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Source: Don’t keep naloxone kit in your car this winter, health advocate warns|CBC.ca Drug becomes less effective when it’s exposed to temperatures below 5 C As temperatures begin to drop, health officials are war ning British Columbians not to keep naloxone kits in their cars. The medication, which can reverse a ...

Source: The opioid epidemic’s first corporate casualty may be a drugmaker that helped fuel the crisis|the Star.com Sitting in a Boston courtroom in a dark, pinstriped suit, the former top sales executive at Insys Therapeutics Inc., Alec Burlakoff, listened as federal prosecutors read out crimes he and the company had allegedly ...

Source: The Other Side of the Opioid Epidemic: Chronic Pain Patients|the Fix.com “It is borderline genocide,” said DeLuca, 37. “You are allowing [chronic pain patients] to go home and essentially suffer until they kill themselves.” Last year, Lauren DeLuca went to the emergency room in the middle of the night, ...

Source: A Super-Spicy Plant Could Help End the Opioid Crisis|Futurism.com It’s 10,000 times hotter than the world’s hottest pepper. Watch Your Tongue You probably don’t go around biting into plants covered in needles. But if you happened to chomp down on Euphorbia resinifera, a cactus-like plant also known as the resin spurge, ...

Source: Naloxone 101: Frontlines of the opioid crisis|the Concordian Saving lives and breaking down stigmas with public education “I’m here today because there isn’t a very effective public education program,” said Richard Davy, a first-year social work student at McGill, after wrapping up the first in a series of naloxone ...

Source: After a deadly day in Windsor’s opioid crisis, front-line workers mourn one of their own – then soldier on|Globe & Mail Originally published November 16th, 2018 Within 24 hours, four men in Ontario’s auto capital died of suspected overdoses – including one of the support workers who helped some of ...