Tag: opioids
Judge Orders County to Offer OUD Meds to All Jailed Patients, in US First
A New York district judge has ordered upstate Jefferson County to offer medication for ...
Illinois County Giving Naloxone to Gas Stations, Restaurants and More
In the central region of Illinois, the Champaign-Urbana Health District (CUHD) is giving out ...
Record High Overdose Deaths—Yet Again—in 2021, CDC Reveals
New provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that ...
No, My Prescribed Opioid Use Was Not a “Relapse”
Society tends to view banned drugs and their use in binary terms. People who ...
Taliban Announces Cruel Poppy Ban During Afghan Harvest Season
What’s that time-worn saying about doing the same thing over and over and expecting ...
Myriad New Drugs Complicate Legalization, as Well as Harm Reduction
Humans have found or created a truly staggering number of psychoactive substances. Some, like ...
Kratom Helps Me Cope With Life, So What’s the Problem?
A kilo is surprisingly heavy, I thought as I dropped the package onto my ...
2022 State of the Union Includes First-Ever Nod to Harm Reduction
The 2022 State of the Union address was the first such speech to mention ...
Prisoner Who Sued for Access to OUD Meds Is in Solitary as “Retaliation”
The man at the center of a pivotal legal battle over access to methadone ...
Drug Euphoria Is a Good Thing, Actually
Back before I’d ever heard of harm reduction, I spent a lot of time ...
