Overdose

People Are Dying of Drug Overdoses, Despite Lifesaving Medications

Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D. | Posted 05.11.2012

Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D.

We have waged a war against drugs instead of formulating a science-based response to a public health epidemic for which a life-saving medication is available.

Keeping Alcohol in the Spotlight: 6 Facts

Deni Carise | Posted 05.02.2012

Deni Carise

Cocaine, heroin and now prescription drugs continue to occupy the headlines -- as indeed they should -- but alcohol deserves the same attention. Our nation's alcohol problem may not seem as scandalous, but it's just as serious.

Xanax Facts and Whitney Houston

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 02.22.2012

Dr. Peter Breggin

Reports that Xanax and other benzos are not usually lethal when taken alone are vastly misleading. Xanax is rarely taken alone. Why? Because as much or more than any other prescribed drug, Xanax causes medication spellbinding.

Police Find Body Outside Miami-Dade County Auditorium

Posted 03.12.2012

Miami police report that they have found a body outside the northwest corner of the Miami-Dade County Auditorium at 2901 W. Flagler Street. Officer Mo...

Gov. Cuomo Signs Law to Help Reduce Overdose Deaths

Gabriel Sayegh | Posted 09.23.2011

Gabriel Sayegh

A national crisis has emerged as the number of overdose deaths from both legal and illegal drugs has skyrocketed. Now New York is taking action to stem the crisis.

Program Supervising Illegal Drug Use Successfully Cut Overdose Rates

Posted 06.18.2011

North America's only sanctioned facility for injection of illegal drugs has cut overdose deaths and should be used as a model in other cities, accor...

Nicole John: Blog of Depressed, Partying, Now-Dead Teen Reads Like My Own Teen Diary

The Stir | Posted 11.17.2011

The Stir

Strip away the Xanax, the posh Manhattan nightlife, and the international lifestyle and the blog entries from hard-partying 17-year-old Nicole John co...

Smart Solutions to Overdose Can Save Lives

Gabriel Sayegh | Posted 05.25.2011

Gabriel Sayegh

New York lawmakers are now considering two very different approaches to address accidental overdose fatalities: One bill will most certainly make the problem worse, while the other will likely save lives.

Obama's New Rules For PTSD: How Much Trauma Is Enough?

Cilla McCain | Posted 05.25.2011

Cilla McCain

Will PFC Bailey have to carry around the emotional scars of her service to our nation (not to mention sexual assault) without any help from the people who sent her there?

Six Ways to Improve Electric Daisy Carnival

Joshua Glazer | Posted 05.25.2011

Joshua Glazer

I wrote this post as I watched the hysteria surrounding Electric Daisy Carnival hit the media. With one death and over 100 hospitalized, obviously some changes need to be made.

Moms Unite to End the War on Drugs

Gretchen Burns Bergman | Posted 05.25.2011

Gretchen Burns Bergman

Now is the time to demand an end to the pointless and punitive criminalization of people who use drugs.

In His New Book, Anna Nicole Smith Judge Urges New Police Probe

AP | MATT SEDENSKY | Posted 05.25.2011

MIAMI — The flamboyant judge brought to fame in the fight over Anna Nicole Smith's remains says he believes someone is guilty of manslaughter in...

Sebastian Horsley Dead: Eccentric UK Author Dies At 47 Of Suspected Overdose

AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER | Posted 05.25.2011

LONDON — Self-styled dandy and noted British eccentric Sebastian Horsley, who found fame by having himself nailed to a cross in the Philippines,...

Harm Reduction in the United States: Whose History? (Part 2)

Allan Clear | Posted 05.25.2011

Allan Clear

Yesterday I wrote about an editorial that was rejected by an academic journal in fall 2009 that outlined the history of harm reduction in the United ...

Harm Reduction in the United States: Whose History? (Part 1)

Allan Clear | Posted 05.25.2011

Allan Clear

In the fall of 2009, I was asked by an academic journal to contribute a 1,500 word editorial that outlined the history of harm reduction in the United...

AP Thinks Heroin's Got a Brand New Bag, Misses Story

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Maia Szalavitz

This kind of shallow reporting is why the media loses credibility -- a simple Google search or call to an academic expert on drugs or even a conversation with a long-time addict would reveal that $10 bags are not news.

What Really Killed Corey Haim?

Bonnie Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011

Bonnie Fuller

Corey doesn't appear to have died in a "typical" drug overdose. Here's what could really have gone tragically wrong with the former child star, according to a prominent internist.

Death Row Inmate Overdose Delays Lethal Injection

AP | MATT LEINGANG | Posted 05.25.2011

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Gov. Ted Strickland on Monday postponed the execution of a convicted killer who managed to take an overdose of pills in his dea...

Get Busy Committee on Changing the Face of Hip Hop Forever

Jon Chattman | Posted 05.25.2011

Jon Chattman

Lately, rap has been getting a bad rap because there's no true voice for the hip hop community. That changed last week when the Get Busy Committee dropped their new album Uzi Does It.

Robert Guskind, Gowanus Lounge Head, Death Deemed OD

Brooklyn Paper | Mike McLaughlin | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert Guskind, the prolific yet troubled force behind the Gowanus Lounge Web site, died of "an accidental overdose," from a combination of prescripti...

Michael Jackson and the Overdose Crisis in America

Jill Harris | Posted 11.17.2011

Jill Harris

If Michael Jackson's death was caused by an opioid overdose, it might have been averted had people close to him had access to a simple and reliable antidote: naloxone, otherwise known as Narcan.

Recent Heroin Surge: A Major Threat

Joshua Lyon | Posted 11.17.2011

Joshua Lyon

If you're hooked on an opiate, and you find that same high at a much cheaper price, it becomes much easier to justify using heroin.

Germany Approves Prescribing Heroin to Long-time Users Unable to Quit

Tony Newman | Posted 05.25.2011

Tony Newman

A new law has been approved allowing doctors to prescribe synthetic heroin to people with long-term drug addictions in an effort to reduce crime, overdose deaths and the spread of HIV.

Pharmaceutical Drug Pushers Lead to National Overdose

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 05.25.2011

Francesca Biller-Safran

I only hope that some woman is lucky enough to be with a man who becomes afflicted with one side effect Viagra claims, a condition known as priapism, ...