Sometimes, I find used syringes littered astray in my small, rural, Tennessean town. Despite widespread sentiments held by residents, drug users aren’t to blame.
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Americans often confuse pharmaceutical fentanyl and its illicit, black-market counterpart. Here are four easy-to-follow examples to help you tell the difference.
These over-the-counter drugs and substances can be used to improve the analgesic and recreational potential of opioids. Always remember to use responsibly, no matter the reason for your opioid use.
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Gas stations, head shops, and music stores are bad places to buy kratom. Why? Find out here.
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What’s probation been like for me? Has it made me a better person? Has it curbed my drug use? Has it done anything good for me, at all?
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We’re all familiar with sensationalized news stories about cannabis, cocaine, and other illicit drugs being adulterated with fentanyl. On the street, however, I’ve yet to cross paths with cannabis or any other drugs that actually are adulterated with fentanyl — outside of heroin and other illicit opioids, of course. I have never used meth, though
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Note: Since the publication of this article, I’ve been made aware of two Syringe Services Programs in West Tennessee. Both are in Memphis — A Betor Way and the Memphis Area Prevention Coalition’s SafePoint. Northwest Tennessee (NWTN) is home to just as many drug users as anywhere else, though not nearly as many — if any — resources that
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We’re in the midst of an opioid epidemic here in the United States. It’s worse here in Northwest Tennessee than most places across the country — not the worst, but it’s certainly not great. There are a few central reasons why opioid use here is so likely to result in overdose, if not death. First
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We’ve heard it — opioid epidemic — plenty of times across news broadcasts, the radio, on billboards, in newspapers, posted by peers on social media, referenced in prose, and everywhere else imaginable. But what is the opioid crisis, exactly? The opioid crisis is the collective body of issues stemming from opioid use that American society
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Humans have used the poppy plant for thousands of years. We won’t be covering the full history of opioids here, so let’s fast forward to 1800. Sometime between 1803 and 1805, a German chemist named Friedrich Sertürner isolated morphine from the other alkaloids that are present in Papaver somniferum, the opium poppy’s scientific name. Some
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