Tag: overdose
Overdose Prevention Is COVID-19 Prevention, Too
I heard a story last week of a man who was struggling with opioid ...
How Harm Reduction Is Responding to the Pandemic
In the two weeks since the first coronavirus cases were confirmed in New York ...
San Diego County Lawmaker Pushes to End Syringe Exchange Ban
A lawmaker in San Diego County, California is urging his colleagues to rethink a ...
Study: Stopping Long-Term Opioid Prescriptions Associated With Veterans’ Deaths
For years, pain patient activists have been sounding the alarm about the consequences of ...
Tightrope: A Powerful But Problematic Deaths-of-Despair Narrative
Through the 1970s, Nicholas Kristof rode the Number 6 bus to school with Donna ...
Why Are Nurses Denied Effective Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder?
One of the greatest hypocrisies in medicine is the restriction of standard-of-care medications for ...
Safehouse Won a Great Victory for Harm Reduction, NIMBYism Blocks It for Now
[Update, February 28: Less than 12 hours after this report was published, Safehouse withdrew ...
The DA Prosecuting OD Survivors Also Pushes Drug-Induced Homicide Laws
Brent Eaton, an Indiana county attorney, is prosecuting people who have survived overdoses by using ...
Study: Fatal GHB Overdoses Could Easily Be Prevented
Many deaths involving GHB, a depressant that’s popular in raves and chemsex scenes, in ...
The Problems With Post-Overdose Response Teams
Drug overdoses (better described as toxic drug mixtures and poisonings) claimed nearly half a ...
