Opioids
Tucker Carlson Pumped Full of Fentanyl, Emerges With New Understanding of the Opioid Crisis
“I just thought that was the most interesting fucking thing that had ever happened to me,” he said after emergency back surgery.
When Opioids Are the Cure to Depression and Psychache
While an overdose epidemic tears through the U.S., some users have found that opioids work as antidepressants. Is there a safe way to use them?
Amid Record Overdose Deaths, Canada’s North Opens First Safe Drug Consumption Site
Yukon had Canada’s highest overdose death rate in the first quarter of 2021.
Russia Has an Opioid Crisis Too – One of Untreated Pain
The groundbreaking work of one woman is helping Russian children in intense pain, and humanising healthcare in a country where historical and cultural legacies loom large.
Drug Users Are Being Sentenced to Forced Rehab. But Does It Work?
California could be come the latest lab in a nationwide experiment: Instead of sentencing drug users to jail, what if you sentenced them to rehab?
This Could Finally Be the First Drug Safe-Injection Site in the US
That is, if the feds and NIMBYs don’t block it.
How to Test Your Drugs for Fentanyl
Test strips are easy to use and can turn up synthetic opioids in heroin, cocaine, and other powders before you actually put them in your body.
How to Use Naloxone if Someone Is Overdosing on Opioids
What everyone should know about what this life-saving nasal spray is, where to get it, and what to do in case of an emergency.
America Has Been Through An Opioid Crisis Before
America’s first opioid crisis came after its bloodiest war, but the lessons of the original debacle have been lost in history.
Sewage Samples Reveal the Dutch, Australians Are Biggest Users of Synthetic Drugs
Study of wastewater around the 2019-20 New Year period reveals who is consuming which new psychoactive substances.
New Report Shows Major Increase in Overdose Deaths, and That Most Drug Users Are Dying Alone
The report on Ontario overdose deaths also suggests a disproportionate number of racialized drug users are dying during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Purdue Pharma, the Maker of OxyContin, Will Plead Guilty for Fueling the Opioid Crisis
The company will admit that it “knowingly and intentionally conspired and agreed with others to aid and abet” the use of its drugs.