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A 37% drop in overdose deaths from drugs mixed with opioids – fentanyl included

Categories Technology

Ketamine lozenges are made at a compounding pharmacy.

Ultra-Low-Dose Ketamine Shows Promise in Easing Opioid Withdrawal Symptoms

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

table top of pills

Alarming Surge in Fentanyl Pill Seizures Underscores Urgent Need for Public Health Response

Categories Health, Social Sciences

Pills and a mound of white powder

Dark web fentanyl-selling operations have grown rapidly, offer steep discounts

Categories Health, Social Sciences

A simplified schema of the four waves of the US overdose mortality crisis. Waves 1 and 2 include deaths involving commonly prescribed opioids, and heroin, respectively, but excluding fentanyl co-involved deaths. Wave 3 and Wave 4 show fentanyl deaths not involving, and involving, stimulants respectively as distinct trends. Data from CDC WONDER.

The fourth wave of the US overdose crisis: fentanyl and stimulants

Categories Health, Social Sciences

CBD (yellow stick structure) interferes with binding of an opioid (green and red) by stabilizing an opioid receptor (gray) in its inactive form.

Marijuana-derived compounds could reverse opioid overdoses

Categories Health

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