A Patch for Prevention?
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.
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Numbers Game
“Significantly lesser quantities of drugs are smuggled directly into the United States by traffickers using maritime conveyances than by traffickers using overland routes.”
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Gambling, Teen Style
I suspect many parents would be surprised to learn that ”The students in the audience…are all too familiar with the explosion of apps that make it easy to bet on individual plays, international politics and awards show flubs.”
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Commercial Determinants of Health
In the neverending hunt for financial rewards, poor consumer health can be viewed as collateral damage.
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She does have a point…
I don’t see how any nation, let alone the United States, can hope to have real impact on the country’s drug problems without committing to a coordinated plan of action, and then sticking with it.
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Parenting Under The Influence
Children raised in such families are more likely to be exposed to violence, to initiate their own substance use at an earlier age, and to have mental health problems in childhood.
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Checkpoint Challenges
By the time an offender gets caught, they are thoroughly convinced by their own experience that the risk of apprehension is minimal. So they’re surprised, hurt, and more often than not, really angry.
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OD Epidemic Nearing an End?
I couldn’t help noticing: The lack of references to the effectiveness of interdiction and law-enforcement.
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Does Minimum Unit Pricing Work?
I’d have to call MUP a blunt instrument. One that does achieve its primary goal– that’s important– but not without possible consequences.
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Detection Dilemma
Seems to me this is just another weakness in the plan to rely on border control and enforcement to stem the rise of synthetic drugs in the US.
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Labels & Screening
(per the Surgeon General), “…alcohol directly contributes to 100,000 cancer cases and 20,000 related deaths each year…”
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A Problem with the Evidence
Current best estimates are that only some 25 to 30 percent of us are capable of reading and understanding the content of the New York Times Science section.
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Safer Supply?
…it appears that a significant percent of the opioid medication is being diverted– for resale on the street, probably, or swapped for the illicit stuff.
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