If you'd like to be better informed about the roots and genesis of the Opiod crisis I recommend Alex Gibney's excellent, searing, heartbreaking - documentary 2 part series "The Crime of the Century"

https://libremdb.iket.me/title/tt14055432

#Opiod #OpiodCrisis #Overdose #Fentanyl #documentary

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/18/1176830906/overdose-death-2022-record

#Opiod #OpiodCrisis #Overdose #Fentanyl

#FDA approves #overdose #reversing #Narcan for sale without #prescription. Move seen as a key strategy to control the US #overdose #crisis, which has been linked to more than 100,000 deaths a year https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-over-counter-naloxone-nasal-spray #OTC #naloxone #opiod #overdoses

Populations in counties w a prescription drug-related opioid epidemic tend to be small, remote, older, mostly white, former farm/factory areas in decline since 1990s. By contrast, heroin and opioid syndemic counties tend to be more urban, connected to interstates, ethnically diverse, and in general more economically secure. County data provided.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33814639

#DeathsofDespair #NICHDImpact #Opiod #Heroin #Drugs #SubstanceAbuse #Urban #Rural

"The Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Thursday against AmerisourceBergen, one of the country’s largest pharmaceutical distributors, accusing the company of knowingly distributing opioids that were later resold illegally."

#OpiodCrisis #opiod

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/us/politics/amerisourcebergen-opioids-lawsuit.html

The team at STAT picked this NYT piece on the opiod crisis as one of the top stories of the year.

Surprising absolutely no one, McKinsey made a buck from it

'Opana’s manufacturer, the pharmaceutical company Endo, had scaled back promotion of the drug. But months later, the company abruptly changed course, refocusing resources on the drug by assigning more sales representatives.

The push was known internally as the Sales Force Blitz — and it was conducted with consultants at McKinsey & Company, who had been hired by Endo to provide marketing advice about its chronic-pain medicines and other products.'

#Opiod #OpiodCrisis

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/29/business/mckinsey-opioid-crisis-opana.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share

Walmart offers $3bn to settle lawsuits over role in opioid crisis
https://aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/15/walmart-offers-3bn-to-settle-lawsuits-over-role-in-opioid-crisis #opiod

So wow, at last: B.C. to offer Canada's first, permanent safe drug supply in response to overdose crisis

https://vancouversun.com/health/b-c-to-offer-canadas-first-safe-drug-supply-in-response-to-overdose-crisis

#Vancouver #BritishColumbia #Canada #drugs #opiod #fentanyl #SafeSupply

No criminal charges will be filed in relation to Prince's...death...of an accidental fentanyl overdose after taking counterfeit Vicodin pills that were laced with fentanyl...
#opiod #crisis #opiodcrisis #music
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/19/us/prince-death-investigation/index.html

This makes total sense to me: give opiod users clean drugs, so that they don't need to take street drugs that are laced with fentanyl and god knows what else.

https://www.straight.com/news/1004536/no-break-fentanyl-deaths-prompts-bc-speed-efforts-get-clean-drugs-long-term-opioid

#opiod #fentanyl #heroin #hydromorphone #overdose
#Vancouver #BC #Canada