Tag: opioids
With New Final Methadone Rule, SAMHSA Isn’t Coming to Save Us
People on methadone in the United States have been thrown under the bus yet ...
Bill Seeks to Ring-Fence States’ Spending of Opioid Settlement Cash
State governments shouldn’t be stashing opioid settlement money in their general funds, say the ...
Kentucky Shelves Plan to Use Opioid Settlement Cash for Ibogaine Pilot
A plan in Kentucky to create an ibogaine treatment and research pilot with opioid ...
Neither Snake Oil Nor Silver Bullet: Ibogaine for Opioid Use Disorder
“But as fascinating as the pharmacology of ibogaine [is], it is the chemistry of ...
Comic Designed to Boost Health Care for Veterans Who Use Drugs
A group of researchers have developed a comic designed to encourage veterans and health ...
Cannabis Legalization Linked to Reduced Tobacco, Alcohol Use in Young Adults
Another federally funded study is suggesting that marijuana legalization may be linked to a ...
SAMHSA’s National Drug Use Survey Has a Fentanyl Problem
Up through 2021, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) national drug ...
“Sleep’s Cave”—The Speculation Around Ovid’s Opium References
Publius Ovidius Naso, known today as Ovid, was a Roman poet of great acclaim ...
Opioid Settlement Funds: Will “Once-in-a-Generation” Chance Be Wasted?
As opioid settlement dollars start rolling into jurisdictions across the United States, debate has ...
A Daughter’s Life and Death, Seen Through a Harm Reduction Lens
The book Addicted and Convicted: Letters from a Lost Daughter, published in August, tells ...
