Penn State: New website shows how opioid settlement funds are helping Pennsylvanians. “Researchers at Penn State previously aided the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in determining how to allocate the funds. Now, the team — along with colleagues at Temple University and the University of Pittsburgh — has published a new website that provides detailed, county-level information about how the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/12/penn-state-new-website-shows-how-opioid-settlement-funds-are-helping-pennsylvanians/

More than 100 local governments in Washington are now eligible to claim their share of $122.2 million in settlements with Purdue Pharma and eight generic opioid manufacturers, the Washington state attorney general’s office said Monday.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/another-122m-from-opioid-settlements-now-available-to-washington
#KUOW #News #Opioids #OpioidCrisis #HealthCare #HealthCare

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/06/supportive-housing-first-homelessness-opioid-use-public-health-cost “You also save a bunch of lives, first from having fewer people who are addicted, and then also because people who are homeless have a much higher mortality rate” #PublicHealth #homelessness #housing #HousingFirst #OpioidCrisis

#OpioidCrisis #SchoolShootings #SuicideDeaths #Anxiety #Depression #BehavioralHealthCrisis #PoliticalCrisis all manifestations of our underlying #CausalityCrisis #EnergyNetworkScience #OnePlanet #OneWorld #OneSociety

#OpioidCrisis #SchoolShootings #SuicideDeaths #Anxiety #Depression #BehavioralHealthCrisis all manifestations of our underlying #CausalityCrisis #EnergyNetworkScience #OnePlanet #OneWorld #OneSociety

Naloxone, education and access turned the tide in Colorado's opioid crisis, experts say

“I can’t put words to what it has felt like to lose a son to something that he experimented with.” – Anthony Alvarado

https://sentinelcolorado.com/metro/naloxone-education-and-access-turned-the-tide-in-colorados-opioid-crisis-experts-say/

Naloxone, education and access turned the tide in Colorado's opioid crisis, experts say

“I can’t put words to what it has felt like to lose a son to something that he experimented with.” – Anthony Alvarado

https://sentinelcolorado.com/metro/naloxone-education-and-access-turned-the-tide-in-colorados-opioid-crisis-experts-say/

Naloxone, education and access turned the tide in Colorado's opioid crisis, experts say

'I can’t put words to what it has felt like to lose a son to something that he experimented with'

https://sentinelcolorado.com/metro/naloxone-education-and-access-turned-the-tide-in-colorados-opioid-crisis-experts-say/

Naloxone, education and access turned the tide in Colorado's opioid crisis, experts say

'I can’t put words to what it has felt like to lose a son to something that he experimented with'

https://sentinelcolorado.com/metro/naloxone-education-and-access-turned-the-tide-in-colorados-opioid-crisis-experts-say/

ICYMI - 'I just want to make sure we’re not promoting any sort of, you know, safe injection sites, and for me, that kind of teeters on that'

https://buff.ly/Y4itho2

ICYMI - 'I just want to make sure we’re not promoting any sort of, you know, safe injection sites, and for me, that kind of teeters on that'

https://buff.ly/Y4itho2

Aurora lawmakers question naloxone vending machines for opioid overdose prevention

'I just want to make sure we’re not promoting any sort of, you know, safe injection sites, and for me, that kind of teeters on that'

https://sentinelcolorado.com/metro/aurora-lawmakers-question-naloxone-vending-machines-for-opioid-overdose-prevention/

Aurora lawmakers question naloxone vending machines for opioid overdose prevention

'I just want to make sure we’re not promoting any sort of, you know, safe injection sites, and for me, that kind of teeters on that'

https://sentinelcolorado.com/metro/aurora-lawmakers-question-naloxone-vending-machines-for-opioid-overdose-prevention/

Route Fifty: South Carolina database makes addiction treatment measurement accessible. “A new website, created by the South Carolina Center of Excellence in Addiction, makes it easier for state and local leaders, health care providers, researchers, and citizens to understand how well opioid use disorder treatment is working in their communities. The website provides an example of how states […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/22/route-fifty-south-carolina-database-makes-addiction-treatment-measurement-accessible/

And yes, #Fentanyl is so dangerous, even most #Darknet #Markets and #Forums ban that shit for that reason alone and #dealers started to offer free Test Kits to check for it in their merchandise.

• Cuz it's one thing to draw attention for a #VictimlessCrime but having an actual body count escalates things very quickly, cuz then it's not a "narcotics" but a "murder" division taking on the cases!

OFC, this is due to the #OpioidCrisis started with #Oxycontin / #Oxycodon and #criminalization isn't helping anyone.

• What is needed is #HarmReduction and #Outreach efforts, but that would require a different #Government not just in the #USA!

Must-read from March 2025: Grünenthal marketed its opioid tapentadol as a “safer” painkiller, but global addiction rates tell a different story. Investigative report by @theexamination reveals the real risks. Stay informed! https://www.theexamination.org/articles/gruenenthal-pushed-its-latest-opioid-as-a-safer-option-people-around-the-world-got-hooked #OpioidCrisis #HealthNews #PharmaEthics #oldnewz

We need to stop this idea that drug diversion of any kind is bad. If safe supply is diverted, it means safe supply is supplanting illicitly produced drugs. It means people are safer.

Diversion of safe supply is still safe supply.

Adam Zivo: B.C.'s lenient drug policies haven't helped opioid crisis
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/adam-zivo-surprise-b-c-s-lenient-drug-policies-havent-helped-opioid-crisis

"A new peer-reviewed study has found that British Columbia’s “safer supply” policy was associated with a statistically significant increase in opioid hospitalizations with no reduction in deaths."

#drugs #OpioidCrisis #BC #bcpoli
#CanPol #cdnpoli #elxn45
#NationalPost

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-coroner-new-approach-to-overdose-crisis-1.7483956 #OpioidCrisis