We do not have an overdose crisis. We have a poisoned drug supply. Fentanyl and its analogs are killing tens of thousands of Americans every year. Alarmingly and with ominous future implications, fentanyl-laced cocaine fatalities in Ohio are now outstripping fentanyl-laced herion fatalities. Who is adding fentanyl and carfentanil to the cocaine supply? Disconnected from…
Hawk, an Emergency Department physician with Yale New Haven Hospital, said that the drug that caused the overdoses was K2* laced with fentanyl.*K2 “a big potpourri” of potentially dangerous drugs. “There’s so much garbage that’s being sold and you can call it whatever you want to call it. Even the drug dealers don’t know.” -Dr.…
Some patients treated at the Green did not initially respond to naloxone, and needed a higher concentration of the overdose reversal drug once they arrived at hospitals, Bogucki [New Haven’s director of emergency medical services]said. Police and fire officials said the K2 was potentially laced with some type of opioid [in this case perhaps fentanyl, synthetic…
The documents were supposed to be routine updates on the status of a large amount of kratom that had been seized under the FDA’s Import Alert in 2016 The FDA staff, who are required by law to be fair, objective, and free from bias — showed they are horribly biased against kratom. In fact, these…
“Even when you think you’re doing better, all it takes is one bad batch of fentanyl in any state and you’re going to have deaths,” said Mark Levine, a physician and the health commissioner of Vermont, which has made major investments in addiction treatment but still experienced a spike in deaths in 2016. Last year,…
…there’s been a spike in the numbers killed by a new synthetic class of opiates called Fentanyl which is 100 times more potent than morphine. …overall drug-related deaths last year rose to the highest levels since records began. Original Article (BBC Channel 4): UK drug-related deaths rise to highest level since records beganArtwork Fair Use: Public Domain
In the first quarter of 2018, 14.8% of the cocaine tested at the three state crime labs had fentanyl or a fentanyl analog in it. Carfentanil was laced into 4.2% of cocaine … The overdose death epidemic no longer skews to low-income whites. The state’s entire illegal drug supply — except marijuana — is contaminated. Heroin…
The Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed why he has a personal stake in fighting the current opioid epidemic: His son almost died from using cocaine laced with the synthetic opioid called fentanyl. On average, in the United States, 115 people die every day from an opioid overdose, the CDC said…
[Tom] Eckert doesn’t believe that trying to incorporate psilocybin into existing medical and pharmaceutical models will work. To the contrary, he thinks it will zap the substance of what makes it so powerfully effective. Eckert is strict in clarifying that OPS is not proposing a full-fledged legalization effort. Instead, he is focused on what he…
Their experiences underscore the high stakes of a potential federal ban on kratom. Some consumers have been unwilling to sacrifice the benefits they’ve gotten from kratom, and have kept using it despite the legal risks. A few now face serious repercussions as a result. This demand suggests a robust black market for kratom will continue…
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