House Panel Says China Subsidizes Fentanyl Production to Fuel U.S. Crisis
(MedPage Today) -- China is fueling the fentanyl crisis in the U.S. by directly subsidizing the manufacturing of materials that are used by traffickers to make the drug outside the country, according to a report released Tuesday by a special House... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - April 17, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
House panel says China subsidizes fentanyl production to fuel crisis in the U.S
China is fueling the fentanyl crisis in the U.S. by directly subsidizing the manufacturing of materials that are used by traffickers to make the drug outside the country, according to a report released Tuesday by a special House committee focused on countering the Chinese government. Committee…#mikegallagher #xijinping #williambarr #ukraine #rajakrishnamoorthi #democrat (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Mexico, a leading producer of illicit fentanyl, can't get enough for medical use, study finds
A new report by the Mexican government says the country is facing a dire shortage of fentanyl for medical use, even as Mexican cartels pump out tons of the illicit narcotic (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Flesh-rotting 'zombie drug' Tranq has killed 11 Brits and is now rife in UK, experts warn: Tranquiliser powerful enough to fell an elephant has laid waste to US cities
Xylazine, or 'tranq', has been found in hard opioids like heroin or fentanyl but also worryingly in cocaine, counterfeit codeine and Valium tablets, and even in some cannabis vapes. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Suffering Shouldn ’ t Be a Normal Part of Womanhood
One of the most important lessons medical schools teach is one my mom mastered as a teenager left to fill her own mother’s shoes: how to figure out who is really sick and needs immediate attention and who can wait (or what we in the medical field call “triage”). Nothing I learned in med school or since has contradicted what I learned at Bertha’s knee.
At the time, the practice of medicine was rudimentary—and that’s putting it nicely. So, the diagnoses typically made at home were probably not that different from those of a bona fide doctor. The more serious common ailments were things ...
Source: TIME: Health - April 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dr. Sharon Malone Tags: Uncategorized health Source Type: news
Increasing exposure of young children to illicit fentanyl in the United States - Temple C, Hendrickson RG.
Reported exposures to illicit fentanyl in children younger than 6 years of age in the United States have increased by a factor of 100 during the past decade.
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Source: SafetyLit - April 5, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Oldest Man Dies; Fentanyl Easter Eggs; Lauren Boebert's Blood Clot
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The world's oldest man died at the age of 114 in Venezuela, the Guinness World Records announced. He would have turned 115 next month.
"We beat Big Pharma," said... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - April 4, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Two Men Arrested for Involvement in Fentanyl Death of'Pose' Star Cecilia Gentili
Two men have been arrested and charged in connection to the death of “Pose” actress and transgender activist Cecilia Gentili. “Cecilia Gentili, a prominent activist and leader of the New York transgender community was tragically poisoned in her Brooklyn home from fentanyl-laced heroin,” Breon…#pose #ceciliagentili #brooklyn #breonpeace #easterndistrict #newyorkers #michaelkuilan #antonioventi #gentili #todays (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Adulterants present in the San Diego county fentanyl supply: a laboratory analysis of seized law enforcement samples - Galust H, Seltzer JA, Hardin JR, Friedman NA, Salamat J, Clark RF, Harmon J.
BACKGROUND: The opioid overdose crisis is one of the worst public health crises ever to face the US and emerging evidence suggests its effects are compounded by the presence of drug adulterants. Here we report our efforts to characterize the adulterants pr... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 1, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Fentanyl abuse proportion in methadone maintenance treatment, and patients' knowledge about its risks - Sason A, Adelson M, Schreiber S, Peles E.
INTRODUCTION: Fentanyl is not yet routinely monitored among methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) patients in Israel. We aimed 1. to evaluate urine fentanyl proportion changes over 3 years and characterize patients' characteristics 2. To study patients' se... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 1, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
California is making fentanyl test strips free to organizations. How to get a kit
In an effort to slow the proliferation of synthetic opioid-related deaths, California will begin offering free fentanyl-testing strips to eligible organizations across the state that ask for them, the state Department of Health Care Services announced Thursday. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - March 29, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Karen Garcia Source Type: news
Illicitly manufactured fentanyl use among individuals in the U.S., 2022 - Palamar JJ.
INTRODUCTION: While morbidity and mortality related to synthetic opioids such as illicitly manufactured fentanyl (IMF) are monitored in the U.S., there has been a lack of national survey data focusing on use. Survey data are important as self-report can he... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
" Our Country Is Being Poisoned " : 270,000 Overdose Deaths Catapult Fentanyl As Major Voter Topic In Presidential Race
"Our Country Is Being Poisoned": 270,000 Overdose Deaths Catapult Fentanyl As Major Voter Topic In Presidential Race In a recent interview on Fox News, former President Donald Trump warned, "Our country is being poisoned from within by the drugs and by all of the other crime that's taking place."…#votertopic #donaldtrump #ukraine #gaza #unityagenda (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
270,000 Overdose Deaths Thrust Fentanyl Into Heart of US Presidential Race
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Source: Reuters: Health - March 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
300 Americans are dying per DAY from drug overdoses as fentanyl epidemic reaches new record, new CDC data shows
A CDC-led report found there were a record 107,941 deaths from overdoses that year, the latest available - the equivalent of 300 fatalities per day and up one percent on the year before. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
