Tag: opioids
Utah’s Overdose Spike and a Green Substance Known as “Hulk”
Local officials and harm reductionists are reporting increased drug overdoses in Utah this year, ...
Pennsylvania Now Lets You Get Naloxone by Mail
Pennsylvania’s health secretary, Dr. Rachel Levine, has issued a new standing order to allow ...
Despite Fentanyl’s Ubiquity, Test Strips Can Still Empower Drug Users
As the presence of illicit fentanyl has reached near-ubiquity in many North American heroin ...
Canadian Drug Users Need Us Doctors to Step Up With Safe Supply
The tennis player Arthur Ashe once said that to take on a challenge, “start ...
Rx Opioid Users Have More Labor Rights Than Heroin Users
In the United States, access to disability accommodations and protections are not guaranteed to ...
Nursing Homes Discriminate Against Opioid Use Disorder Patients at Alarming Rate
In 2018 alone, nearly four in ten people who were hospitalized in Massachusetts for ...
Navigating the Baffling Systems of Care That Failed My Son
[The following article is excerpted from two chapters of Cover My Dreams in Ink, ...
“I Can’t Breathe”—The Haunting Urgency of Juice WRLD’s Post-OD Album
Since the December 8, 2019 fatal overdose of Jarad Higgins—a Black rapper who went ...
FDA Greenlights Private Sector to Purge Websites Selling “Unapproved Opioids”
A new private-public partnership aims to purge the internet of “unapproved opioid” vendors in ...
Why Isotonitazene Is Not Yet the “New Fentanyl”
In the span of about a year, isotonitazene, a novel psychoactive substance (NPS), went ...
