Tag: opioids
State Bills to Regulate Kratom Advance, Alongside Ones to Ban It
Nine months after Rhode Island passed a law regulating the sale of kratom, the ...
Primary Care “Opioid Risk Scores” Poorly Predict Individual OD Risk
In 2019, Epic—the company behind the MyChart health care software used by over 190 ...
No, Synthetic Opioid Cychlorphine Has Not Proved Narcan “Ineffective”
A minor media frenzy has been forming around cychlorphine, a novel synthetic opioid described ...
Grassroots Harm Reduction Sidelined in NY Opioid Fund Spending
“He was awesome,” Alexis Pleus, executive director of Truth Pharm, a small harm reduction ...
Poppy Growing Shifts to Pakistan After Taliban’s Crackdown in Afghanistan
Afghanistan used to have the distinction of producing the opium for 95 per cent ...
7-OH Did Not Cause the LA Overdose Deaths (Neither Did Kratom)
On September 12, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LACDPH) announced that ...
“Mother of Methadone”—Trailblazing and Stigma in Addiction Medicine
With Dr. Melody Glenn’s new book—Mother of Methadone: A Doctor’s Quest, A Forgotten History, ...
“An Architect of the Crisis”: WV Sues Express Scripts Over Rx Opioids
West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey (R) has filed a lawsuit against Express Scripts ...
Baltimore Accepts Offer for Fraction of the Opioid Settlement It Sought
The city of Baltimore has opted to take a court deal that will leave ...
Judge Offers Baltimore $100 million for OD Crisis—Far Less Than City Sought
A judge has offered Baltimore $100 million for opioid abatement efforts in a landmark ...
