Amid fentanyl crisis, Oregon lawmakers propose more funding for opioid addiction medication in jails
A bipartisan group of Oregon lawmakers are working to boost funding for jails to provide medication used to treat opioid addiction (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - February 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Former Nurse Pleads Guilty to Adulteration of Fentanyl
A former nurse pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to adulteration of fentanyl at a local hospital. Caroline Sheehan, 39, of Lowell, Mass. pleaded guilty to one count of adulteration of a prescription drug with intent to defraud and mislead. (Source: Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) Press Releases)
Source: Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) Press Releases - February 21, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: DOJ Source Type: news
Ideal Option Opens Flagship Addiction Clinic in Downtown Great Falls
The clinic is partially funded by the American Rescue Plan Act through the City of Great Falls. GREAT FALLS, Mont., Feb. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Ideal Option, a national leader in evidence-based outpatient treatment for addiction to fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, alcohol and... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - February 19, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Weight loss jabs such as Wegovy may treat drug addiction by slashing powerful cravings
Fentanyl addicts who were given liraglutide while in withdrawal saw their cravings reduced. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - February 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Fentanyl Lollipops? Top Border Patrol Doctor Asked Staff For Narcotics Before UN Meeting In New York: Whistleblowers
Several whistleblowers allege that the chief medical officer for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) pressured his staff to smuggle fentanyl lollipops to a September United Nations…#fentanyllollipops #cbp #alexandereastman #cspan #sandiego #scheduleii #marineoperations #newyorkcity #narcan #newseastman (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Routes of drug use among drug overdose deaths - United States, 2020-2022 - Tanz LJ, Gladden RM, Dinwiddie AT, Miller KD, Broz D, Spector E, O'Donnell J.
Preliminary reports indicate that more than 109,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States in 2022; nearly 70% of these involved synthetic opioids other than methadone, primarily illegally manufactured fentanyl and fentanyl analogs (IMFs). Data... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 17, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Smoking Now Fuels More Drug Overdoses than Injecting Does
FRIDAY, Feb. 16, 2024 -- Despite stereotypical images of addicts injecting heroin and then dying, new government research finds that smoking drugs such as fentanyl is now the leading cause of fatal overdoses.In the new research, published Thursday... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - February 16, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
More People Die After Smoking Drugs Than Injecting Them
NEW YORK — Smoking has surpassed injecting as the most common way of taking drugs in U.S. overdose deaths, a new government study suggests.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called its study published Thursday the largest to look at how Americans took the drugs that killed them.
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CDC officials decided to study the topic after seeing reports from California suggesting that smoking fentanyl was becoming more common than injecting it. Potent, illicit versions of the painkiller are involved in more U.S. overdose deaths than any other drug.
Some early rese...
Source: TIME: Health - February 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: MIKE STOBBE/AP Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
Nitazenes Have Entered the Drug Scene. Now What?
(MedPage Today) -- Move over fentanyl! There's a new boogeyman in town. At least that's what you might be hearing from the news. And if you haven't already heard the word "nitazenes" then you can expect to soon.
Nitazenes are a class of synthetic... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - February 13, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Overdosing in a motor vehicle: examination of human, geographic, and environmental factors - Lopez D, Parent J, Stegnicki T, Kenyon Z, Arcoleo K, Malloy LC, Mello M.
BACKGROUND: Fentanyl, a type of opioid, in impaired driving cases increased across cities in the United States. OBJECTIVES: No empirical studies have examined motor vehicle overdoses with fentanyl use. We investigated the magnitude of the motor veh... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 12, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Is this safe? Examining safety assessments of illicit drug purchasing on social media using conjoint analysis - Haupt MR, Cuomo R, Cui M, Mackey TK.
BACKGROUND: Illicit substance sales facilitated by social media platforms are a growing public health issue given recent increases in overdose deaths, including an alarming rise in cases of fentanyl poisoning. However, little is known about how online user... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 9, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
A detailed study of a prominent dark web fentanyl trafficking organization - Caulkins JP, Schicker PC, Milward HB, Reuter P.
Overdose deaths in North America have soared, primarily because of the spread of illegally manufactured fentanyl. This paper uses detailed qualitative and transaction-level data to analyse an early and prominent dark web fentanyl-selling operation. The dat... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 9, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
What to Know About Nitazenes, a Class of Potent Synthetic Opioids
(MedPage Today) -- A class of synthetic opioids known as the nitazenes that are as potent as fentanyl -- or stronger -- have been increasingly involved in deaths in the U.S. and globally, according to reports.
"These are exceptionally dangerous... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - February 5, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Xylazine - emerging cause of death in correctional institutions - Lasater M.
The unregulated veterinary drug xylazine is emerging as a cause of death in State Correctional facilities. Â Unlike the drug fentanyl, there is no antidote. The origins and toxicity of the drug are discussed and illustrated with a case study of an offender ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 5, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Opinion: 'Just say no' can kill kids. Teach them how to stay safe in the fentanyl era
Drug use has become deadlier for teens, and Southern California is an overdose hot spot. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - February 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Scott Hadland and Joseph Friedman Source Type: news
