Drug, Alcohol and Mental Health Treatment
Author challenges current opioid treatment paradigmAs the opioid crisis continues to plague every demographic across all 50 states, unfortunately the current treatment paradigms remain stubbornly stuck in outdated preconceptions and approaches. Writing in the NY Times, author Maia Szalavitz challenges current ... Read More
Framingham hit by wave of overdosesThe footprints that fentanyl-laced heroin leaves behind are easy to see on the map, marking a grim cluster of overdose and death. Authorities in Framingham, Mass. are looking at such a map this week as a bad batch of heroin makes it way through the area. As reported by ... Read More
Potent New Opioids Raise AlarmInvestigators in Georgia have confirmed the first death brought on by a dangerous cocktail of drugs known as "Gray Death." Gray Death is a combination of several opioids, including heroin, fentanyl, carfentanil -- sometimes used to tranquilize large animals like elephants -- and a ... Read More
National Opioid Settlement Might Be Reached in 2018As the opioid crisis has exploded over the last few years, countless communities have entered lawsuits against the pharma manufacturers who pushed addictive opioid-based painkillers. Now it appears that these suits might be consolidated in a national settlement. As ... Read More
Infant in backseat while parents OD in front of carIt's a scene that has become all too common in the past few years - parents overdosed in the car with young children in the back. As reported by WSAZ, a man and woman were found unresponsive and unconscious in the front seats of a car in Huntington West Virginia ... Read More
"Narcan is cheaper than a funeral" in St. Tammany ParishAs has happened all across the nation, fentanyl is taking a deadly toll this week in St. Tammany Parish, leaving three dead and many more at risk. As reported by WDSU, the St. Tammany Parish Coroner Dr. Charles Preston is cautioning residents about a recent and ... Read More
Southwest Florida reeling from opioid crisisCape Coral is set on a picture perfect stretch along the Gulf Coast of Florida, but it's also at the center of a surging opioid crisis that has claimed thousands of lives all across the Sunshine State. As reported in the News-Press, overdoses, (a majority of which are not ... Read More
Zombie Staten Island firefighter busted for Chinese fentanyl Anthony Murino, an NY firefighter, is heading to rehab after being arrested for buying fentanyl on the dark web from China . As reported by the NY Daily News, Murino appeared zombie-like in court , and is now headed to rehab — on the taxpayer’s dime, ... Read More
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