On June 18, a news report was released by Huntsville, Alabama’s WHNT 19 News claiming a deputy had overdosed on fentanyl while searching a suspect. After searching a suspect’s pockets, the deputy allegedly caused a powder containing fentanyl to fly up into his face, where he inadvertently inhaled it, causing an overdose. In the online […]
On Wednesday, July 22, an Ashley Nichole Pulliam, William Keith Gary, Jr., and Juan Francisco Esquivel were each charged by the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Department with one count of Possession of a Schedule III Controlled Substance … for possessing naloxone. 39 people in total were arrested. Pulliam, Gary, and Esquivel were each given 12 charges
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I live in Northwest Tennessee, also known as Region 6N by the state (at least as far as Regional Overdose Prevention Specialist jurisdiction is concerned), a nine-county region home to about 254,000 people. 2014 — that’s when I moved here. It’s also when I picked up opioids as my drug of choice. I’ve been using
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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