Category: Addiction
With Safe Injection Sites, ‘Somebody Has to Go First.’ It Could Be Philadelphia.
A non-profit wants to open a safe injection site in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood, known for high-quality, cheap heroin and daily overdose deaths.
Overdose Prevention Should Include Alcohol Too, Study Suggests
Alcohol ramps up the effects of drugs that act on the brain and nervous system, and vice versa, which increases the risk of overdose.
This overdose-reversal drug could cut opioid deaths – why don’t more people carry it?
Tens of thousands are dying of opioid-related overdoses in the US, but many could be saved if they had been treated with the safe, easy-to-use drug naloxone.
Using stimulants to cram for exams doesn’t help test scores
Nonprescription use of stimulants is a growing problem for young people, bringing not only a risk of overdose and addiction but also damaging sleep disruption.
Opioid Treatment Scam May Be Coming to Your State
Patient “brokers” can make initial commissions of as much as $2,000 for each patient they recruit for for-profit opioid treatment programs.
Increase in local overdose deaths linked to fentanyl-laced drugs
Fentanyl has been found in illicit M30, V48 and A215 pills and various powder products.
State makes it easier to access opioid overdose drug
Anyone who wants to get opioid overdose drug naloxone can now obtain the drug at any pharmacy in the state without a prescription.
Addiction clinics marketing pricey, unproven treatments.
Clinics tout high success rates that appeal to vulnerable people suffering from addiction, even if there’s no solid evidence to support their claims or methods.
Opioid study shows which counties are at high-risk
Study identified 412 counties are at least twice as likely to be at high risk for opioid overdose deaths and to lack providers who can deliver medications to treat opioid use disorder.
Six-step plan reduced opioid use in rural clinic patients
A six-step plan that took a system approach cut use of high-dose opioids by more than 14 percent.
Drug and Alcohol Death rise in King County
Heroin and opioids continue to be the most common drugs associated with fatal overdoses, while deaths involving methamphetamine continued to rise sharply.
Meth In The Morning, Heroin At Night
Life inside the seesaw struggle of dual addiction.
Surgeons’ Opioid-Prescribing Habits Are Hard To Kick
As opioid addiction and overdoses escalated into an epidemic, many surgeons continued to hand out far more pills than needed for postoperative pain relief
The opioid crisis is not about pain – viewpoint
The opioid crisis is not, at its root, a problem of pain. It is a mental health crisis.
Opioid Treatment Programs Gear Up to Provide Suicide Care
People with an opioid addiction are at much higher risk for suicide than the rest of the population.