Overdose

What Heath Ledger's Masseuse Should Have Known: How to Save an Overdose Victim

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 02.11.2008 | Living


Maia Szalavitz

People shouldn't use opioids recreationally -- but if you have a loved one who doesn't follow that advice, here's information that may can keep them alive until they realize why that advice is so good.

Overdose and Heath Ledger, Part III: Shame About Addiction Should Not Obscure Truth About How Drugs Kill

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 02.07.2008 | Living


Maia Szalavitz

It's conceivable that Ledger had an incompetent doctor, but the more parsimonious explanation, given his history of recreational drug use, is that he was not following doctor's orders at all.

How Not to Die Like Heath Ledger, Part II

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 02.06.2008 | Living


Maia Szalavitz

Naloxone should be kept in every first aid kit. Even when overdoses involve multiple drugs, simply taking away the effect of the opioid is often all that is needed to revive the victim.

Killing in the name of public health

Mark Kleiman | Posted 01.25.2008 | Living


Mark Kleiman

The Office of National Drug Control Policy prefers dead heroin addicts to living heroin addicts. At least, it's hard to put any other interpretation...

Compassion

Mark Kleiman | Posted 01.25.2008 | Politics


Mark Kleiman

The Office of National Drug Control Policy is working hard to make sure that opiate addicts keep dying of overdoses. Do you find that hard to believ...

What We Can Learn from Heath Ledger's Death: Don't Mix Downs!!!

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 01.25.2008 | Living


Maia Szalavitz

If I could only impart one lesson about reducing overdose risk, it would be this: Don't take "depressant" drugs -- drugs that make you calm or sleepy -- in combination with each other.


 

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