Police Armed to Fight Overdoses
Police armed to fight overdoses
It won't be loaded with bullets, but with Narcan. Narcan blocks the effects of opiate drugs including morphine, heroin and prescription painkillers such as oxycodone, hydrocodone and methadone. It can save an overdose victim and has been used for years …
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Kicking Methadone With Johnny Winter
These notions may seem commonplace, but prevailing notions in the psychotherapeutic community had for too long hewed to a ludicrously outmoded symptomatic understanding of addiction; to quote Anna Freud, writing in 1966: “The behavior of addicts …
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Vancouver: Giving junkies a fix to keep them off the street
Thompson participated in two studies that provided access to the drug, which is administered following the protocol of a traditional treatment, like methadone. There was the North American Opiate Medication Initiative (NAOMI) from 2005 to 2008, he says …
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