Overdose Antidote Naloxone Now Available in California Without a PrescriptionPrescription DrugsBy Promises AustinJune 14, 2015Naloxone, known as the overdose antidote, is a drug that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose and is now available in California without a prescription. The hope is that the expanded access to the drug will save more lives in the state. Thousands of opioid drug abusers and addicts die every year in…
Inhaling of Compressed Air Causing More Deaths in Washington StateOther AddictionsBy Promises AustinMay 29, 2015Small but significant numbers of people will die after consuming one of the makeshift drugs known as inhalants, according to recent findings from a group of American researchers. Inhalants are a broad range of household and industrial substances capable of producing mind-altering effects. In a study published in January 2015 in The American Journal of…
Fatal Heroin Overdoses Have DoubledHeroinBy Promises AustinNovember 22, 2014Heroin and prescription opioid medications have common origins in naturally occurring substances found in the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum). Among other things, this means that both heroin and prescription opioids are capable of producing fatal opioid overdoses. In a report issued in October 2014 in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, researchers from the federal…
