Tag: opioids
What Should “Overdose Awareness” Really Mean?
Fatal overdoses may be slightly declining in the United States, according to preliminary 2018 ...
Five of the Ways Unsanctioned Harm Reduction Continues to Blaze Trails
Unsanctioned grassroots initiatives—from the unofficial to the plain illegal—are both the origins and the ...
Lisa’s Legacy: How the Buprenorphine X-Waiver Costs Lives
The young woman paced frantically around the hospital room, dark bags under her bloodshot ...
2020 Candidate Andrew Yang Tweets Support for Safe Consumption Sites
On August 7, Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang tweeted his support for safe consumption ...
Rising Meth-Involved Deaths of Major Concern Amid Estimated 2018 Overdose Fall
For the first time since the 1990s, fatal drug overdoses decreased in 2018, according ...
To Taper a Pain Patient? It’s Never One-Size-Fits-All
Many years ago, I broke my ankle—tibia and fibula—in a fall from a horse. ...
How Did We Come to Abandon America’s Pain Patients?
Overdoses—not those involving prescription opioids, but of heroin and illicit fentanyl, often combined with ...
Almost 80 Percent of Heroin Users in Boston, Baltimore Would Visit Safe Consumption Sites
A large majority of people who use opioids in three coastal cities would utilize ...
Overdoses Are Deadliest Within First Few Months Out of Delaware Prisons
In 2018, Delaware had the sixth highest number of overdose deaths in the country, ...
Nurse Who Gave Her Meds to MAT-Deprived Patients Convicted
On November 18, 2018 at Massachusetts Alcohol and Substance Abuse Center (MASAC) at Plymouth, ...
