I testified before the Connecticut Legislature’s Public Health Committee on February 21, 2025 in support of a bill to create an overdose prevention center pilot program in our state. The bill is sponsored by Senator Saud Anwar, a physician and great friend of harm reduction. Here is a link to the text of the bill:…
Month: February 2025
The Pitt and Freedom House
Medical drama TV doesn’t get any better than The Pitt. This show (on Max) impresses me so much I am compelled to post again about it. Not only is it getting the medicine right, it gets the human drama right, and it honors health care workers with sentiment, not sentimentality. In other words, the emotions…
OPVEE and Opioid Epidemic Opportunists
A pharmaceutical company is apparently targeting police departments to get them to carry OPVEE (nalfemene), a long-acting opioid antagonist that the two top toxicology organizations in the country say has significant risks and has not been studied in actual settings. In an article by New England Public Media, Health experts alarmed at new overdose drug…
OTC Naloxone Availability
My daughter Zoey had to do 25 hours of volunteer time for her school so I hooked her up with the local harm reduction drop in center, where she helped put together safe drug use kits as well as naloxone rescue kits. Some days she sat outside the bathroom door and monitored the three-minute clock…