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The fact-checking company RFK Jr. said that anti-depressants are harder to quit than heroin
Maia Szalavitz, an author who used heroin and other drugs before entering recovery, has said US President-elect Joe Kennedy’s plan to treat addiction as a sin would be an “enormous step backward”. “We have been trying to get people to take up medications that we know will cut their death risk in half, and he…
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Philadelphia’s street drugs are a bigger part of the US’s addiction crisis
A Philadelphia-based harm-reduction group said that people who used street fentanyl to get heroin started to have major wounds that were different from typical injection drug use. Sarah Laurel, the harm-reduction group’s founder, said that people were coming to Kensington to buy heroin, but they were also coming to get heroin with fentanyl added to…
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We can save lives
The US has a long way to go before it is free of opioid addiction, according to a report by Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Health. “We have a long way to go, but I hope we do,” US Senator Sam Tonko said. The report stated that the US would need to spend over…
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Experts say ‘rainbow Fentanyl’ isn’t a threat to your kids.
Fentanil, a synthetic opioid 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine, is a new threat for teens, according to a US official. “We’re foregoing good…basic public health and safety information that could be used to Reverse overdoses, link people to treatment and save lives,” he added. DEA has seized…