Wednesday, October 18, 2017

People Are Dying Because of Ignorance, not Because of Opioids

 By Carl L. Hart at Scientific American

 ... "It is certainly possible to die from an overdose of an opioid alone, but this accounts for a minority of the thousands of opioid-related deaths. Many are caused when people combine an opioid with another sedative (such as alcohol), an antihistamine (such as promethazine) or a benzodiazepine (such as Xanax or Klonopin). People are not dying because of opioids; they are dying because of ignorance." ...

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