Tag: opioids
Intoxication Has Always Been the American Way—Let’s Work With That
Mood modification through drugs—intoxication—is a standard cultural reality in American history, but possibly even ...
Study: A Seattle Safer Consumption Site Would Save Money, as Well as Lives
Just one safer consumption space (SCS) for people who use drugs in Kings County, ...
“Never Give Up”—State Commission Urges Mass. to Move for Supervised Consumption Sites
The Massachusetts Commission on Harm Reduction issued a report on March 1 recommending the ...
How a Paraplegic Drug User Became a Victim of Involuntary Commitment
Barely a day passes on my beat without my meeting someone with a harrowing ...
The Tricky Connection Between MAT and Low Sex Drive
Imagine going through opioid use disorder treatment with methadone or buprenorphine, perhaps getting a job and family ...
Tennessee Plan to Mandate Lockable Prescription Bottles May Help, But Only Slightly
New Tennessee legislation hopes to tackle teenage prescription opioid use by keeping pill bottles ...
Rate of Opioid-Related Deaths Will “Substantially Worsen” Under Current Conditions, Study Projects
Current drug and health policy is clearly not doing enough to end the crisis ...
How Stigma Against Addiction Devastates Pain Patients
First it was a hip replacement. Then it became complicated by a MRSA infection. ...
State of the Union: Trump’s Real “Special Guest” Was Bad Drug Policy
President Donald Trump’s special guests to the State of the Union address on February ...
Companies Use Patient Data to Generate “Risk Scores” for Their Likelihood of Addiction
The Food and Drug Administration ended 2018 by awarding Milliman, a health insurance consulting ...
