fact that an opioid antagonist (naloxone) isn’t effective.

A Closer Look at Overdose

by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 20, 2025 | Public Health | 0 |

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technology and systems to track patterns in use, and scientists are still forced to rely on data that’s six months out of date?

The Scottish Problem

by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 15, 2025 | In the News | 0 |

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.