overdose

Study: Fatal GHB Overdoses Could Easily Be Prevented

Many deaths involving GHB, a depressant that's popular in raves and chemsex scenes, in Australia might have been possibly prevented…

February 25, 2020

The Problems With Post-Overdose Response Teams

Drug overdoses (better described as toxic drug mixtures and poisonings) claimed nearly half a million lives in the US between…

February 24, 2020

Some Residents, Officials Gang Up Against Syringe Exchange in Chico, CA

People who use drugs in Chico, California have faced opposition in obtaining sterile harm reduction supplies. Following residents' complaints about…

February 19, 2020

Naloxone Now Used as Evidence to Prosecute Indiana OD Victims

An Indiana county attorney and police chief are working together to prosecute people who have suffered overdoses with felonies—and to…

February 19, 2020

Iowa Law Enforcement Alleged to Be “Moving Force” in Meth Death

In May 2019, Alex Billmeyer died from methamphetamine intoxication after being held in a Dubuque County, Iowa jail cell for…

February 18, 2020

My Friend Died Because of Philly’s Addiction-Treatment Smoking Ban

I met Bobby in 2011, when we were both residents in a local recovery house. Bobby was 19 years old…

February 18, 2020

Utah Woman Heralded for Naloxone Save, But State Doesn’t Fund Distribution

The man is lying on a sidewalk, experiencing an opioid overdose. You recognize the signs, and know exactly what he…

February 13, 2020

Study: Opioid Substitution Meds, Not Detox, Prevent Overdose

The only treatment interventions associated with reducing an opioid use disorder patient's overdose risk are buprenorphine and methadone, according to…

February 10, 2020

South Carolina Bid to Increase Naloxone Access in People’s Homes

You walk out of the South Carolina sun into an air-conditioned pharmacy, ready to pick up the hydrocodone and Xanax…

February 7, 2020

Is Delaware the New Center of the OD Crisis?

One of the smallest states in the US is increasingly being hit the hardest by fatal overdoses as the rest…

February 3, 2020