#OverDose

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ Meantime, overdose death figures are coming in for 2020. They are horrific. Maricopa County (Phoenix), had at least 700 more deaths in 2020 than 2019, with 550 more to

Change the Face of Addiction

ChangetheFaceAB

The #Alberta model. Works best when you don’t keep score.Release #overdose data for Q2 @jasonluan88.#ABLeg #ABpoli https://twitter.com/jennybeeanz1/status/1287538414561026050 The #AlbertaModel; works best when you don’t keep score.Last

National Harm Reduction Coalition

HarmReduction

We recently had the pleasure of speaking w/ @DOPEproject team about what to do & say after you've used naloxone to reverse an overdose from opioids. A medical emergency like

J.J. McCullough

JJ_McCullough

I've been to downtown Vancouver every day this week and every time, no matter the neighborhood, I've seen people shooting up, passed out, or in a state. Needles and other

Patrick Strudwick

PatrickStrud

Breaking: GHB should be reclassified as a class B drug, the gov's drugs advisers have said. A long time coming. I've spent 5 yrs investigating this awful drug. It formed

Taliesin Magboo Cahill

tmc_RN

Fun friday fact about opioid overdoses: many people think that 'mild' overdoses are the ones where we 'just' give oxygen, and the severity of an overdose can be judged by

Travis Rieder

TNREthx

I caught a snippet of this on @NPR this morning, and was immediately disappointed. This sort of framing is irresponsible. Here’s the hook: the pandemic is causing a rise in

Tai Huynh

taimhuynh

Unlike COVID-19, the overdose crisis has no end in sight. Based on a graphic I made in 2018, updated in 2019. Wasn’t planning on updating it this year until a

Zoe McElligott

nanopharmNC

Still thinking about that horrible PI and her horrible naloxone paper...just in case people were unaware, no one wants to take naloxone. It is going to feel extremely horrible, shitty

Megan Ranney MD MPH 🗽

meganranney

Can we talk about the knock-on effects of #COVID19, yet?Provisional counts for drug overdose deaths in the US show an 18% increase - primarily #opioid-related - from May 2019-May 2020...

Drew Holden

DrewHolden360

This is perhaps the most pernicious idea about lockdowns: that there are no real consequences. For many well-to-do folks like Rachel, it’s just an extended work-from-home period.That isn’t the experience

Margot Sanger-Katz

sangerkatz

Since Covid arrived, 179,000 more Americans have died than would in a normal year. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/05/us/coronavirus-death-toll-us.html @DeniseDSLu @jshkatz Deaths are now at least 10% higher than normal in most

Elaine Hyshka

ehyshka

Yesterday, Alberta's premier announced 904 opioid overdose deaths from Jan. to Oct. 2020 (66% increase in the death rate y/y). He attributed this increase to CERB and reduced treatment access.

Emma Woodhouse 😁

EWoodhouse7

Reposting updated data on Drug Overdose deaths from Jan-July, 2015-2020*. Please read my threaded explanation before commenting or posing questions/reactions. Feedback welcome*2020 data are provisional1/12 Data are from two monthly-count

Drug Policy Alliance

DrugPolicyOrg

New research paper on overdose risk and social determinants of health affirms what we've been saying all along: Criminalization increases overdose risk! We MUST decriminalize drugs to save lives and

Joseph Friedman

JosephRFriedman

New evidence that COVID-19 may be drastically exacerbating the US opioid crisis:"Overdose-Related Cardiac Arrests Observed by Emergency Medical Services During the US COVID-19 Epidemic"w/ @LeoBeletsky, available for free in @JAMAP

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