opioids

Our resident chemist, Dr. Josh Bloom, has followed the opioid crisis for several years. He was the first to raise the alarm that opioid overdoses and deaths were being driven largely by fentanyl, not Vicodin or other prescription pills.

Anyone in the mood for some confusion? If so, keep reading. Below are some random quotes I stumbled across while doing a Google news search of the term "synthetic opioids." It didn't take long.

"I cut it twice and it's still too short" is an old carpenter's joke about persistence coupled with incompetence. It's a pretty good joke.

Heroin, not oxycodone or hydrocodone, is by far the most dangerous opiate on the street. But technically, it isn't dangerous at all. And it's not necessarily a "street" drug because It can be legal. Confused?

It hasn't been a good year for U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams.

Just about any drug can be made to look bad, especially when its risks are considered in the absence of its benefits.

As everyone knows, local and state governments are suing the pharmaceutical companies purportedly so that the epidemic these companies started can be finally ended, Also, the companies will have to pay for past damages done and – most of all

For people in pain, the following history is familiar.  After a year of political maneuvering and under-the-table influence peddling, the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) at CDC issued a “guideline” in March 2016, for

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In 2016 I testified at an FDA hearing about the "opioid crisis," which was starting to make its way into the news in a big way.