Stories about accidental overdose deaths involving fentanyl are becoming increasingly common. Home test kits and a readily available nasal spray could help save lives, writes AbcarianLAT. (via latimesopinion)
Stories about accidental overdose deaths involving fentanyl are becoming increasingly common.
Fentanyl, which is cheap to produce and far more powerful than heroin, can be made to look like black tar or China white heroin, cocaine or crystal meth. It can be pressed into pills and appear to be OxyContin, Xanax or Valium. The musician“If someone tells me they are on heroin,” Chung told me, “I assume until proven otherwise that they are on fentanyl. After years of using, people become confident— ‘Hey, I know what black tar heroin looks like’ — and you test it and it’s not.
Instead of demanding abstinence, Chung helps his patients figure out how to be safer and healthier, and of course, find a path to sobriety if that’s what they are seeking.Thursday evening, I had a long conversation with one of his patients, Zachary, 31, who asked to be identified only by his first name, to protect his career.Zachary’s addiction trajectory is pretty typical. In his late teens, he began using prescription opioids like Vicodin and anti-anxiety drugs like Xanax.
Zachary told me he has lost count of how many times he has overdosed and been revived with Narcan; he has used it to revive friends many times.and shields anyone who administers it from liability. It’s available at most CVS pharmacies.In his mid-20s, he had already spent four years on probation ordered by drug court, though he’d never really stopped shooting heroin and cocaine. One day, he and his girlfriend scored what they thought was heroin.
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