The solution to death from a fentanyl overdose could lie in its chemical structure
Over the past few decades, the opioid epidemic has gripped the United States, fueled in large part by the over-prescription ...
Dublin’s crack cocaine epidemic: ‘You get a rush. You come down. And then you have to go again’
Crack cocaine is the new heroin, say addicts and frontline support workers, its use and widespread availability an epidemic ...
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Recovery Ministries Try to Help Portland Get Clean
After an attempt to decriminalize drugs made the addiction crisis in Oregon even worse, local Christians are pleading with ...
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Intranasal Use of Drugs in the Emergency Room and Pre-Hospital Arenas
To understand why IN medication administration is such an effective method of drug delivery, it is important to appreciate the structure and ... (such as naloxone and flumazenil, respectively ...
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Access to naloxone still challenging in Australia, with stigma and knowledge gaps within pharmacy sector creating barriers
In July 2022, Health Minister Mark Butler declared the Take Home Naloxone (THN) program's national rollout could prevent hundreds of deaths across the country. "I'm really pleased that we're going ...
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New U.S. Overdose Death Numbers Show 'Sustained' Decline
After decades of battling the opioid epidemic, U.S. health officials reported Wednesday that overdose deaths have now ...
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Drug Incompatibility Chemistry
Purpose: The chemical interactions that cause drug incompatibility in solutions, with emphasis on the acid-base and ionized-nonionized forms of organic, weak, electrolyte drugs, are examined ...