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Supervised consumption sites have real shortcomings. But the government’s case for closing them relies on a narrow definition of success and abandons the people the sites were designed to reach.
Naloxone is a safe and effective medication used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. It can be administered to dogs in either the nasal spray or injection formulations.
The steepest rise in opioid overdose deaths is among those aged 40 to 69.
Workplaces across the country are becoming safe and supportive places for people with substance use issues.
Opioid overdoses are now complicated by a powerful animal tranquilliser.
Increasingly, these types of tranquilizers are turning up in fentanyl, oxycodone and other illegal opioids.
Naloxone, known by brand names Nyxoid or Narcan, rapidly reverses the depression of the central nervous and respiratory systems caused by opioids.
Regulating drugs may seem radical, but taking the production and sale of currently illegal drugs away from organized crime and drug cartels is the most promising way to keep our communities safe.
Initially developed in the 1950s, nitazenes are a type of synthetic opioid that has reappeared in Philadelphia’s street drug supply.
An anthropologist who wrote a book exploring meth’s impact on rural communities explains what drove the epidemic and how it’s changed.
Calls to destigmatize language around drug addiction must be combined with action to change policies that stigmatize people in early recovery.
An overdose death in Boulder County, Colorado, was linked to a powerful new formulation of a designer drug never approved for use in humans.
Taking MDMA can raise our body temperature higher than it should be. Extreme heat may compound this effect.
Long-acting injectable buprenorphine is also known by the brand names Buvidal or Sublocade.
Higher levels of income inequality in youth are associated with increased ‘deaths of despair’ in young Canadians.
The flesh-eating drug Xylazine is causing havoc in the US. Now it’s in the UK.
Xylazine, or tranq, is increasingly being mixed with drugs like fentanyl or heroin and can be difficult to detect. Most people who use drugs are unable to tell if they have been exposed to it.
There are around 200 supervised injection facilities around the world but the UK government remains opposed to their introduction
The UK could learn from the kind of action Scotland is taking on drug deaths.
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Professor, Mental Health and Addiction, Rural Health Research Institute, Charles Sturt University
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Professor of Emergency Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School
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Professor at the National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW
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Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of Connecticut
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Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Virginia
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Emeritus Consultant, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst
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