“Doctors, nurses, pharmacy technicians (and) pharmacists are often in scenarios where they’re around fentanyl, where they may touch it or be in a room with it, and thankfully they’re never harmed.”
According to Marino, there's nothat requires a person"quit cold turkey." Instead, that idea can actually be counterproductive.
"Methadone and buprenorphine would be two first-line treatments," Wakeman said." is the only treatment that's been shown to reduce mortality, is associated with a higher likelihood of remission or recovery, of not dying from an overdose or other causes." This contamination, she said, can lead to a higher risk of overdose death, because people may not have the necessary tolerance to handle the substance.
“This idea that we make naloxone more accessible, people are just going to use drugs and you’re sort of ‘enabling them’ ... is reminiscent of conversations around seatbelts,” Wakeman explained.
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