Tag Archives: opioid crisis

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: The opioid crisis has stunted Canadian life expectancy. Let that sink in|the Globe & Mail Abhimanyu Sud is the director of Safer Opioid Prescribing at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine. Last week, Statistics Canada released a report documenting national trends in life expectancy. It is not a ...

Source: The Truth About Drug Dealers Lacing Cocaine with Fentanyl|Vice Authorities have spoken out about the threat of fentanyl in recreational drugs, but there’s reason to believe their claims are overblown. Last May, staff from New York City’s Department of Health and Hygiene toured bars and nightclubs to spread the word that ...

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: Peer support workers on front lines of the OD crisis need support too: Expert|CityNews1130.comOriginally published on August 12th 2018 VANCOUVER – Trey Helten has known almost every one of the 50 or so people he has treated for overdoses on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside since February. As a former heroin ...