Can a methadone-dispensing robot free up nurses and improve patient care? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/10/methadone-robot-nursing #Technology #Opioids #Nursing #USnews #Health
Can a methadone-dispensing robot free up nurses and improve patient care? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/10/methadone-robot-nursing #Technology #Opioids #Nursing #USnews #Health
The increasing use of highly potent #synthetic #opioids has led to calls for fixed #pill #testing sites and access to overdose-countering naloxone.
They don't really come out saying they want anyone using any drugs to die. But they do.
Carney does no have a drug policy planned out. This is unfortunate, especially when there is a risk of Canada moving right of center with a banker in power. We will continue to see drug users ignored by our governments.
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.
Walgreens agrees to pay US up to $350m for illegally filling opioid prescriptions https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/22/walgreens-opioid-lawsuit-settlement #Pharmaceuticalsindustry #Opioidscrisis #Business #Opioids #Law(US) #USnews
Dominic Lawson is a pratt, more inconsequential one than his father. However broken clocks etc..
In this case opioids. It was an epidemic homegrown, supported by US companies and at least in the beginning aided and abetted by the medical ‘industry’ and the judiciary. Capitalism on the rampage and hang the consequences.
Incidentally the obscenely rich family who owned the drug pushers are still obscenely rich.
Adjunctive ketamine vs. buprenorphine in co-occurring major depressive disorder and opioid use disorder: a randomized, double-blind clinical trial assessing anxiety symptom severity and craving intensity (Mansoori, et al, 2025) #ketamine #addiction #recovery #opioids #depression #anxiety #ketaminetherapy #buprenorphine #psychedelic #psychedelics #psychedelicresearch #mentalhealth https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40247293/
Favorite music triggers opioid releases in the brain.
Summary: https://neurosciencenews.com/music-chills-opioids-neuroscience-28657/
Original paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00259-025-07232-z
Music therapy can be effective for treatment of pain and mental health issue.
Summary: https://neurosciencenews.com/alzheimers-anxiety-music-28655/
Original paper (not open access): https://www.npjournal.org/article/S1555-4155(25)00032-7/abstract
Apropos: https://acousticguitar.com/watch-mason-williams-play-classical-gas/
This new feature is months in the making, and it's just the beginning of our reporting on how these opioid settlement funds are flowing through cities and towns ...
Animal tranquilizers found in 1/3 of illegal #opioids in the US may render naloxone ineffective, potentially leading to more overdose deaths. A pharmacy practice professor explains: https://buff.ly/JYcV8Bd
Painkillers without the addiction? The new wave of non-opioid pain relief https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/05/painkillers-without-the-addiction-the-new-wave-of-non-opioid-pain-relief #Pharmaceuticalsindustry #Science #Opioids #Drugs
(02 Apr) Hit Hard by Opioid Crisis, Black Patients Further Hurt by Barriers to Care
https://s.faithcollapsing.com/ki1yc
Archive: ais: https://archive.md/wip/sTewA ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/hhtln
#disparities #north-carolina #opioids #pharmaceuticals #public-health #race-and-health #states #substance-misuse #systemic-sickness
Like many, I have to limit my intake of news but this morning I learn about cuts at #HHS and Kennedy saying that Americans aren't healthy so things need to change in the government. Are Americans not healthy because of statisticians at HHS? What about food policy and food deserts? What about poverty and inequitable access to #healthcare? What about #opioids and the Sacklers? It's easy to blame #bureaucrats but is that where the problem lies?
Nine Ontario supervised consumption sites will close today, despite a recent court injunction allowing them to remain open temporarily.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/consumption-sites-ontario-1.7498128?cmp=rss
Reluctant opium farmers toil for survival in war-ravaged Myanmar
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/11/asia-pacific/crime-legal/opium-farming-myanmar-war/
