Calif. sees first #fentanyl murder conviction after 15-year-old's fatal overdose

>A 21-year-old #California man pleaded guilty to a second-degree murder charge on Friday after a 15-year-old girl died in June 2022 from an overdose linked to a fentanyl-laced pill that he gave her, officials said. The Placer County District Attorney’s Office said this is the first fentanyl murder conviction in California.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/calif-man-convicted-of-murder-after-teen-overdose-18190027.php #opiodcrisis

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

#BritishColumbia #HealthAuthority on #VancouverIsland is #testing new #technology inside #washrooms to help #SaveLives of people using #IllicitDrugs .
#IslandHealth has installed #MotionDetecting #sensors that track how long a person has occupied the bathroom & whether they are moving at six locations which have been identified as #GighRisk spaces for #DrugPoisoning .

https://globalnews.ca/news/9561362/island-health-overdose-detector-trial/amp/

#VIHA #OpiodCrisis #StopTheStigma #HelpDontJudge #overdoses #VictoriaBC #yyj #vanisle #VancouverIsland

A woman with A POSSIBLY DISLOCATED HIP has been waiting for 3.4 hours now for the ambulance.. (Ottawa area)

The EMS have been super busy today.. My scanner stream can't keep up.. Lots of ODs, people found unconscious.. ALS has been unavailable a lot recently.

We have to do better :(

https://youtube.com/live/WWYperUQHTk

Just want to clarify that this is NOT the fault of the overworked paramedics, doctors, nurses, and other health care workers..

This is the fault of the government and, by proxy, the people who voted for them.

#FirstResponders #EMS #Ottawa #OnPoli #CanPoli #HealthCare #HealthCareCrisis #Canada #LiveStream #live #youtuber #DrugCrisis #OpiodCrisis

“When the doctors switched off the life support machines, his mom climbed into bed beside him and I held my son’s hand as he passed away,” Puerta says. “This wasn’t an overdose because Daniel didn’t know what he was taking. He was intentionally deceived. He was poisoned.”

#Fentanyl #OpiodCrisis

https://www.ft.com/content/bd1b1614-8407-4447-a0e3-3723368fbbf8

Today is 5 years since I lost my brother to an opioid addiction. He left behind two young boys & a giant hole in my big family. These dates don’t usually hit my grief any harder than a normal day. But 5 years just seems like so little time and an entire lifetime at once. #grief #loss #opiods #OpiodCrisis

Testimony of Sam Rivera of NY OPC (overdose prevention site) to SF gov.
#harmreduction #recovery #RecoveryPosse #OpiodCrisis
0-3:12:00 [session] Sam Rivera [45:30-2:01:00]
https://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/player/clip/42751?view_id=192&redirect=true&h=83d1086618d4974fef0f132af7580bcf

I recommend watching the HBO documentary on the pharma role in the #opiodcrisis that has killed thousands, for an eye opener on the corporate culture and structures involved in legalised drug pushing. Puts the following thread in perspective
https://www.hbo.com/the-crime-of-the-century
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RT @KanekoaTheGreat
1/ THREAD🚨 #PfizerFiles

Pfizer has habitually engaged in illegal and corrupt marketing practices, bribed physicians, & sup…
https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1610375042940153856

"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

@Trapd@mstdn.ca Cuthand always nails it, IMHO. The mean-spirited cruel conservative govts on the Prairies are killing people, especially poor and marginalized. #opiodCrisis #HarmReduction #Addiction #skpoli #abpoli

Looking forward to seeing #NanGoldin https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/nan-goldins-art-addiction-and-activism-in-all-the-beauty-and-the-bloodshed #opiodcrisis #photography #activism

Looking forward to seeing #NanGoldin https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/nan-goldins-art-addiction-and-activism-in-all-the-beauty-and-the-bloodshed #opiodcrisis #photography #activism

Required reading on the #OpiodCrisis in #Quebec / #Canada. https://rover.substack.com/p/the-death-of-an-advocate

A year on, how has Wu done on Mass. and Cass?
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/11/22/metro/year-how-has-wu-done-mass-cass/

Grateful to @wutrain and the folks at Pine Street and Shattuck for their heroic efforts; hopeful to see fewer needles in Franklin Park, and fewer services clustered in Roxbury, Dorchester, etc.

#Boston #MayorWu #Homelessness #OpiodCrisis

(Via @jenstden)
One in three BC construction workers report problematic substance use.

“Everybody is a tough guy. And they’re scared to not be a tough guy. They’re scared to be the one with the problem,” said Trevor Botkin, a carpenter who stopped using drugs in 2019. “Using the drugs is fine. But being addicted, that’s dirty.”

https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/11/15/Drugs-Death-Denial-Job/

#OpiodCrisis #BC #bcnews

http://grwp24hodrefzvjjuccrkw3mjq4tzhaaq32amf33dzpmuxe7ilepcmad.onion/watch?v=i8p215_-kuA

#documentary #film #LauraPoitras
#AllTheBeautyAndTheBloodshed

#opiodcrisis #SacklerFamilyTHUGS

The only #Opiodcrisis is the one involving #whitecollarpushers. But those of us using these "quality of life enhancing" therapies are, of course, who pay the price for the sins of the wealthy.

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