Tag: naloxone
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America has lost the War on Drugs. Here’s what needs to happen next
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
For a forgotten moment, at the very start of the United States’ half-century long war on drugs, public health was the weapon of choice. Before long, the funding ratio between public health and crimin ...
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‘We’re making harm reduction cool’: overdose reversal Narcan becomes a rave essential
Friday, 31 December 2021
Fentanyl testing strips as well as the opioid-reversal drug naloxone (commonly known as Narcan) are becoming the sine qua non of the party scene, distributed everywhere cultural denizens hang out: ni ...
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US saw 100,000 drug overdose deaths in one year amid pandemic, CDC says
Wednesday, 17 November 2021
The estimated number of drug overdose deaths in the US during a 12-month period ending in April rose by 28.5% compared with the same period the year before, according to new provisional data released ...
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2020 was S.F.’s deadliest year for overdoses, by far
Friday, 15 January 2021
San Francisco lost a total of 699 people to overdoses last year, a 59% rise from 2019, according to new data released by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. That number is more than three times ...
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Overdoses are killing more people in Western Canada than COVID-19. B.C. has a bold new plan
Friday, 25 September 2020
Canada’s other epidemic, the opioids overdose crisis, is more deadly than ever this year. Deaths in British Columbia hit new highs over the spring, including a monthly record of 181 illicit drug toxi ...
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Secret US drug injection site shows how supervision could save lives
Wednesday, 08 July 2020
For five years, a secret supervised drug injection site has operated in the US, allowing drug users to inject more than 10,000 times in a sterile, protected environment. The illegal operation is mode ...
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Why overdose deaths have fallen here - despite more overdose
Tuesday, 14 January 2020
Roughly 66 times every single day in British Columbia, someone calls 911 for a suspected drug overdose. And 66 times every day, an operator answers one of those calls, assesses the situation, and dis ...
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Canada’s drug crisis has a solution. Politicians don’t like it
Sunday, 29 September 2019
A recent study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Addiction, found that a trio of policies adopted to combat the opioid overdose epidemic saved, combined, an estimated 3,030 lives in the Canadia ...
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Boom in overdose-reversing drug is tied to fewer drug deaths
Tuesday, 06 August 2019
Prescriptions of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone are soaring, and experts say that could be a reason overdose deaths have stopped rising for the first time in nearly three decades. The number of ...
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When harm reduction expansion stifles activism: A lesson from Europe
Tuesday, 23 July 2019
Western European harm reduction presents an interesting paradox. On the one hand, the widespread availability of effective harm reduction programs is laudable. Drug-related disease rates are low. Ove ...
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Tens of thousands of Americans die each year from opioid overdoses
Saturday, 23 February 2019
Drugs now kill about 70,000 Americans every year—more than car crashes or guns (both 39,000), more than AIDS did at the height of its epidemic (42,000), and more than all the American soldiers killed ...
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A promising way to help drug users is ‘severely lacking’ around the world, report says
Tuesday, 11 December 2018
Global funding for harm reduction programs is in “crisis,” according to the latest Global State of Harm Reduction report, potentially threatening the effectiveness of HIV, hepatitis and drug overdose ...
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Is Sweden's zero-tolerance approach to drugs a failing model?
Thursday, 17 May 2018
Sweden is accustomed to being praised for its forward-thinking approach, but there's one area where many feel it lies behind the curve. The country's "zero tolerance" policy towards drugs is an incre ...
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A huge step backward on opioids
Wednesday, 24 January 2018
The latest statistics on the overdose crisis -- roughly 64,000 deaths in the United States in 2016 -- also reveal that fentanyl and other synthetic opioids are now the driving force behind US overdos ...
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Drug injection rooms a resounding success
Tuesday, 26 May 2015
The drug injection rooms ('fixerum') that opened for customers some two and a half years ago in Denmark have been hailed as a resounding success. Out of the 355,255 injections that have taken place i ...
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Wider use of antidote could lower overdose deaths by nearly 50%
Monday, 04 February 2013
Around 15,000 people die each year by overdosing on opioid pain relievers such as Oxycontin, a rate that has more than tripled since 1990. The government has tried numerous strategies to reduce the d ...
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