This music festival season, stay on the fun side of the medical tent with this advice
As a veteran of more than 20 music festivals, Los Angeles law student Christian Langston has seen a little bit of everything.
Apr 16, 2025
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Heterocyclic Compounds: News and Research on Naloxone
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Animal tranquilizers found in illegal opioids may suppress the lifesaving medication naloxone
The animal tranquilizers xylazine and medetomidine are in approximately one-third of the illegal opioids available in the U.S., including fentanyl, heroin and oxycodone. Animal tranquilizers enhance the user's euphoric high ...
Apr 7, 2025
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Heroin found in cocaine and 'ice,' and snorting a line can be lethal
Authorities in New South Wales and Victoria have been warning the public about worrying cases of heroin overdoses after people thought they had taken cocaine or methamphetamine.
Apr 5, 2025
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Medetomidine is replacing xylazine in Philly street fentanyl, creating new hurdles for health care providers
Philadelphia's street opioid supply—or "dope" market—is constantly changing. As health care workers and researchers who care for people who use drugs in our community, we have witnessed these shifts firsthand.
Mar 26, 2025
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Fewer than half of Medicaid managed care plans provide all FDA-approved medications for alcohol use disorder
As health complications and deaths from alcohol use disorder (AUD) increase in the United States, it is critical that people who could benefit from medications have access to the drugs that the US Food and Drug Administration ...
Mar 17, 2025
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Optimizing public placement of naloxone kits to save lives
Making it easy to access naloxone kits to reverse the effects of opioid poisoning will help save lives, according to research published in theCanadian Medical Association Journal) that looks at the best placements for these ...
Mar 17, 2025
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Incidents of children being poisoned by fentanyl have risen in the US, national data show
Incidents of children in the US being poisoned by the synthetic opioid fentanyl "increased and became more severe," a new study reveals.
Mar 8, 2025
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Who carries and uses naloxone in the US? Study addresses lack of nationwide data
A new USC-led study provides the first nationwide picture of who knows about, carries, and uses naloxone to reverse deadly opioid overdoses.
Mar 3, 2025
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An ice rink to fight opioid crisis: Drug-free fun vs. misuse of settlement cash
A Kentucky county nestled in the heart of Appalachia, where the opioid crisis has wreaked devastation for decades, spent $15,000 of its opioid settlement money on an ice rink.
Feb 26, 2025
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Novel tool slashes opioid crisis costs by 30%, could save lives
A study published in the journal Decision Analysis unveils a powerful new tool to tackle the opioid crisis, offering a pathway to slash costs by nearly 30% while saving lives.
Feb 20, 2025
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