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🧵NHRC's Director of Capacity Building & Community Mobilization, Mike Selick, spoke w/ @rollingstone.com about the nature of the dangerous, unpredictable #DrugSupply that has caused yet another new substance to enter the market. Regardless of which drug is the... bit.ly/CychlorphineInDrugSupply

bit.lyWhat Is Cychlorphine, a New Kind of Drug Taking Over the Illegal Market at an 'Exponential Rate'?The potent synthetic opioid is part of a new class of drugs, called "orphines," that are causing alarm.
National Harm Reduction Coalition
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latest to enter the supply because of the so-called " #WarOnDrugs" & its impacts, #HarmReduction approaches are key to saving lives. “Selick says overdose protocols should always be followed, no matter what: 'Naloxone doesn’t work on an opioid; it works on the receptors of the opioids by...

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blocking them. When [officials] say things like naloxone doesn’t work, it makes people more likely to do nothing.'" The story continued, "Without a way to test substances for cychlorphine, Selick says people who use drugs should keep Narcan on hand and employ harm reduction practices like...

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staggered use: Avoiding using at the exact same time so at least one person stays unimpaired and can monitor others for overdose. Along with naloxone, rescue breathing and airway management — emergency life-support actions used to restore oxygen and clear blocked passages when...

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