Credit to Author: Maia Szalavitz| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 15:07:18 +0000
Hydromorphone, aka “Dilly,” is now available to people who aren’t ready or able to quit opioids.
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Credit to Author: Maia Szalavitz| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 19:39:59 +0000
Insurers and state governments haven’t gotten up to speed with federal recommendations, and pain patients are paying the price.
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Credit to Author: Maia Szalavitz| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 21:54:00 +0000
The Drug Enforcement Agency’s role in the opioid crisis makes clear that law enforcement shouldn’t be regulating medicine.
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Credit to Author: Maia Szalavitz| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 13:18:00 +0000
OK, maybe it’s not “your father’s weed.”
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Credit to Author: Maia Szalavitz| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 17:04:51 +0000
Sanders and Warren supporting safe injection sites shows how far we’ve come since the 80s.
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Credit to Author: Maia Szalavitz| Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 18:42:32 +0000
We know that politically, when turning points in crises are identified, both attention and money are drawn away from the issue.
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Credit to Author: Maia Szalavitz| Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 16:02:09 +0000
Facebook appears to be blocking people who warn users about poisonous batches of drugs or who supply materials used to test for fentanyl.
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Credit to Author: Maia Szalavitz| Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2019 19:27:02 +0000
Experts are concerned we’ll see a rise in brain damage among people who survive multiple ODs in the age of fentanyl.
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Credit to Author: Maia Szalavitz| Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 11:33:22 +0000
Deliberately mixing the powerful and deadly drug with stimulants like coke and meth is one (dangerous) way users are adjusting to a new market.
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Credit to Author: Maia Szalavitz| Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 12:16:56 +0000
Cracking down on the legal supply is not a solution. In fact, it could spell disaster.
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