“XYLAZINE, A DEADLY SKIN-ROTTING ZOMBIE DRUG, OFTEN MIXED W FENTANYL, IS ON THE DOORSTEP …ALREADY FUELING A HORRIFIC WAVE OF OVERDOSES.”” America has a history of hysteria over the drug war. From Reefer Madness to the insanity of telling people they could die from just touching fentanyl or that dealers are giving rainbow fentanyl to…
The state Office of the Medical Examiner yesterday released the final overdose deaths numbers for 2022, showing a 4.7% decrease in all overdose deaths and a 5.2% decrease in opioid deaths. This is better news than another increase but is still 5.7% above the 2020 overdose death number and 5.1% above the 2020 number for…
I went home injured a couple weeks ago. This wasn’t the first time I was injured on the job, but the first time I couldn’t finish a shift. How it happened is embarrassing. I coughed and didn’t splint myself properly. I pulled a muscle in my lower back on the left side. I couldn’t bend…
In this post, I will explain how opioids affect the brain, what steps you should take to reverse an overdose, how naloxone works and where it can be obtained, and what to do in the immediate aftermath of overdose. How Opioids Kill Opioids kill by shutting down our breathing or slowing it to a rate…
The third and deadliest wave of the opioid epidemic began in 2013 with the increasing adulteration of the heroin supply with illegally produced fentanyl. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid manufactured in laboratories. Fentanyl was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 1968. It is a pain killer, with a rapid onset and a…