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The COVID-19 pandemic completely changed the drug epidemic. Stay-at-home and quarantine orders cut off thousands of people struggling with addiction from vital services and lifesaving medications.
Individuals who have a substance use disorder face a myriad of triggers that have only been heightened by the Covid-19 pandemic.
An increase in drug poisoning deaths has reinvigorated suspicions of fentanyl-contaminated cannabis. Is cannabis the next drug to fall victim to the fentanyl poisoning crisis?
Author David Pose details his experience with opioid use disorder and how medication saved his life. He calls for science to be the treatment basis in addiction treatment.
Author David Pose explains how abstinence was not a treatment option while dealing with his opioid use disorder and that the language surrounding the use of medication for OUD needs to change.