In a significant move to safeguard the well-being of middle and high school students across California, Governor Newsom has signed a vital piece of legislation, SB 10, known as Melanie's Law. This new law mandates measures to prevent and respond to fentanyl overdoses in the youth population. Governor Newsom made this announcement last Friday. Fentanyl,
In 2021, mother-of-four Krystal Talavera was found face down in her kitchen. It was Father's Day when she collapsed beside her one-year-old son and an open bag of 'Space Dust,' a product made from Kratom. What are Space Dust and Kratom? Space Dust is a synthetic drug created from Kratom. It is sold at various
Medication-Assisted Treatment, also known as MAT, is considered the golden standard in treatment for opioid addiction. The federal government has encouraged the use of MAT, including Suboxone, Sublocade, and Methadone, in people with opioid use disorder (OUD). Yet studies show that doctors who work in the Emergency Room are reluctant to supply people with OUD
A research study recently released by NIDA (the National Institute on Drug Abuse) found that improvised medical devices that deliver naloxone intranasally are significantly less effective when it comes to administering high enough doses of the opioid-antagonist drug. Narcan injections and FDA-approved nasal naloxone, the research shows, tend to apply the correct dosages correctly more
Gray death is a drug that has been making its rounds on the street from the East Coast to the Midwest, and unfortunately, more overdose cases are on the rise due to this deadly street drug. Considered to be one of the deadliest drugs to ever hit the streets in the US, experts describe its
Prison systems all over the world have to deal with illicit drug use, but smuggling has become even easier with the variety of drugs that have become available on the street. This made prisons an ideal place for drug dealers to distribute the synthetic drug Spice. Originally marketed over the counter as a “synthetic cannabinoid”,
Teleflex Medical, the manufacturer of the nasal naloxone kits used by first responders and others nationwide to reverse overdoses from heroin and prescription painkillers, has issued a nationwide recall. Why is the Nasal Naloxone Kit Under Recall? The recall, announced earlier this week, affects the atomizers only, which are used to administer the drug as
