Tag Archives: drug politics

Source: How Joe Biden’s Policies Made the Opioid Crisis Harder to Treat|PoliticoOriginally published May 23rd 2019 For decades, he promoted the War on Drugs. Now, experts say Biden’s laws ended up worsening the opioid epidemic in the very places he says he can win in 2020.By ZACHARY SIEGEL In April, ...

Source: How drug decriminalization could help stem an epidemic of drug overdoses|The Globe & Mail Three years ago this month, British Columbia responded to the opioid crisis by declaring a public health emergency. The province took steps such as expanding supervised drug-consumption sites and distributing naloxone, an overdose-reversal medication. Estimates ...

Source: Don’t pin the opioid crisis just on Purdue. The guilt runs wide|The Guardian Purdue Pharma is rightly reviled for pushing ‘heroin in a pill’ to those who didn’t need it – but the problem is industry-wide Few will mourn Purdue Pharma if the drug maker is buried by the ...

Source: Canadians in small towns face alarmingly higher risk of opioid overdoses: report|the Globe & Mail Canadians who live in small cities face substantially higher risks of opioid overdoses than those who live in larger centres, according to new national data that expose how poverty, unemployment and other factors are ...

Source: Global State of Harm Reduction 2018|Harm Reduction International(HRI.global) Global State of Harm Reduction 2018 The 2018 Global State of Harm Reduction is the sixth edition of this report, and the most comprehensive ever thanks to a coordinated effort of over 100 harm reduction practitioners, academics, advocates and activists from around the world. ...

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 ...