#overdoses — Public Fediverse posts

Hollywood Reporter: Clavicular Hospitalized After Suspected Overdose While on Livestream. “Earlier in the day, Clavicular was livestreaming on Kick when it abruptly cut off, sparking concern among fans. Video was later shared on X of the streamer being carried by several people to a black car as an ambulance arrived at the scene.”

Оказывается, нью-йоркский блогер Брайан Феррари каждый год составляет гей-список умерших за минувший год порноактёров-мейлов. В тексте, посвящённым смертям прошлого года 23 имени, средний медианный возраст умерших 35 лет: https://brianferrarinyc.com/2025/07/06/gay-porn-stars-we-lost-so-far-in-2025/ #BrianFerrari #corpses #queerculture #pornindustry #sexworkers #lists #overdoses #suicide

Оказывается, нью-йоркский блогер Брайан Феррари каждый год составляет гей-список умерших за минувший год порноактёров-мейлов. В тексте, посвящённым смертям прошлого года 23 имени, средний медианный возраст умерших 35 лет: https://brianferrarinyc.com/2025/07/06/gay-porn-stars-we-lost-so-far-in-2025/ #BrianFerrari #corpses #queerculture #pornindustry #sexworkers #lists #overdoses #suicide

Оказывается, нью-йоркский блогер Брайан Феррари каждый год составляет гей-список умерших за минувший год порноактёров-мейлов. В посте, посвящённым смертям прошлого года 23 имени, средний медианный возраст умерших 35 лет: https://brianferrarinyc.com/2025/07/06/gay-porn-stars-we-lost-so-far-in-2025/ #BrianFerrari #corpses #queerculture #pornindustry #sexworkers #lists #overdoses #suicide

RE: https://flipboard.com/@theatlantic/all-stories-jtjms0buz/-/a-zS9Pw309QzqgybMI5k_tlQ%3Aa%3A3199527-%2F0

Everyone's pleased by the drop in overdose deaths, and it's tempting to attribute the change to one's preferred policy: mandatory treatment, decriminalisation, increased naloxone availability. But there's some evidence the real cause is decreased #fentanyl supply.

#drugs #narcotics #overdoses

JIC anyone has deluded themselves into believing his “#immigration” crackdown, or #ExtraJudicialKilings in the #Caribbean / #Pacific are actually about “#drugs” getting into the #US, or US citizens dying of #overdoses or #addiction … WAKE UP!

#Trump #Pardons #Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case

Trump said he would pardon #JuanOrlandoHernández, who prosecutors said partnered with #cocaine traffickers as Honduras’s president & is serving a 45-yr sentence.

#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/world/americas/trump-pardon-honduras-hernandez.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

WRAL: “Every life is worth saving”: How a UNC researcher’s website is connecting communities to naloxone. “Delesha Carpenter began her career as a researcher focused on pediatrics. A little over seven years ago, her path took an unexpected turn following the deaths of two close friends…. The website features an interactive map of all 100 North Carolina counties, rating them based on the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/30/every-life-is-worth-saving-how-a-unc-researchers-website-is-connecting-communities-to-naloxone-wral/

Ehrlich gesagt wären die #USA auch ohne den ganzen #Faschismus mächtig am Arsch.

Erst ham'se ihre #Bevölkerung en mass auf #Opioide gehookt & dann über nacht einfach fallen gelassen. Und "große Überraschung" - die Leute haben sich ihren Stoff woanders besorgt

"#Overdoses involving #SyntheticOpioids, primarily #Fentanyl, are the leading cause of U.S. #deaths in people ages eighteen to forty-five."

Nun gibts natürlich Prohibitions - #Kriminalität der übelsten Sorte.

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/fentanyl-and-us-opioid-epidemic

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The single worst #medical job I ever had involved no hands-on patient care at all.

Now, I experienced some very bad days as a #military #medic, and more as a #civilian #EMT. I worked on #ambulances, in #emergency #departments, and in safety net #clinics. I saw suffering on a scale I had never even imagined before. Of course I did my best to relieve that suffering—both because it was my job, and because I’m a decent human being—but a lot of the time I just couldn’t, and neither could anyone else. I celebrated my successes and mourned my failures. The memory of the former sustains me to this day, but the accumulation of the latter did lasting damage to the inside of my head. Practically anyone who’s ever been in the biz can say the same.

But all the #gunshots and car #crashes and #overdoses and #child #abuse cases and long, steady descents into the grave, over the course of years, didn’t burn me out like two months in a #cardiology practice.

You may wonder why. Okay, cardiology patients are generally pretty sick: you don’t get assigned a #cardiologist, rather than having your primary care provider take care of it, unless your #heart’s in bad shape. Even so, could it really be worse than all the above? After all, cardiology offices tend to be clean, well-lit, organized places. Patients have appointments. Fairly routine care, and if there’s really bad news, it’s the #physicians who have to give it—which is not the situation in #emergency #medicine, let me tell you.

Well, it did, and here’s the reason. Like I said, I wasn’t taking care of patients directly. My interaction with them was brief, in exam rooms after they’d already been checked in and seen by their providers, and I never touched them. It was all paperwork.

My job was to be their advocate with the #insurance companies. I did most of my work in an office, with a comfy chair and a phone and a coffee cup close at hand. The job was actually supposed to be an #RN position, but I impressed them enough at the interview to get it, and I got paid more for it than any other medical job I had before or since.

I read their #charts and #prescriptions, studied insurance claims, and—now we come to the crux of it—looked over the reasons those claims were denied. Sometimes very elaborate reasons, with lengthy justifications. Other times the feedback from the insurance companies was basically just “NO.”

And then I called those companies, and worked my way up through the phone tree until I got someone on the line with some actual decision-making authority, and explained to them in great detail why they should approve a particular medication or procedure that would keep our patients from dying.

I succeeded … maybe a quarter of the time? Probably less. Occasionally the failures weren’t complete: I couldn’t get them to approve whatever the cardiologist had recommended, but I could at least squeeze something out of them. Something that would keep our patients, the people entrusting us with their lives, going for a little while longer. Some sliver of hope for the patients and their families. Some human connection that reminded the people on the other end of the line that their job wasn’t actually to condemn people to death, at least not on paper.

Usually not. But often enough to keep me there for a little while. The nightmares stayed under control as long as I had a bottle waiting for me when I got home. Now that I think about it, that may have been when my drinking problem got serious, although it would take several more years to fully manifest. Good thing it wasn’t a #hepatology practice, I guess.

A friend’s post dredged this memory up. I was going to leave it as a comment there, but I didn’t want to make it all about me. They have enough of their own problems. Just know, if you’re fighting this particular war right now, I’m with you.

Oh yeah, also? #Vote. Specifically, if you can’t vote for someone who will make it better, at least vote for someone who won’t make it worse. Because it can always get worse.

More than two out of five American adults know someone who has died of an overdose: https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/02/21/massachusetts-brookline-rand-study-grief-opioid-overdose-crisis

#wbur #rand #randcorporation #martharebinger #addiction #drugs #drugpolicy #overdose #overdoses #suicide #health #publichealth

#FDA approves #overdose #reversing #Narcan for sale without #prescription. Move seen as a key strategy to control the US #overdose #crisis, which has been linked to more than 100,000 deaths a year https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-over-counter-naloxone-nasal-spray #OTC #naloxone #opiod #overdoses