Tag: Overdoses
With people abusing opioid-based drugs cross the country, a new study published by the Jama Internal Medicine suggests a safer alternative. In surveying death certificate data from every state between 1999 and 2010, research shows that states where weed can be legally prescribed to treat chronic pain have a 24.8% lower opioid overdose mortality rate. Three states (California, Oregon, and Washington) […]
In an expansion of a program that’s been running in Staten Island for about a month, cops across the city will begin carrying naloxone, a potentially life-saving drug that combats opiate overdoses. Given that heroin use is on the upswing nationwide and in NYC, it’s a prudent, laudable move. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office will subsidize […]
Opioid ODs now kill more people than car crashes. That’s a death around every half hour. In this epidemic, this public health disaster of our own creation, you can see why the FDA fast-tracked this new drug packaging. Naloxone or Narcan, is a powerful opioid antagonist. It runs to your brain, rips the fun out, […]
