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.
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 02.07.2008 | Living
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.
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 02.06.2008 | Living
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.
Mark Kleiman | Posted 01.25.2008 | Living
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...
Mark Kleiman | Posted 01.25.2008 | Politics
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...
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 01.25.2008 | Living
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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Maia Szalavitz | Posted 02.11.2008 | Living