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Pentagon watchdog to evaluate US military’s boat strikes in Latin America

By BEN FINLEY WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon watchdog will evaluate whether the U.S. military followed an established…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #boats #CaribbeanSea #drugcartels #JointTargetingCycle #Latinamerica #lawmakers #military #overdoses #pacificocean #pentagon #Strikes #targetingframework #watchdog
https://www.europesays.com/3003560/

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

Good Question: How effective is Monroe County’s naloxone box program?

Updates on local, state and national News are detailed by the News10NBC Morning Team, along with traffic, sports…
#NewsBeep #News #Medication #CA #Canada #GoodQuestion #Health #MonroeCounty #Naloxoneboxprogram #Narcan #overdoses
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/527381/

Good Question: How effective is Monroe County’s naloxone box program?

Updates on local, state and national News are detailed by the News10NBC Morning Team, along with traffic, sports…
#NewsBeep #News #Medication #GoodQuestion #Health #MonroeCounty #Naloxoneboxprogram #narcan #overdoses #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/468176/

Good Question: How effective is Monroe County’s naloxone box program?

Updates on local, state and national News are detailed by the News10NBC Morning Team, along with traffic, sports…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Medication #GoodQuestion #Health #MonroeCounty #Naloxoneboxprogram #Narcan #Overdoses
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/515455/

Good Question: How effective is Monroe County’s naloxone box program?

Updates on local, state and national News are detailed by the News10NBC Morning Team, along with traffic, sports…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Medication #GoodQuestion #Health #MonroeCounty #Naloxoneboxprogram #Narcan #Overdoses
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/515455/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/378024/ Good Question: How effective is Monroe County’s naloxone box program? #Éire #GoodQuestion #Health #IE #Ireland #Medication #MonroeCounty #NaloxoneBoxProgram #Narcan #overdoses

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

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

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

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

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

Oh, fantastic! 🎉 Deaths are down because the supply chain is feeling 'shocked'—probably from watching too many Netflix dramas. Meanwhile, the web page insists you enable #JavaScript, as if stopping #overdoses depends on your browser settings. 🙄
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/01/08/why-overdose-deaths-are-falling-in-america #DeathsDown #SupplyChain #Shocked #NetflixDramas #HackerNews #ngated

Oh, fantastic! 🎉 Deaths are down because the supply chain is feeling 'shocked'—probably from watching too many Netflix dramas. Meanwhile, the web page insists you enable #JavaScript, as if stopping #overdoses depends on your browser settings. 🙄
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/01/08/why-overdose-deaths-are-falling-in-america #DeathsDown #SupplyChain #Shocked #NetflixDramas #HackerNews #ngated

Oh, fantastic! 🎉 Deaths are down because the supply chain is feeling 'shocked'—probably from watching too many Netflix dramas. Meanwhile, the web page insists you enable #JavaScript, as if stopping #overdoses depends on your browser settings. 🙄
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/01/08/why-overdose-deaths-are-falling-in-america #DeathsDown #SupplyChain #Shocked #NetflixDramas #HackerNews #ngated

Oh, fantastic! 🎉 Deaths are down because the supply chain is feeling 'shocked'—probably from watching too many Netflix dramas. Meanwhile, the web page insists you enable #JavaScript, as if stopping #overdoses depends on your browser settings. 🙄
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/01/08/why-overdose-deaths-are-falling-in-america #DeathsDown #SupplyChain #Shocked #NetflixDramas #HackerNews #ngated

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

#Fentanyl #Overdoses #USPolitics
Le Congrès a adopté un projet de loi renforçant les sanctions contre le trafic de fentanyl. Les overdoses continuent de faire des ravages aux États-Unis. Quelles conséquences ? Lisez l'article !
https://www.monassurancefacile.com/actualite/congres-americain-renforce-sanctions-penales-contre-trafic-fentanyl

#Overdoses Declined in 2024 but Progress Is at Risk

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fighting-a-crisis/202505/overdoses-declined-in-2024-but-progress-is-at-risk

This new feature is months in the making, and it's just the beginning of our reporting on how these opioid settlement funds are flowing through cities and towns ...

https://horizonmass.news/2025/04/15/mass-municipalities-are-sitting-on-millions-meant-to-mitigate-the-opioid-scourge

#opioids #mapoli #OpioidSettlement #fentanyl #overdoses

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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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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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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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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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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#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

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

The dark side of #GHB: This is what the #sex and #party #drug is doing to the #UK's #LGBTQ #community.

A lack of #awareness and #education paired with outdated #nightlife #practices is resulting in a growing number of LGBTQ people #dying from accidental GHB #overdoses. #JordanPage #investigates how #lives can be #saved

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Entertainment #NightLife #DrugAbuse #Overdoses

https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/ghb-sex-party-drug-londons-lgbtq-community-b1198129.html

"The data suggests that some of the tools used to combat #opioidoverdoses, such as naloxone, the #overdose-reversing medication, were having a significant impact. But researchers and federal and state health officials have puzzled over the exact reasons for the decrease, including why #overdoses have fallen so much in recent months.

The pace of the decline “is such an anomaly in the last 20 years”."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/us/politics/drug-overdose-deaths-decrease.html?unlocked_article_code=1.M04.WLQJ.VJ0PXyuuZB3x&smid=url-share

@mpjgregoire The UCP only seems committed to one of those things, perhaps because they're privatizing treatment and a revolving door program benefits those companies. This is not to mention the issues surrounding forced treatment into the hands of private companies who then have direct access to personal data of vulnerable people.

#abpoli #bcpoli #CanPol #cdnpoli
#drugs #overdoses

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@mpjgregoire Over the last year Alberta has poured resources into treatment and that is having an effect but we could be doing a lot better if treatment and SCS were both well supported. This crisis isn't going to be solved by single solutions and I'd say we need SCS, treatment, and social supports so that people exiting treatment aren't ending up repeatedly coming back.

#abpoli #bcpoli #CanPol #cdnpoli
#drugs #overdoses

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@mpjgregoire This is a cherry picked statistic. More useful is looking back over the last five years. In 2019 the UCP in Alberta reduced funding to supervised consumption sites and since then two big ones have closed completely. That's also the time period where Alberta's overdose death rate spiked. By comparison, during the same time frame BC basically held the line on OD deaths.

#abpoli #bcpoli #CanPol #cdnpoli
#drugs #overdoses

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Between April 2023 and April 2024, overdose deaths declined by about 10 percent nationally to roughly 101,000, according to preliminary data published recently by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That amounted to the largest decrease on record, according to the Biden administration. Nonfatal overdoses are also down more than 10 percent.
#USpoli #PublicHealth #overdoses #addiction
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/us/politics/drug-overdose-deaths-decrease.html

Under this concept, some police would be replaced w/trained #SocialWorkers or specialized response teams in an effort to let police focus on violent #crime, not drug #overdoses, #MentalHealth events or #homelessness. The theory is that police would be better positioned to deal w/ #rapes [#Trump] & #murders if they didn’t have to deal w/ other #social ills that often lead to community confrontations w/ untrained police.

#PoliceViolence #SystemicRacism
#FactCheck #TrumpLies
#HarrisWalz2024

But then city leaders became preoccupied w/other crises, including #GunViolence & the #pandemic. Many of those efforts to fight overdoses stalled….

Health ofcls began publicly sharing less #data. City Council members rarely addressed or inquired about the growing number of #overdoses. The fact that…[it had become]…so much worse…was NOT KNOWN to the mayor, the deputy mayor…or multiple council members until they were recently shown data compiled by Times/Banner reporters….

#Fentanyl #Addiction

#BritishColumbia #HealthAuthority on #VancouverIsland is #testing new #technology inside #washrooms to help #SaveLives of people using #IllicitDrugs .
#IslandHealth has installed #MotionDetecting #sensors that track how long a person has occupied the bathroom & whether they are moving at six locations which have been identified as #HighRisk spaces for #DrugPoisoning .

https://globalnews.ca/news/9561362/island-health-overdose-detector-trial/amp/

#VIHA #OpiodCrisis #StopTheStigma #HelpDontJudge #overdoses #VictoriaBC #yyj #vanisle #VancouverIsland

Why Are #WomenDying From #Opioid #Overdoses At #Unprecedented Rates? 😶

Why #women are now #bearing the #brunt of the #epidemic.

https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a46867416/women-opioid-epidemic-overdose-deaths/