#JamieLeeCurtis Opens up About Her #Addiction to #Opiates, Says She’d Be “Dead” if #Fentanyl Was “as Easily Available as It Is Today on the Street”
https://decider.com/2023/07/28/jamie-lee-curtis-opens-up-addiction-opiates-would-be-dead-fentanyl/

The Onion: Hospital Offers Free Healthcare To Anyone Who Beats 500-Milligram Morphine Challenge https://www.theonion.com/hospital-offers-free-healthcare-to-anyone-who-beats-500-1850599263 #secondarymetabolites #healthmedicalpharma #euphoriants #cecilayers #morphine #phenols #opiates #opiate #heroin

https://cbdhempoil.review/benefits-of-kratom/ Kratom interacts with your brain’s opioid receptors and that is why many people are using it to relieve pain or even overcome opioid addiction (including those on prescription medicines.) It is used for cognitive enhancement, insomnia, pain relief, anxiety, epilepsy, seizures, relaxation, stress relief, and feeling of euphoria. It is safe and effective, particularly when taken in small doses and is very cost effective compared to CBD. #kratom #cbd #pain #insomnia #opiates

yeesh. a fake hydrocodone showed up on DrugsData. 4 parts flouro-fentanyl :crazy:

I maintain, pills or not, right now is perhaps the worst time in human history to be into opiates.

#harmreduction #staysafe #opiates #dope

This is a great book for pre-teens/teens… Protect Yourself: A Message for Every Young Person - Real Life stories of Fentanyl Tragedies https://a.co/d/3r9unpC#addiction #overdose #opiates #drugs

You know what's kinda funny — Xylazine is officially more of a public health danger than fentanyl and its analogs. :crazy:

#harmreduction #philly #opiates #fentanyl

The fact that we need this indicates how big the problem is in America.
#Opiates #Addiction #Overdose
https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/04/05/dc-health-is-deploying-narcan-vending-machines-to-prevent-opioid-overdose-deaths/

So hospitals are still sneakily testing expectant mothers for #opiates and acting all weird on the results.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/20/mothers-positive-drug-tests-poppy-seed-bagels

Well, that's nice. Not. I wonder if anyone now has a record over this, & if they requested an expungement?
"Two US mothers sue hospitals over drug tests after eating poppy seed bagels"
"New Jersey mothers allege hospitals performed tests without consent and say poppy seeds were reason for false positive results"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/20/mothers-positive-drug-tests-poppy-seed-bagels
#kids #hospitals #parenting #drugUse #poppies #poppySeed #opiates #drugTesting #NJ #NewJersey #morphine #ACLU

#stoned #proper #burd #addict #addiction #opiates #poetry #poetrycommunity #poem #poems #poemoftheday #words #mywords #truth #drugs #high #myheadhurts

All The Beauty And The Bloodshed has sent me down a Sackler/opiates wormhole.

These are two unmissable pieces

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/05/the-addicts-next-door

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a12775932/sackler-family-oxycontin/

#Sacklers
#Opiates

#Kratom legislation is trending. Proposed #MSLeg would add kratom to #ScheduleI substances. Kratom is considered by some as #opiates because it activates the same receptors in the brain that opiates, such as morphine and heroin, activate.
#opioidcrisis
https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1505940

Canada's province of British Columbia is starting a first-in-the-nation trial decriminalizing small amounts of hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin.

#Canada #decriminalization #cocaine #heroin #mdma #meth #opiates

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64461983

Another one to watch. These things don't tend to go well in healthcare

Missouri drug monitoring program taps Bamboo Health for operations

Every state but Missouri has operated a statewide prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) for years.

Bamboo Health says it will transition the existing Saint Louis County PDMP, which covers about 85% of the state, to a new statewide PDMP – without a complicated data migration process.

#HealthIT #opiates #addiction

https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/missouri-drug-monitoring-program-taps-bamboo-health-operations

No one ever told me that I might get 2 of my wisdom teeth out at age 60. Thought I'd dodged that one. Was prescribed Vicodin. I took one. How's your week going so far?
#teeth #opiates #painmanagement

#91 Marek Kohn - Narcomania: On Heroin. Faber & Faber, London, 1987, 1st edition. #Heroin #Opiates #Drugs #MarekKohn #FaberAndFaber #BookOfTheDay

FAR too many people dying in this country bc of the opioid epidemic —we need effective drugs to combat this, ASAP. The FDA just fast-tracked Revive, an opioid-reversal drug,

⭐️ the nasal formulation reportedly yields 3x⬆️ blood levels vs IM shots.

Now #EmergentBiosolutions , let’s just make sure the drug is affordable (RX version selling for ~$100💰💰💰) so that the folks whose lives may depend on this, get access. #opioidepidemic #savelives #opiates

https://on.wsj.com/3GyzV6J

American life expectancy is now at its lowest in nearly two decades

"deaths from COVID-19 and drug overdoses, most notably synthetic opioids like fentanyl, were the primary drivers of the drop in life expectancy."

#MedMastodon #Addiction #Opiates

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/12/22/1144864971/american-life-expectancy-is-now-at-its-lowest-in-nearly-two-decades

(Reposted from the toxic bird – some oldies but I hope goodies)

Re: #opiates #pharma

October 21, 2020: Interviewed on

The Rick Smith Show
Regarding: The Opiate Crisis, Purdue Pharma Settlement & COVID

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1YqKDpgljoDKV

RT @IrnaPhillips@twitter.com

HABIT FORMING: DRUG ADDICTION IN AMERICA, 1776-1914 has arrived & it looks great! Thank u @OUPHistory@twitter.com Focus: Addiction when Americans could, for the most part, buy #opiates, #cannabis & #cocaine legally. @PointsHistory@twitter.com @drughistory@twitter.com @Museumofdrugs@twitter.com @SHEARites@twitter.com @shgape@twitter.com @TUHistoryDept@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/IrnaPhillips/status/1601634066486677505